City Of Walnut Ridge

City of Walnut Ridge, through its Walnut Ridge Regional Airport division, operates as a federal contractor and grant recipient providing aviation turbine fuel supply to the Defense Logistics Agency Energy and operating a public-use regional airport facility that receives infrastructure grants from the Federal Aviation Administration. The entity is a U.S. local government organization—a municipally owned airport authority in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas—competing in full-and-open federal procurements without set-aside designations.

Walnut Ridge Regional Airport's federal footprint divides sharply between two business lines. The dominant line is aviation fuel supply: the airport holds multiple indefinite delivery contracts with DLA Energy for jet fuel (Aviation Turbine Fuel, Grade Jet A) provision, operating under NAICS 221320 (Petroleum Refineries) and PSC Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base. The airport supplied fuel through 750 delivery orders to DLA Energy between 2021 and 2023, with combined potential value of $2.9 million and obligated dollars of $6.6 million. Representative fuel-supply awards include a $4,447.05 delivery order (June 2023), a $2,634.10 delivery order (November 2022), and a $2,028.15 delivery order (May 2022), all fixed-price contracts with economic price adjustment terms. The three largest parent vehicles are Indefinite Delivery Contract SP060015D0082 (366 task orders, $701 thousand), SPE60719D0021 (349 task orders, $377 thousand), and SP060011D0085 (31 task orders, $495 thousand). All DLA Energy awards are to the airport division directly as prime contractor, with no subcontractor involvement.

The secondary business line is airport infrastructure development funded through Federal Aviation Administration grants. Since 2021, the airport has been recipient of eight federal project grants totaling roughly $1.3 million under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117), administered by the FAA Southwestern Region. Recent representative grants include $307,092.63 (May 2026, airfield drainage reconstruction through 2030), $177,156.84 (May 2026, associated airfield drainage grant through 2030), $437,914.74 (July 2025, taxiway lighting reconstruction through 2029), and $369,300 (July 2025, associated taxiway lighting grant through 2029). An earlier American Rescue Plan Act grant (November 2021) provided pandemic economic relief funding. All FAA grants fund discrete infrastructure projects—runway lighting, taxiway lighting, and airfield drainage systems—with completion dates between 2026 and 2030. The airport also received an FAA grant in 2022 for design-phase runway lighting reconstruction.

The airport competes entirely in full-and-open federal procurements with no set-aside restrictions. DLA Energy awards dominate both award count and dollar value—750 of 773 total awards. Customer concentration is extreme: DLA Energy accounts for 100% of contract awards (all delivery orders for fuel supply), while the FAA Southwestern Region accounts for 13 grants (all infrastructure). This concentration reflects a single core contracting relationship with DLA Energy for recurring fuel orders, paired with episodic federal grants for facility improvements tied to capital projects. The organization holds no parent contract vehicles (GWACs, BPAs, or agency IDIQs) in its own name; it operates as a prime awardee under DLA Energy IDCs and as a direct grant recipient from the FAA. Award activity peaked in 2022 (128 awards) driven by the volume of small-dollar DLA Energy delivery orders, then declined sharply in 2023 and beyond as fuel-supply orders appear to have concluded or transitioned.