County Of Converse

County of Converse, operating through its Clerk's office in Douglas, Wyoming, is a U.S. local government entity and county airport authority that serves as a prime recipient of federal grants for infrastructure development and workforce training, with subordinate sub-recipient status on federal grants flowing through state agencies. The county does not hold federal contracts; its federal footprint consists entirely of grant awards and sub-awards spanning transportation, economic development, emergency management, and public health programs.

County of Converse's grant portfolio centers on three capability domains: airport infrastructure modernization at Douglas Municipal Airport, regional economic development and workforce training, and emergency-management and public-health programming. Concrete named work includes a $3.877 million Federal Aviation Administration Airport Improvement Program grant (CFDA 20.106) awarded July 2023 for runway rehabilitation and taxiway reconfiguration at Douglas Municipal Airport, with completion scheduled for July 2027; a $1.285 million FAA Airport Improvement Program grant (CFDA 20.106) awarded August 2022 for design and initial construction phases of the same runway and taxiway project; a $3.736 million Economic Development Administration project grant (awarded September 2023, completion February 2027) for construction of a wood-technology lab building addition at Eastern Wyoming College in Douglas to support workforce training and economic recovery in the coal-impacted region; and a $320 thousand Federal Highway Administration Safe Streets and Roads for All planning grant (CFDA 20.939) awarded February 2026 for comprehensive safety action planning to prevent roadway fatalities and serious injuries across all road users.

Customer concentration is tight. The top five funding agencies account for 69% of recent awards, with the Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration Northwest Mountain Region leading (9 awards), followed by the Federal Highway Administration (6 awards), the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R2-Rocky Mountain Region (4 awards), the FAA's headquarters-level office (4 awards), and the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (4 awards). The county also receives federal pass-through sub-awards from the State of Wyoming (Department of Transportation, Office of Statelands, Department of Health) and from private prime grantees, accounting for 59% of the total award count. Sub-awards fund dust suppression, low-cost rural road safety improvements, wildland-urban interface fuels reduction, emergency-management payroll and training, and public-health program activities including immunization and epidemic response.

Activity has remained flat to modest over the past five years — three awards in 2022 and 2023, five in 2024, and six in each of 2025 and 2026 — with the most recent award (sub-award, June 2026) for emergency-management payroll. Combined obligated dollars across all awards total $15.5 million against a nominal combined potential value of $20 thousand, indicating that the potential-value figures in the source are administrative artifacts rather than meaningful ceiling indicators for a government entity managing grant pass-through. The county operates as a subordinate player in state and regional federal grant pipelines rather than as an independent federal vendor.