County Of Oswego

County Of Oswego, a New York municipal government entity headquartered in Fulton, New York, receives federal grants as a prime recipient for airport infrastructure rehabilitation and equipment modernization under the Federal Aviation Administration's Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106). The county operates exclusively as a grant recipient — no contracts, no subcontracting — and competes in the full-and-open space with no set-aside designations applicable to government entities.

The county's federal footprint is narrow and specialized. All 31 awards in the recent pipeline come from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, specifically the FAA Eastern Region. Grant work centers on infrastructure at the Fulton, New York airport and related municipal airport facilities, with scope spanning runway and taxiway rehabilitation, runway and taxiway lighting reconstruction, apron lighting reconstruction, precision approach path indicator system reconstruction, airfield signage and markings, airport rotating beacon replacement, and snow removal equipment acquisition and reconstruction. Recent representative grants include a $1,655,300 project grant awarded September 9, 2024 for taxiway lighting reconstruction and taxiway pavement rehabilitation (final construction phase, completion date September 8, 2028); a $540,789.47 project grant awarded August 18, 2025 for snow removal equipment reconstruction including a front-end loader with thirty-foot reversible plow (completion date August 17, 2029); and a $126,115.79 project grant awarded July 30, 2026 for snow removal equipment reconstruction (completion date July 29, 2030). The county also received a $166,316.67 project grant in September 2023 for acquisition of two zero-emission vehicles for airports in air quality non-attainment areas, funded under the Airport Improvement Program, COVID-19 Airports Programs, and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Programs.

Activity has been episodic — three awards in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 — with combined obligated dollars across the full award history at $20.5 million. Award completions cluster in 2026, 2028, and 2029, representing the design and construction phases of multi-year airport infrastructure projects. The county operates as the single municipal sponsor managing federal airport grants for the Fulton area and serves no other federal customers or agencies.