Rosebud County

Rosebud County, a Montana-based local government entity operating as Rosebud County Court Clerk, serves as the federal grant recipient for airport infrastructure and public-health projects administered by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and state pass-through grantees. The vendor holds no federal contracts; all federal activity derives from grant awards (75% as prime recipient, 25% as sub-recipient) under the Airport Improvement Program and health-related federal grant programs flowing through Montana state agencies.

Rosebud County's federal footprint is dominated by FAA Airport Improvement Program grants (CFDA 20.106 and 20.116) for the Forsyth and Colstrip airport facilities in eastern Montana. Between 2021 and 2026, the county received 20 grants directly from the FAA's Northwest Mountain Region for runway, taxiway, and apron pavement rehabilitation; snow removal equipment acquisition; automated weather observation system installation and design; rotating beacon rehabilitation; and single-pump fuel farm construction. Representative prime grant work includes a $372,000 award (July 22, 2026) to acquire five types of snow removal equipment for Colstrip airport through July 2030; a $262,152.63 award (September 3, 2025) to reseal and resurface runway 5,359 feet, multiple taxiways, and two aprons at the Forsyth nonprimary airport through September 2029; and a $294,016.84 award (September 3, 2025) to rehabilitate the Colstrip airport rotating beacon and resurface runway 6/24 and taxiway pavement through September 2029. The county also received American Rescue Plan Act pandemic relief grants ($353,000 combined) in December 2021 for both airports to fund operations, personnel, sanitization, and debt service through 2025.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the FAA's Northwest Mountain Region, which accounts for 32 of the 44 awards in the source portfolio. The Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration as an agency family represents 86% of recent awards. The county also participates as a sub-recipient in public-health and law-enforcement grants from the Montana Department of Health and Human Services (four sub-awards for public health emergency preparedness and immunization programs, 2022–2025), the Montana Board of Crime Control (one sub-award supporting a victim and witness advocacy program, June 2023), and an unnamed federal law-enforcement grant focused on border cooperation (October 2024). In its sub-recipient capacity, the county does not function as a vendor to other federal contractors; instead, it receives pass-through funds from state agencies that hold primary federal grants.

Six awards face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, exposing the county to potential recompete on renewal airport infrastructure projects if the FAA continues its support of Forsyth and Colstrip facilities. Activity has modulated since 2023, with five awards that year, seven in 2024, three in 2025, and one award in 2026 to date, suggesting variability in FAA capital-project timing rather than declining engagement.