Dothan-Houston County Airport Authority, Inc.

Dothan-Houston County Airport Authority, Inc., doing business as Dothan Regional Airport, is a U.S. local government entity and airport authority that receives federal grants from the Federal Aviation Administration to fund airport infrastructure modernization and operations at Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama. The vendor operates exclusively as a federal grant recipient (100% of recent awards as prime recipient) with no federal contract prime or subcontractor relationships.

The airport authority's federal footprint centers on FAA grants under two programs: the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117), with the FAA Southern Region as the sole meaningful customer. Recent representative grant awards include a $3.4 million Airport Infrastructure Grants award (April 2026) for runway and taxiway lighting reconstruction on Runways 14/32 and 18/36 and taxiways A through L, a companion $1.55 million and $1.69 million pairing of Airport Infrastructure Grants and Airport Improvement Program awards (June 2026) for construction of a new 8,278-square-foot Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) building to meet Part 139 safety requirements, and a $1.046 million Airport Improvement Program formula grant (June 2025) to acquire an Index B ARFF vehicle. Additional active work includes runway rehabilitation, taxilane reconstruction, airport drainage system improvements with environmental assessment and easement acquisition, runway lighting installations, terminal apron pavement reconstruction, and emergency generator acquisition. Earlier pandemic-era grants under the American Rescue Plan Act (2021) provided operations and personnel funding and economic relief to airport concessions.

The FAA Southern Region issued 22 awards covering 68% of the vendor's recent grant portfolio by count, with the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (parent agency to the regional office) recording an additional 14 awards. A General Services Administration Public Buildings Service lease agreement (Basic Ordering Agreement GS04B59077) carries 38 task orders valued at $2.5 million combined potential value, though this vehicle reflects real property leasing rather than airport operations and does not reflect operational grant activity. The vendor's combined obligated dollars ($50.1 million) significantly exceed combined potential value ($2.8 million) across the award portfolio, indicating substantial prior-year execution and multi-year performance periods typical of FAA capital infrastructure grants, with ultimate completion dates extending through 2030 across active projects. Award activity remains steady at two to three grants per year in recent years, concentrated on safety infrastructure, pavement and drainage rehabilitation, and airfield lighting systems at a single airport facility.