Garrison Airport Authority

Garrison Airport Authority, a U.S. local government airport authority and DOT-certified disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) located in Garrison, North Dakota, receives federal grants as a recipient for airport infrastructure and terminal reconstruction work from the Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region, operating exclusively as a prime grant recipient rather than as a contractor or subcontractor.

Garrison Airport Authority operates in a narrow customer footprint dominated by DOT FAA Great Lakes Region, which accounts for all nineteen awards in the source data across two nominal customer lines (Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Great Lakes Region: 10 awards; Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration: 9 awards). The authority competes exclusively in grant programs and does not hold contracts, IDVs, BPAs, or GWACs; all work is grant-funded and recipient-executed rather than contract-bid.

The grant portfolio centers on airport infrastructure and terminal reconstruction. Recent awards include a $450,000 formula grant under the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.116) awarded July 13, 2026, to reconstruct 358 square feet of terminal building space as Phase 2 of a multi-phase terminal project (performance through July 12, 2030); a $235,000 project grant under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117) also awarded July 13, 2026, to reconstruct the final 259 square feet of the terminal building; a design-phase project grant awarded August 9, 2024, to fund design work for reconstruction of the full 1,230-square-foot terminal building (performance through August 8, 2028); and a $235,000 formula grant awarded June 1, 2023, to install a 700-foot perimeter fence for airfield security (performance through May 31, 2027). Earlier work includes a pavement maintenance and repair grant awarded August 1, 2022, addressing sealing and crack repair across taxiways, runway 13/31, apron surfaces, and hangar taxilanes (performance through July 31, 2026), and an American Rescue Plan Act economic-relief project grant awarded January 18, 2022, for pandemic-related operations, personnel, cleaning, and sanitization costs (performance through January 17, 2026).

Award volume has been sparse and episodic: one award in 2021, two in 2022, one in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2026, with combined dollars obligated across all nineteen awards totaling $6.1 million. Only one award (the August 1, 2022 pavement sealing grant) reaches ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months. All work is performed in Garrison, North Dakota.