High Desert Aviation LLC

High Desert Aviation LLC, a for-profit limited liability company based in Gooding, Idaho, provides precision aerial application services — herbicide spraying, pesticide application, seed dispersal, and vegetation management — exclusively as a prime contractor (100% of recent awards) to federal land management and military installation agencies under small business set-asides and full-and-open competition.

High Desert Aviation holds two dominant vehicle positions that anchor its federal footprint. The vendor placed a $50 million single-award Blanket Purchase Agreement with the USDA Forest Service (awarded June 2023, running through March 2033) for land management integrated resources services with national scope available to all federal agencies. The vendor also holds a $998,099.50 single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the U.S. Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region (awarded March 2023, running through April 2028 with an option year through April 2027) for aerial spraying services at Fort Riley, Kansas, Custer Hill, and Junction City, Kansas; this IDIQ has generated 21 task orders (combined potential value $1.3 million). A second Army IDC (W911RX19D0005) generated 13 task orders worth $479 thousand. Recent delivery orders under the Army contracts exemplify the work: a $83,920 order for aerial spray services at Fort Riley issued August 2026; a $157,520 order for aerial spray issued August 2026; a $50,010.87 order for aerial spraying (Task Order 0017) issued May 2026; and a $126,868.05 order for noxious weed control issued July 2024.

Customer concentration is bifurcated across two agencies by transaction volume but dominated by the Forest Service by dollar value. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region represents 30 awards with combined potential value of $2.8 million and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region represents 27 awards with combined potential value of $3.7 million (together, 97% of award count). However, the Forest Service BPA alone carries $50 million in potential value and represents 87% of all dollars in the vendor's portfolio. The Army dominates transaction frequency and operational intensity — the Southwest Region has issued delivery orders for aerial spraying, tank gunnery range operations, brush control, and miscellaneous grounds maintenance on a recurrent basis since at least 2022. BLM Idaho has awarded numerous small-dollar purchase orders for herbicide and seed application, including 2022 Twin Falls Fuels Herbicide Application ($705 thousand), 2023 TFD Fuels Chemical Applications ($455 thousand), grass and sagebrush seeding ($61 thousand), and cheatgrass control ($41 thousand). The vendor also works with the Army Materiel Command Mission and Installation Contracting Command at Fort Riley (4 awards, $233 thousand combined potential value) for tank gunnery ranges and weed control.

High Desert Aviation's capability portfolio concentrates on NAICS 111998 (Soil Preparation, Planting, and Cultivating) — 66 of 68 prime awards — with a secondary footprint in forestry support. Primary PSC codes are Natural Resources/Conservation–Aerial Fertilization/Spraying (43 awards) and Natural Resources/Conservation–Aerial Seeding (14 awards). The vendor operates GPS-guided aerial application systems for herbicide, pesticide, and seed dispersal across western public lands and military installations, with particular depth on Fort Riley and Idaho public lands (Twin Falls District, Antelope Pasture, Holbrook, Malta, Bellevue areas). Work scope includes invasive species control, fuel reduction, habitat restoration, sagebrush seeding, cheatgrass suppression, and training range maintenance. Recent awards under small business set-asides include the BLM's 2024 TFD Fuels BIL Chemical Applications for herbicide application across 36,497 acres in Idaho counties (issued August 2024, firm fixed price, completion June 2025, ceiling value reported as $0.00 in award record but described as $619,778 in the summary).

Activity has been uneven across the portfolio. High Desert Aviation received 8 awards in 2022, 13 in 2023, 9 in 2024, 5 in 2025, and 4 as of mid-2026. Recompete exposure in the next twenty-four months is minimal — only one award (combined potential value $43 thousand) reaches ultimate completion inside that window. The Forest Service BPA, which dominates the vendor's dollar footprint, does not recompete until March 2033. The Army Southwest Region IDIQ does not recompete until April 2028. Combined obligated dollars across all awards stand at $5.6 million (10% of $57 million combined potential value), reflecting the high proportion of ceiling values to actual spend on small delivery orders and the large unexercised ceiling on the Forest Service vehicle. The vendor competes predominantly under full-and-open awards on the two dominant IDVs and recurs across small business set-asides on transactional BLM purchase orders.