Indiana Department Of Transportation

The Indiana Department of Transportation, a state government transportation agency headquartered in Indianapolis, acts as prime recipient of federal highway and transportation formula grants and planning assistance awards from the U.S. Department of Transportation. INDOT does not compete for federal contracts and has no prime or sub contracting footprint; its federal activity is exclusively grant-based, with the agency serving as direct recipient of federal transportation assistance.

INDOT's federal funding portfolio is dominated by the Federal Highway Administration, which obligated 99.8% of all awards across the portfolio. The department manages a statewide multimodal infrastructure program funded through formula allocations and discretionary grants. Representative recent grant work includes a $1.15 million Cooperative Agreement under the Regional Infrastructure Accelerators Program (CFDA 20.951) awarded November 30, 2026, to conduct detailed assessment of project pipeline alternatives focused on economic feasibility, financial planning and implementation modeling, and project screening for local and central Indiana regions through November 2029; a $524,926 formula grant under the Metropolitan Transportation Planning program (CFDA 20.505) awarded July 23, 2026, to support the Northern Indiana Regional Planning Commission Metropolitan Planning Organization's Unified Planning Work Program in LaPorte County through December 2030; and a $2.93 million National Infrastructure Project Assistance (Mega Projects) grant (CFDA 20.937) awarded February 9, 2026, to install fiber backbone infrastructure along the 80/94 Flexroad corridor from Illinois to Indiana through December 2029. INDOT also carries a $1.25 million Technology & Innovation Deployment Program grant (CFDA 20.227) for a Work Zone Safety Automated Enforcement Project, and multiple awards under the Highway Safety Improvement Program (CFDA 20.272), Surface Transportation Block Grant Program (CFDA 20.287), Bridge Formula Program (CFDA 20.263), Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CFDA 20.268), Highway Planning and Construction (CFDA 20.205), State Planning and Research (CFDA 20.258), Carbon Reduction Program (CFDA 20.265), and Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-Saving Transportation (CFDA 20.284).

INDOT's award portfolio spans 79,251 federal grants across a 27-year history, with $35.37 billion in combined obligated dollars. Federal Highway Administration formula allocations account for 79,066 awards; the Federal Transit Administration, the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Federal Railroad Administration round out the customer set. Activity has remained steady at roughly 2,700–3,000 awards annually from 2022 through 2024, declining to 1,996 awards in 2025 and 176 awards year-to-date in 2026 — a reporting lag consistent with grant obligation cycles rather than program contraction. The portfolio carries 638 awards with ultimate completion dates within the next twenty-four months.

Place of performance for all INDOT work is Indiana, distributed across eight transportation districts (Fort Wayne, Greenfield, Crawfordsville, LaPorte, Seymour, Vincennes, and subordinate county-level administration). The agency passes through sub-awards to county governments and regional planning organizations for preliminary engineering, bridge inspections, and implementation services on specific projects; representative sub-recipients include Gibson County Commissioners, Wayne County Government, Monroe County, Jay County Highway Department, Floyd County Board of Commissioners, Brown County, and the City of North Vernon.