Department Of Military Affairs Louisiana

Department Of Military Affairs Louisiana, a subordinate agency of the State of Louisiana, operates as a federal grant recipient and occasional prime contractor providing logistics and facility support services—principally temporary lodging, meals, and facility operations—to the Louisiana Army National Guard and Louisiana Air National Guard. As a U.S. state government entity, the Department does not qualify for SBA set-asides and competes in full-and-open federal procurements and cooperative agreements without set-aside designation.

The Department's federal footprint is dominated by grant work, not contract awards. The Department holds 450 prime federal awards (92% of its total 491 awards) and 41 sub-awards (8%), with a combined potential value of $11.1 million across all awards, though obligated dollars total $1.09 billion—a signal that the source captures recent awards with forward value but the actual invoiced work spans decades of recurring cooperative agreements. On the contract side, the Department receives purchase orders from the Department of the Army for temporary lodging supporting Louisiana Army National Guard training, operations, and mobilization. Representative contract examples include a $60,288 firm fixed-price purchase order (awarded January 3, 2026) for 64 beds across 30 single-occupancy and 34 double-occupancy studio queen rooms for six days at New Orleans locations; a $23,550 order (awarded December 29, 2025) for 30 hotel rooms for five nights in New Orleans; and a $5,154.69 purchase order from the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group (awarded October 1, 2022, running through September 30, 2027) for water and wastewater treatment services at Camp Beauregard in Pineville, Louisiana. Contract values typically range from roughly $1,660 to $27,720 for comparable accommodations.

The Department's grant portfolio anchors on the Louisiana National Guard as the grantor and the Department as prime recipient. The Department administers multiple congressionally directed, non-discretionary cooperative agreements under the National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Projects program (CFDA 12.401) and the National Guard ChalleNGe Program (CFDA 12.404). FY 2026 awards include a $19.37 million cooperative agreement for Army National Guard Facilities Program (award date October 1, 2025; CFDA 12.401); a $3.294 million award for Army National Guard Security Guard Activities (CFDA 12.401); a $2.053 million Air Force award for National Guard Facilities Operations and Maintenance (CFDA 12.401); a $9.0 million award for the National Guard ChalleNGe Program (CFDA 12.404) supporting military-based training and youth development at four regional centers; and a $550 thousand STARBASE award (CFDA 12.020) for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education at Camp Beauregard. Typical O&M awards fund facilities sustainment, security operations, command and control communications infrastructure, training support systems, anti-terrorism programs, environmental programs, dining operations, and administrative services across Louisiana Army and Air National Guard installations. The Department also received a $630,616 cooperative agreement from the Department of Labor's Office of Job Corps (CFDA 17.287) for the Job Challenge Demonstration Project, piloting an enhanced education and job training model for at-risk youth completing the initial phase of the Louisiana National Guard Youth Challenge Program at the Carville Job Corps Center.

Customer concentration sits overwhelmingly with the Louisiana Army National Guard and Louisiana Air National Guard. The Department of the Army Louisiana Army National Guard accounts for 196 awards with $1.7 million in combined potential value, and the Department of the Army National Guard accounts for 193 awards, together representing 93% of all awards. The Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service holds 31 awards, the Federal Emergency Management Agency 9 awards, and the Department of Justice U.S. Marshals Service 1 award valued at $7.9 million. The top-value customer by dollar magnitude is the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group ($7.9 million from a single water and wastewater treatment contract), but in volume and recurring funding, National Guard cooperative agreements dominate the footprint. The Department places task orders under two Blanket Purchase Agreements with the Department of the Army (W912NR16A0013 and W912NR13A0003), though order volumes are modest.

The Department's capability portfolio is concrete and narrow: temporary lodging accommodations (hotel/motel rooms) for National Guard training, operations, and mobilization events; meal services including full-time dining operations and catered meals at training facilities such as the Joint Culinary Training Center in Carville; facility operations and maintenance including security guard services, water and wastewater treatment, electronic security systems management, and custodial services; youth development programming through the National Guard ChalleNGe Program and STARBASE STEM education; and administrative and communications infrastructure support across state military installations. Award distribution by category reflects this focus: Hotels and Motels account for 32 awards; Caterers for 16; Cafeterias and Buffets for 6; Food Service Contractors for 3; and Utilities for 3. The Department also receives grant sub-awards as a pass-through recipient from the Louisiana Department of Administration and Louisiana Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for food and nutrition programs for Louisiana children and emergency response support.

Activity has grown year over year from 24 awards in 2022 to 45 in 2024, with 30 awards in 2025 and 8 in 2026 (recent partial-year data). Twenty-two awards face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, carrying a combined potential value of $5 thousand—a recompete signal driven by the Department's recurring annual cooperative agreement renewals under CFDA 12.401 and 12.404, which award on October 1 of each fiscal year. The Department does not pursue sub-award work as a contracting strategy; sub-awards total only 41 across its portfolio and consist primarily of pass-through grant sub-awards from state-level prime recipients administering child nutrition and emergency assistance programs rather than competitive sub-tier work.