Marine Exchange Of Alaska, Inc.

Marine Exchange of Alaska, Inc., a non-profit organization headquartered in Juneau, Alaska, operates exclusively as a federal prime contractor delivering Automatic Identification System (AIS) infrastructure, maritime domain awareness services, Arctic maritime safety operations, and weather monitoring to the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal agencies. The vendor competes full-and-open with no set-aside designation across its recent award portfolio.

The Coast Guard dominates Marine Exchange of Alaska's customer base to a degree that defines its federal business model. Of 31 total awards tracked across the vendor's history, 15 awards account for $39.7 million in combined potential value (99% of total federal dollars), with all fifteen anchored to the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Coast Guard. The largest award is a $15.3 million definitive contract for Nationwide Automatic Identification System (NAIS) terrestrial network coverage in Coast Guard District 17 (Alaska area of responsibility), with an ultimate completion date of March 29, 2026. Most recent Coast Guard work includes a March 2026 purchase order modification for $298,397 (part of a $3.6 million NAIS ceiling), an August 2025 $81,725 navigation study for Alaska coastal waters, and a May 2025 $48,500 purchase order for weather station installation and maintenance at Coast Guard Base Kodiak through June 2030. Multiple smaller prior awards address AIS Aids to Navigation (ATON) Management System access, with ceiling values ranging from $130,000 to $225,000 across sole-source awards made under FAR 6.302-1 (only responsible source authority), reflecting Marine Exchange of Alaska's established position as the sole provider of integrated AIS services in Alaska's maritime environment. The remaining six awards distribute across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ($43,000 combined), the Fish and Wildlife Service ($129,000 for a geofence upgrade project supporting walrus and sea-bird monitoring), the Maritime Administration, and the Army Corps of Engineers.

Marine Exchange of Alaska holds federal grant funding outside the contract awards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded a $2.01 million Project Grant (CFDA 11.469, Congressionally Identified Awards and Projects) in August 2024 for the Arctic Watch initiative, a 24/7 maritime monitoring and sea traffic management operation serving Alaska's Arctic region through vessel location tracking, real-time weather reporting, and outreach to Alaska Native tribal governments and Arctic communities; this grant runs through July 2026. The Maritime Administration awarded a Cooperative Agreement for automated weather observation installations on six Alaska Marine Highway vessels, completed and closed out in February 2025.

Activity has been sparse and volatile. The vendor received two awards in 2022, one in 2023, two in 2024, three in 2025, and one in 2026 year-to-date, with only one award ($3.6 million NAIS modification) scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months. The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures $6.5 million in invoiced revenue on SCI-reportable prime contracts across FY2022 ($3.2 million across 4.2 FTEs) and FY2024 ($3.3 million across 4.2 FTEs), with no SCI-reported activity in FY2023; median government-paid hourly rates on these contracts ran $372.54 per hour, with senior labor priced through $380 per hour. Marine Exchange of Alaska performs all SCI-reportable work in-house, with zero sub-hours across its prime contracts, and has no federal sub-award footprint. The vendor operates as a pure prime with no integration into larger federal contractor teams, positioning it as a specialized maritime services provider rather than a component of broader federal delivery networks.