Military Department State Of CT

Military Department State of Connecticut, doing business as the Adjutant General, operates as a U.S. state government entity (child division under the Connecticut Secretary of State) and serves as a federal grant recipient focused on National Guard operations and maintenance, STEM education, and homeland security preparedness activities. The Military Department has no federal prime contracts and does not compete in commercial procurement; instead, it receives cooperative agreements and grants directly from Department of Defense agencies and the Department of Homeland Security.

The Military Department's federal award footprint consists almost entirely of cooperative agreement grants under the National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Projects program (CFDA 12.401), which fund facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization, security operations, environmental program management, fire protection services, command and control communications infrastructure, and administrative support for Army and Air National Guard installations across Connecticut. Recent FY26 awards include a $14.6 million Army National Guard Facilities Program cooperative agreement from the Connecticut National Guard, a $2.616 million Air National Guard Facilities Operation & Maintenance Activities agreement, a $5.517 million Air National Guard Fire Protection Activities agreement, and a $1.31 million Air National Guard Security Cooperative Agreement. The Military Department also administers the STARBASE Program (CFDA 12.020), a congressionally directed STEM education initiative serving underserved middle and high school students through afterschool mentoring; FY26 STARBASE awards from the Washington Headquarters Service include $331,816 for the Waterbury location and $651,080 for the Windsor Locks location. A multi-year military construction cooperative agreement awarded in May 2025 funds an aircraft maintenance hangar at Groton, Connecticut, with completion scheduled for September 30, 2029.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted to the Connecticut Army National Guard and the Connecticut Air National Guard. Of 265 total awards in the source data spanning two decades, the Department of the Army National Guard accounts for 130 awards, the Department of the Army Connecticut Army National Guard accounts for 71 awards, and the Department of the Air Force Air National Guard accounts for 44 awards — together representing 97 percent of awards. The Washington Headquarters Service (Defense) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters Financial Assistance Awards division account for six and five awards respectively. All awards are structured as cooperative agreements between the Military Department and federal grantor agencies; the Military Department is the prime recipient on 257 awards (97 percent) and a sub-recipient on eight grant awards (3 percent), primarily reimbursement and preparedness activities through the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and related to Connecticut Homeland Security Strategy implementation.

Activity has remained stable across the past five years, averaging approximately 16 awards annually. Sixteen awards face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, representing routine recompete cycles for annual O&M and STARBASE cooperative agreements. The Military Department does not hold seats on commercial government-wide acquisition vehicles (GWACs, IDIQs, or BPAs) and does not function as a prime contractor on federal contracts; its role is limited to recipient of federal assistance to support state National Guard operations and federally directed STEM education programs delivered through the Adjutant General office in Hartford, Connecticut.