National Association Of State Boating Law Administrators, Inc.

National Association Of State Boating Law Administrators, Inc. (doing business as Nasbla), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, delivers specialized maritime safety training, boating law enforcement education, and recreational boating safety standards development to the U.S. Coast Guard and select military and civilian federal agencies as a prime recipient and prime contractor. Nasbla does not compete under set-aside categories and operates exclusively in full-and-open federal procurements.

Nasbla's federal footprint concentrates heavily on the U.S. Coast Guard, which accounts for 162 of 171 total awards (99% of award count) and $952 thousand in combined potential value. The organization holds a single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the Coast Guard valued at $88,750 through August 21, 2029, under which the Coast Guard issues firm fixed-price delivery orders for GPS forensics training courses. Recent contract work includes multiple $8,875 delivery orders for one-day GPS forensics training courses (issued September 2024 through May 2026), a $13,225 purchase order for personal watercraft operation training issued in November 2025, and a $32,600 Marine Corps sole-source purchase order issued in June 2025 for a Tactical Operators Course performed in Jacksonville, Florida. Nasbla also received a $55,075 Pacific Air Forces purchase order for a Boat Operator Course completed in April 2025.

Nasbla's grant portfolio under the Coast Guard's Boating Safety Financial Assistance program (CFDA 97.012) and National Nonprofit Organization Recreational Boating Safety Grant Program (CFDA 97.135) represents substantial mission-critical work. Recent cooperative agreements awarded October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 total $1.422 million across six awards: $525,000 for developing model policies and standards in incident reporting, boating under the influence detection, boater education, and life jacket requirements; $340,000 for nine nationwide boating incident investigation and GPS forensics training courses for 465 marine law enforcement officers; $285,000 to expand the Operation Dry Water campaign combining law enforcement weekends with multilingual public education; $150,000 for six nationwide boating under the influence detection and enforcement training courses for 150 officers; and $112,482 for realistic vessel collision staging exercises with drone documentation to enhance the Level II Advanced Boating Incident Investigation Course. Nasbla also received project grant awards through September 2025 for boating safety dashboards development, boating education standards development, boating under the influence prosecution training, boat occupant injury surveillance, and staged boating collisions with video documentation.

Activity has remained modest and uneven—eight awards in 2022, one in 2023, six in 2024, eleven in 2025, and two in 2026 year to date—with six awards scheduled for completion within the next twenty-four months facing potential recompete. Nasbla operates exclusively as a prime contractor and prime grant recipient with no subcontract footprint in the source data. Its capability portfolio centers on specialized maritime law enforcement training (GPS forensics, tactical boat operations, boating under the influence detection and prosecution), boating safety standards development and maintenance, national policy coordination across state boating safety administrators, and incident investigation training and data collection systems supporting the Coast Guard's recreational boating safety mission nationwide.