New Frontier Aviation, LLC

New Frontier Aviation, LLC, a Fort Benton, Montana–based for-profit Subchapter S corporation established in 2003, operates exclusively as a prime contractor delivering single-engine air tanker (SEAT) flight services and aerial firefighting support to the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture under predominantly small-business set-aside contracts. The vendor self-performs all work with no subcontractor engagement, holding a $400 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with the DOI Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region that runs through April 30, 2029, and generating the vast majority of its federal footprint through task orders against that vehicle.

New Frontier Aviation's customer base is geographically and administratively concentrated within the Department of the Interior. The DOI Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region anchors 97% of the vendor's combined potential value across 41 awards valued at $950.3 million; the DOI Bureau of Indian Affairs Western Region contributes a secondary stream of five awards worth $16.5 million. Smaller exposure exists with the DOI Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Region, the DOI Departmental Offices Interior Business Center, the DOI National Park Service Intermountain Region, and the Department of Agriculture Forest Service regional offices. Across the portfolio, awards split fairly evenly between work ordered under Total Small Business set-asides and full-and-open (no set-aside) delivery orders, with firm fixed-price and fixed-price-with-economic-price-adjustment structures predominating.

The vendor's primary NAICS footprint reflects its aerial-firefighting specialization: Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation (69 awards) and Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportation (41 awards) dominate, with Support Activities for Forestry (25 awards) as the third category. PSC coding tracks similarly, with Passenger Air Charter (136 awards) and Lease or Rental of Equipment—Aircraft (18 awards) leading, alongside Natural Resources/Conservation—Forest-Range Fire Suppression (12 awards). Representative delivery orders include a $12.2 million exclusive-use SEAT order at Tooele, Utah (May 2, 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), an $8.996 million exclusive-use SEAT order at Ronan, Montana (June 4, 2024, Total Small Business set-aside), a $7.543 million on-call SEAT minimum-guarantee order (March 5, 2024, no set-aside), and a $6.957 million SEAT delivery order (August 5, 2026, Total Small Business set-aside). An earlier $5.054 million on-call SEAT order issued June 10, 2025, carried no set-aside designation.

Activity trajectory has been uneven—four awards in 2022, one in 2023, four in 2024, one in 2025, and one in 2026—and the portfolio shows minimal recompete pressure in the next twenty-four months, with only one award ($7 million combined potential value) reaching ultimate completion in that window. The core $400 million IDC vehicle extends through 2029, anchoring long-term revenue visibility. Service Contract Inventory reporting shows $36 million in invoiced federal services labor across FY2022–FY2025, with FY2022 peak invoicing of $10.6 million across 16.8 FTEs declining to $10.7 million across 9.1 FTEs by FY2025. On federal services contracts captured in SCI, median government-paid rates ran around $297.95 per hour, with senior labor pricing through $403.12 per hour and junior rates near $221.26 per hour. The vendor operates a lean, self-performing delivery model with no named subcontractors in the SCI dataset, consistent with the award-portfolio profile of 100% prime work and zero sub engagement.

SEAT wildlands fire fighting