Valley County Airport Authority

Valley County Airport Authority, doing business as ORD Airport & Weather, is a U.S. local government county airport authority based in Ord, Nebraska, that receives federal grant funding from the Federal Aviation Administration for airport infrastructure projects and operates as a grant recipient rather than a federal contractor.

The vendor's federal footprint consists entirely of FAA grant awards under two programs: the Airport Improvement Program (CFDA 20.106) and the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (CFDA 20.117). All fourteen awards in the source span two decades, with activity concentrated in the past five years — three awards in 2021, two in 2025, and one in early 2026. The combined obligated value across all grants is $5.1 million, and the vendor serves only two distinct customer entities: the FAA Central Region and the FAA national office. Recent work centers on a single multi-phase capital project: construction of a new 6,400-square-foot sponsor-owned aircraft storage hangar at ORD Airport to generate revenue and enhance the airport's financial self-sustainability. Three separate FAA grants fund portions of this project with ultimate completion in July 2029. The largest individual awards are a $662,947 formula grant under the Airport Improvement Program (awarded July 10, 2025), a $467,368 project grant under the same program (July 10, 2025), and a $114,737 project grant under the Airport Infrastructure Grants program (awarded March 9, 2026). An earlier $1.4 million American Rescue Plan Act project grant, awarded December 2, 2021, provided COVID-19 economic relief funding for airport operations, personnel, cleaning, sanitization, debt service, and pandemic response costs. All work is performed in Ord, Nebraska, and subject to standard FAA grant compliance requirements including environmental assessments and progress reporting. The vendor's grant activity is episodic rather than recurring; the span between 2021 and 2025 shows dormancy, and the current hangar project represents the dominant capital initiative driving recent award volume.