Patriot Airboat Corporation

Patriot Airboat Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business manufacturer based in Vidor, Texas, designs and builds custom aluminum airboats with high-powered marine engines and delivers repair services to federal law enforcement, wildlife management, and border security agencies as a 100% prime contractor under small-business set-asides. The company operates across NAICS 336612 (Boat Building) as its primary classification, with secondary work in ship repair and marine training.

Customer concentration anchors heavily to the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, which accounts for four awards and $936 thousand of Patriot's $1.4 million combined potential value across eleven prime contracts. The remaining $464 thousand splits among the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services (two awards, $200 thousand), the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (three awards across Regional and national offices, $255 thousand combined), and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (two awards, $26 thousand). The top-customers-by-award-count and top-customers-by-potential-value rankings align — Coast Guard dominates both volume and dollars — reflecting Patriot's deep integration with DHS border security operations.

Recent representative work includes a $350,997 Total Small Business purchase order from Coast Guard awarded February 20, 2026, for three custom airboats with trailers equipped with 18–20 foot aluminum hulls and Marine Levitator MS 70/LSX 7.4L engines for Rio Grande shallow-water operations; a $105,400 Total Small Business purchase order from USDA APHIS Wildlife Services awarded September 19, 2026, for a custom-built airboat with high-powered motor; and a $131,800 Total Small Business purchase order from the Fish and Wildlife Service awarded August 12, 2026, for a fully equipped 18-by-8.5-foot Marine Grade 5086 aluminum hull airboat with tandem-axle trailer, Garmin GPS, and specified marine engines. Patriot also delivers training: a $90,000 Total Small Business contract from Coast Guard, awarded October 30, 2025, for Airboat Operator Train the Trainer Course instruction supporting Operation River Wall at the southern border. The company's airboat repair footprint includes $22,714.91 in marsh-master vehicle repairs for Fish and Wildlife Service and $6,000 in FY24 low-profile airboat repair work for the Army Corps of Engineers.

Activity has accelerated markedly — one award each in 2021 and 2023, three in 2024, two in 2025, and four in 2026 — with two awards (combined potential value $237 thousand) facing ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Patriot operates exclusively as prime (zero sub-award exposure) and competes consistently under Total Small Business set-asides, with the exception of two no-set-aside Coast Guard purchases ($466,777 and $28,000) for emergency border operations. All eleven awards are firm fixed-price purchase orders with no parent vehicles, IDIQs, or GWACs; each represents a discrete procurement.