Patriot Airboat Corporation

Patriot Airboat Corporation, a self-certified small disadvantaged business based in Vidor, Texas, manufactures custom-built airboats and provides airboat repair and training services to federal law enforcement, wildlife management, and border security agencies as a prime contractor on purchase orders. The company operates exclusively in a prime capacity (100% of awards) across a small footprint of nine federal awards totaling $1.2 million in combined potential value.

Patriot Airboat's customer base concentrates heavily on the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Coast Guard, which accounts for four awards and $936 thousand in combined potential value—representing 78% of the vendor's recent federal footprint. The remaining 22% splits among the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (two awards, $123 thousand), the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Wildlife Services (one award, $94 thousand), and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers (two awards, $26 thousand). The rankings by award count and potential value track identically, with the Coast Guard dominating both volume and dollar concentration.

Recent capability work centers on airboat procurement and shallow-water vessel operations in support of southern border security. Patriot Airboat delivered a $350,997 total small business set-aside purchase order to the Coast Guard on February 20, 2026, for three custom-built airboats with trailers (18–20 foot aluminum hulls, capable of operating in six inches of water) in support of Rio Grande border operations, with completion scheduled for May 1, 2026. The company delivered five airboats with trailers to the Coast Guard in October 2025 for $466,777.14. Patriot Airboat also holds a $90 thousand total small business set-aside purchase order from the Coast Guard (awarded October 30, 2025) for Airboat Operator Train the Trainer course instruction supporting Operation River Wall personnel certification, running through April 30, 2026. Earlier work includes a $99,995 total small business set-aside airboat procurement to Fish and Wildlife Service (March 1, 2024) and a $94,300 airboat and trailer purchase order to USDA APHIS Wildlife Services (August 11, 2023) for feral swine control operations in Southwest Louisiana. Award activity has accelerated in recent years—one award in 2021, none in 2022, three in 2024, two in 2025, and two in 2026 to date. One award carrying $28 thousand in combined potential value faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore represents near-term recompete exposure. Ninety-five percent of the vendor's combined potential value has been obligated across the active awards.