Pollux Aviation, LTD.

Pollux Aviation, LTD., a for-profit Subchapter S corporation based in Wasilla, Alaska, is a small-business helicopter operator that delivers on-call aviation support to the Department of the Interior and other federal agencies as a prime contractor under total small-business-set-aside and full-and-open delivery orders. The vendor operates almost exclusively as a prime (275 of 276 awards), with a customer footprint concentrated in Interior agencies managing remote Alaskan operations and conservation research.

Pollux Aviation's capability portfolio is tightly defined: helicopter flight services for civilian federal missions in Alaska, including aerial surveys, wildlife monitoring, remote camera retrieval, fire detection, stream gage maintenance, and transportation of personnel and equipment across remote terrain. The vendor has delivered work consistently since 2002 SAM registration, with recent awards spanning July 2026 back through 2001. Representative recent work includes a $40,657 delivery order from the Department of the Interior Alaska Region (July 2026) for helicopter flight services supporting allotment reconciliation operations in Kaktovik through February 2027; a $47,520 order from the USGS Alaska Science Center (July 2026) for North Slope goose research support near Prudhoe Bay; and a $49,695.64 order from the National Park Service Alaska Region (March 2025) for fire effects research on lake chemistry in Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. A $72,037.30 USGS contract (March 2024) supported North Slope goose and hydrology research, and a $92,897.84 USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service award (June 2023) covered helicopter services for soil surveys in the Northern Nulato Hills region.

Customer concentration in Interior agencies is pronounced. The top five funding offices account for 67% of award count, with the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 leading at 57 awards ($968 thousand combined potential value), followed by the National Park Service Alaska Region (45 awards, $479 thousand), the USGS Alaska Science Center (40 awards, $968 thousand), the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region (23 awards, $668 thousand), and the USGS Office of Acquisitions and Grants (20 awards, $539 thousand). A different pattern emerges in potential-value concentration: the Department of the Interior Departmental Offices Office of Policy Management and Budget anchors a single award valued at $38.2 million, and the Interior Business Center holds 16 awards worth $22.2 million combined. Together these two offices represent a substantial share of total potential value, driven by the multi-award IDV vehicle discussed below.

Pollux Aviation holds a Department of the Interior Indefinite Delivery Contract valued at $10.28 million, awarded June 13, 2023, and running through February 28, 2027, as a total small-business set-aside enabling multiple Interior agencies to issue delivery orders for on-call helicopter services. The source names this as the primary vehicle anchoring recent work. The vendor also operates under a prior-generation DOI Alaska On Call Helicopter Flight Services 2017-2021 IDV, from which 72 task orders generated $1.6 million in combined potential value. A Blanket Purchase Agreement (IND12PA00151) carries 69 task orders valued at $552 thousand. These vehicles establish the vendor's institutional position as a standing aviation resource for Interior field operations across Alaska.

Activity has been episodic over the past five years: 18 awards in 2021, then a drop to 7 awards in 2023, 11 in 2024, 3 in 2025, and 2 awards to date in 2026. The recompete cliff presents minimal near-term pressure: only 2 awards totaling $88 thousand face ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. Pollux Aviation operates at small-business scale and does not subcontract meaningfully; the SCI dataset shows only 2 named-subcontractor records (0 FTEs and 0.1 FTEs in FY2024 and FY2022 respectively), confirming that the vendor builds and delivers its own helicopter operations without reliance on sub-teams. The awards are concentrated in NAICS 491200 (Nonscheduled Chartered Passenger Air Transportation — 249 awards) and PSC H202 (Passenger Air Charter), reflecting the vendor's singular focus on direct helicopter operations rather than broader transportation or logistics services.

Helicopter air charter operator, non-scheduled freight and passengers, Alaska wide.