Texas Military Department

Texas Military Department, a state government entity based in Austin, Texas, is the administrative and operational headquarters for the Texas Army National Guard and Texas Air National Guard, and operates as a federal grant recipient under the National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance program (CFDA 12.401) as well as a prime contractor on occasional commodity procurement. The department's federal footprint is dominated by cooperative agreements (95% of recent awards are prime) with the Department of the Army Texas Army National Guard and the Department of the Air Force, supplemented by sub-award funding from the Texas Division of Emergency Management for emergency protective measures and disaster response operations.

Texas Military Department's core federal mission is the operations, maintenance, and sustainment of Army and Air National Guard facilities and service support across Texas installations including Fort Hood, Camp Bowie, Lackland, Ellington, and Carswell. The department manages Electronic Security System installation and operation, command-and-control infrastructure, fire protection, security guard services, training support systems, and facilities program administration. Representative recent cooperative agreements include a $51.5 million award (October 1, 2025, CFDA 12.401) for National Guard Military Operations and Maintenance across Texas, a $2.428 million award for facilities program and environmental resource management, a $1.924 million award for C4IM service operations, a $1.845 million award for Training Support System programs, a $1.107 million award for security guard activities, and a $646 thousand award for Electronic Security System management. The department also operates the National Guard ChalleNGe Program, a military-based youth development initiative for at-risk youth aged 16–18, and the STARBASE STEM education program across multiple Texas locations. On the commodity side, Customs and Border Protection awarded Texas Military Department a $1.776 million definitive contract on January 22, 2026, for 6,000 rolls of 36-inch concertina wire with completion by January 31, 2026.

Customer concentration tracks overwhelmingly to the Texas Army National Guard and Air National Guard within the Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force, which account for 96% of award count across the portfolio. The top-five funding agencies (Army Texas Army National Guard, Army National Guard, Air Force Air National Guard, Department of the Air Force, and Federal Emergency Management Agency) collectively represent 96% of all awards. By combined potential value, the portfolio is anchored by a single $1.776 million Customs and Border Protection contract for concertina wire, with the remainder distributed across mandatory Congressionally directed cooperative agreements under CFDA 12.401 that run through the Texas National Guard. The source notes that all O&M agreements are non-discretionary and Congressionally directed; eligible recipients (state governors acting on behalf of their National Guard) submit annual budgets that program managers accept or negotiate before execution.

Activity has remained relatively steady over the past five years, with eighteen awards in 2022, twenty-one in 2023, nineteen in 2024, seventeen in 2025, and three recorded in 2026 to date. The combined obligated dollars across all 270 awards total $1.83 billion against a combined potential value of $1.9 million, reflecting that nearly all dollars are already invoiced or obligated. Federal grant sub-awards comprise 5% of the portfolio; Texas Military Department receives sub-award funding from the Texas Division of Emergency Management under federal disaster-assistance programs for emergency protective measures, emergency rescue operations, and emergency management program coordination, with six sub-awards spanning 2022 through August 2026.