$50,000,000

Department of Agriculture·Forest Service

WORK BEGAN2026-01-01·LATEST ACTION2026-05-11·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDCONT_AWD_1202SC26K2501_12C2_1202SC26T2500_12C2

Award description

FAM RETARDANT - FULL SERVICE, 2026 IQ-NOCOMMIT

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high

In plain English

Provides aerial fire retardant materials and application services for USDA Forest Service to suppress wildfires nationwide.

Sub-sectors

wildfire-suppressionaerial-retardant

Why this matters

$50M annual commitment to aerial wildfire suppression capacity reflects escalating U.S. wildfire risks and climate adaptation needs.

Supply-chain signal

Sustains specialized aerial retardant suppliers and application contractors; signals sustained federal wildfire-response investment.

Generated by award_classification v2.1.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-06-10. Cost: $0.009689.

Period of performance

Start

2026-01-01

End

2026-12-31

Status

activein 171 days

Recipient

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Sources

USAspending.gov — all awards for this UEI →
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Award record ingested from usaspending. Source identifier CONT_AWD_1202SC26K2501_12C2_1202SC26T2500_12C2.

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