Federal contractor · MAMMOTH LAKES, CA

AIRBORNE SNOW OBSERVATORIES INC

AIRBORNE SNOW OBSERVATORIES INC received $152.7K in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 1 awards. Since FY2020: $4.7M. Its largest customer was U.S. Geological Survey ($152.7K).

Obligations · FY2026
$152.7K
New awards
1
Sole-source
100%
Single offer
0.0%
UEI
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Parent company
AIRBORNE SNOW OBSERVATORIES INC
Small business
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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

  1. 707.8KFY2020
  2. 1.5MFY2021
  3. 470.3KFY2022
  4. 509.5KFY2023
  5. 1.5MFY2024
  6. -151.4KFY2025
  7. 152.7KFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

  1. U.S. Geological Survey$152.7K100%
    1 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

  1. Professional services$152.7K100%

Where the work was performed

  1. Jefferson County, CO$152.7K100%

Integrity signals

Shares of the year's obligations, next to the country's.

  • Low competition100%
    US 39% · $152.7K
  • Sole-source awards100%
    US 30% · $152.7K
  • Single-offer competitions0.0%
    US 8.7% · $0
  • Urgency justifications0.0%
    US 5.1% · $0

A signal is a reason to look closer, not evidence of wrongdoing: most sole-source awards are lawful and justified.

Largest awards

  1. FRASER RIVER BASIN AIRBORNE SNOW SURVEYS$291.6K
    U.S. Geological Survey· Jefferson County, CO· Professional services· Feb 14, 2025 – Jul 24, 2026· 140G0225C0004

Federal grants & assistance received

Grants, loans (counted at their subsidy cost), direct payments and insurance, by fiscal year of the action (USAspending.gov, FABS). Reported apart from contracts and never added to them.

AIRBORNE SNOW OBSERVATORIES INC received -$19.2K in federal assistance in FY2026, on 1 actions (0 new awards), −111% vs FY2025. Its largest program was 43.001 · Science (-$19.2K).

Assistance · FY2026
-$19.2K
New awards
0
Actions
1
Since FY2023
$235.3K

Assistance by fiscal year

  1. 63.7KFY2023
  2. 19.2KFY2024
  3. 171.6KFY2025
  4. -19.2KFY2026

By type

  1. Grants-$19.2K0.0%

Top programs

  1. 43.001 · Science-$19.2K0.0%

Source: Federal financial assistance transactions (Financial Assistance Broker Submission) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 8, 2026, loaded Oct 8, 2026 · FY2023–FY2026.

Subawards

Matched by Unique Entity ID: the first-tier subawards this organization reported as a prime recipient, and those primes reported paying it.

As a prime: who it pays · FY2026

No subawards reported as a prime in FY2026.

As a sub-recipient: who pays it · FY2026

  • Sub-grants: $170.9K (1 subaward)

1 prime

  1. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$170.9K100%
    CORVALLIS, OR · 1 subaward

By fiscal year

  • FY2025: $0 paid out · $450.2K received
  • FY2026: $0 paid out · $170.9K received

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from FY2021.

Teaming partners

Companies this company reported paying, primes that reported paying it, from FFATA subaward reports.

Companies it pays

No subawards reported to other companies.

Primes that pay it

1 company · $621.1K reported

  1. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY$621.1K
    CORVALLIS, OR · 2 subawards

Primes report first-tier subawards of $30,000 or more themselves, and many go unreported (GAO-24-106214). Reporting moved from FSRS to SAM.gov in March 2025 and fewer sub-contracts have been reported since. Amounts are what primes reported; they are never added to prime award totals.

Source: Subawards (first-tier sub-contracts and sub-grants reported under FFATA) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov (reports filed in SAM.gov, formerly FSRS)), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · Subawards loaded from 2021.

Competitors

Companies that win from the same buyers in the same markets: obligations by agency and industry compared over the last three fiscal years.

Compared on 2 markets (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

  1. STILLWATER-ANCHOR JOINT VENTURE$1.5M
    BERKELEY, CA · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  2. TATE SNYDER KIMSEY ARCHITECTS, LTD.$2M−102% in FY2026
    HENDERSON, NV · 68% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Architectural, engineering, and related services
  3. MATRIX SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL INC$554K−12% in FY2026
    CHICAGO, IL · 37% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveBureau of Reclamation · Architectural, engineering, and related services

Showing the top 3 of 25 competitors. Open the profile for the full list.

Who sells to the same buyers in the same markets, not who wins against whom on a given contract. Prime contract obligations by the agency and NAICS code of each award; subawards are never added. A company is a family of legal entities, joined by parent UEI or, in part, by an AI reading of names.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · FY2024–FY2026.

Lobbying and PAC activity

Organizations in House lobbying disclosures and FEC records whose names an AI judgment matched to this company. Those records carry no identifier shared with contracts, so every match is by name.

Matched organizations

  • Airborne Snow Observatories, Inc.AI match · 100%
Lobbying · 2025
$155K
4 reports
Lobbying · 2024–2026
$305K

Lobbying by year

  1. 2024$15K
    1 reports
  2. 2025$155K
    4 reports
  3. 2026$135K
    3 reports

Top issues

  1. Natural resources8 reports

Who was contacted

  1. U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES8 reports
  2. Bureau of Reclamation6 reports
  3. U.S. SENATE6 reports
  4. Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers)2 reports

Houses of Congress and federal agencies the reports list as contacted (a report names every one for all its issues).

Lobbying firms hired

  1. Natural Resource Results LLC$305K
    8 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

Lobbying amounts are the filers' own good-faith estimates on quarterly LD-2 reports (the law asks for amounts rounded to $10,000; under $5,000 need not be itemized), latest amendment only. When an organization files its own report, it replaces what outside firms report for it that quarter. Matches are by name. Lobbying and political giving are legal and public: they show engagement with government, not influence over any award. Correlation is not influence: these organizations' lobbying and their contracts are shown side by side, and nothing here implies either affected the other.

Source: Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Oct 5, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 9, 2026, loaded Oct 9, 2026.