Federal contractor · LAKE CHARLES, LA

BRISTOW LLC

BRISTOW LLC received -$5.9M in federal contract obligations in FY2026, on 4 awards (−121% vs FY2025). Since FY2017: $280.8M. Its largest customer was Departmental Offices (-$5.9M).

Obligations · FY2026: -$5.9M
New awards: 4
Sole-source: —
Single offer: —

UEI: VPTGBJSKFVS2
Parent company: BRISTOW GROUP INC.

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Spending by fiscal year

Obligations per federal fiscal year (October–September).

42.9MFY2017
27MFY2018
34.3MFY2019
32.8MFY2020
31.8MFY2021
30.1MFY2022
30.1MFY2023
30.2MFY2024
27.3MFY2025
-5.9MFY2026

Top buying agencies

Obligations in FY2026.

Departmental Offices-$5.9M0.0%
4 awards

What was bought · Where the work was performed

Obligations in FY2026.

What was bought

Where the work was performed

Integrity signals

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

Largest awards

FY26 BSEE HELICOPTER FLIGHT SERVICES$32M
Departmental Offices· Orleans Parish, LA· Transportation & logistics· Aug 15, 2025 – Mar 9, 2026· 140D0425FE002
FY25 BSEE HELICOPTER SERVICES$28.9M
Departmental Offices· Orleans Parish, LA· Transportation & logistics· Sep 16, 2024 – Mar 31, 2026· 140D0424FE002
USCG FLIGHTS$135.6K
Departmental Offices· Orleans Parish, LA· Transportation & logistics· Aug 12, 2025 – Aug 7, 2026· 140D0425F0756
USCG FLIGHTS$111K
Departmental Offices· Orleans Parish, LA· Transportation & logistics· Aug 18, 2026 – Sep 22, 2026· 140D0426F0992

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 1 market (agency × industry), FY2024–FY2026.

BRIDGER AEROSPACE GROUP, LLC$46.5M+32% in FY2026
DOVER, DE · 84% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
PATHFINDER AVIATION LLC$30.8M−17% in FY2026
ANCHORAGE, AK · 56% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation
TEMSCO HELICOPTERS INC$24M−4% in FY2026
KETCHIKAN, AK · 46% of this company's obligations are in markets they both serveDepartmental Offices · Nonscheduled air transportation

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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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 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

BRISTOW GROUP INC.AI match · 100%

Lobbying · 2025: $710K; 16 reports
Lobbying · 2023–2026: $2.4M; $2.4M in its own reports
PAC giving · 2026: $2,500; 1 PAC

Lobbying by year

2023$640K
16 reports
2024$620K
16 reports
2025$710K
16 reports
2026$380K
9 reports

Top issues

Aviation, aircraft and airlines45 reports
Transportation13 reports
Homeland security3 reports
Defense1 reports
Natural resources1 reports

Who was contacted

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES56 reports
U.S. SENATE56 reports
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)22 reports
Transportation - Dept of (DOT)10 reports
Interior - Dept of (DOI)2 reports
Natl Economic Council (NEC)2 reports
U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)2 reports
Executive Office of the President (EOP)1 reports

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

Lobbying firms hired

HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP$700K
14 reports
ROWLAND STRATEGY GROUP LLC$460K
14 reports
TEAM HALLAHAN LLC$200K
15 reports

Registrants who are individuals are counted, not named.

PAC giving to candidates by party, 2026 cycle

Democratic$1,50060%
Republican$1,00040%

PACs sponsored

BRISTOW GROUP INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (BRISTOW PAC OR BG PAC)$27.9K raised this cycle

PACs these organizations sponsor (connected organizations in FEC records). A PAC gives employees' and members' voluntary contributions, not the company's own money.

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2023–2026.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026 · 2026, 2024, 2022.

Matches: Analisa AI name judgments (entity-match@1), updated Sep 30, 2026.

Congress: members and bills

Through the organizations matched to this company: members of Congress whose campaigns received contributions from their PACs, and the bills their lobbying reports named. Shown beside the company's contracts as a comparison, not a cause.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2026 cycle

Rick Larsen$1,500
D-WA-2 · House · 1 PAC
Mike Ezell$1,000
R-MS-4 · House · 1 PAC

$2,500 of the $2,500 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 2 members of Congress.

Members whose campaigns received from its PACs, 2024 cycle

Mike Collins$1,000
R-GA-10 · House · 1 PAC

$1,000 of the $1,000 its PACs gave to federal candidates went to 1 members of Congress.

Direct and in-kind contributions the members' campaigns received (FEC), net of refunds. Party and seat are the member's current or latest.

Bills named in its lobbying reports

H.R. 3935 · FAA Reauthorization Act of 20249 reports
118th Congress · Became law · 2023–2024
S. 1939 · FAA Reauthorization Act of 20245 reports
118th Congress · Reported by committee · 2023–2024
H.R. 4213 · Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 20265 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
H.R. 4552 · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 reports
119th Congress · Introduced · 2025–2026
S. 2465 · Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20265 reports

Amounts, members and bills are as recorded, shown side by side. They say nothing about why a contribution was made, how a member voted or what a report sought. A bill number written in a report is read as the measure of the Congress its context points to (a law's number, the Congress written next to it, the title), else of the Congress then sitting.

Source: Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.

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 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.

Source: Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov), data current to Oct 7, 2026, loaded Oct 7, 2026.