Who buys NAICS 481112 (Scheduled Freight Air Transportation) work, who wins it, and what's open right now — from FY2026 USAspending awards and live SAM.gov solicitations.
Contract data as of Oct 30, 2026 (USAspending) · recent coverage verified weekly
| Quarter | Awards | Obligated | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 FY2026 | 92 | $17.7M | — |
| Q2 FY2026 | 36 | $5.8M | -67% |
| Q3 FY2026 | 11 | $4.5M | -23% |
| Q4 FY2026 · partial | 15 | $575K | -87% |
Federal fiscal quarters (Q1 = Oct–Dec). Awards are counted in the quarter they start; obligations are the award's obligated amount. The Department of Defense publishes contract awards to USAspending with a 90-day delay, so Q4 FY2026 is still missing most DoD awards (DoD is 99% of this market's dollars) — treat that quarter as incomplete, not as a spending decline.
The 1 largest incumbents hold 100% of the $2.4M expiring in the next 18 months, across 1 incumbent company. A few companies hold most of this work.
| # | Incumbent | Expiring | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PIVOTAL SPACE INC. | $2.4M | 100.0% |
Companies are corporate families (USAspending parent UEI), as in the contractor rankings. Computed Oct 30, 2026 over that day's 18-month window.
| Ends | Contract · incumbent | Obligated |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 2026 | FTX 26-1 - Unit X Suborbital Logistics Demonstration PIVOTAL SPACE INC. · Department of Defense · FA882126FB011 | $1.6M |
| Nov 20, 2026 | Liquid Cargo Packaging and Sensor PIVOTAL SPACE INC. · Department of Defense · FA882126FB010 | $500K |
| Jan 29, 2027 | Project Sierra: Mobile Suborbital Launcher Demonstration for Rocket Resupply PIVOTAL SPACE INC. · Department of Defense · FA882126FB009 | $300K |
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Contracts with at least $250K obligated whose final end date — every option exercised — falls in the window, counted from Oct 31, 2026. These are the Recompete Tracker's default filters (18 months, ≥$250K), so the figures match the tracker for NAICS 481112. “Obligated to date” is what has been obligated on the contract so far, not the value of the follow-on. An end date is when the work stops, not when the replacement is solicited — that usually happens 6–18 months earlier. Source: USAspending.gov prime awards.
| Offers received | Awards | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 6.0% |
| 2 | 4 | 3.0% |
| 3–5 | 5 | 3.7% |
| 6–10 | 0 | 0.0% |
| 11+ | 117 | 87.3% |
From FPDS fields on contract awards that started in FY2026. Offers received is recorded on 87% of these 154 awards and extent competed on 95% — much of the USAspending bulk archive leaves both blank — so each share is over the awards where the field is recorded, not all awards. FPDS's placeholder count of 999 offers is excluded. Task orders under multiple-award vehicles often report the vehicle's offer count, which inflates averages; the single-offer share is the steadier signal. “Not competed” = not competed, not competed under simplified acquisition, or not available for competition (sole-source authorities, including 8(a) directed awards).
| # | Contractor | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PIVOTAL SPACE INC. | $5.0M | 17.6% |
| 2 | ALASKA AIR GROUP, INC | $4.1M | 14.3% |
| 3 | DELTA AIR LINES, INC. | $4.0M | 13.9% |
| 4 | NATIONAL AIR CARGO GROUP, INC | $3.1M | 10.8% |
| 5 | SWIFT AIR L.L.C. | $2.1M | 7.4% |
| 6 | AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES GROUP, INC. | $1.7M | 6.1% |
| 7 | ATLAS AIR WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS, INC. | $1.6M | 5.7% |
| 8 | TATONDUK OUTFITTERS LIMITED | $1.1M | 3.9% |
| 9 | LYNDEN INC | $961K | 3.4% |
| 10 | AMERIJET INTERNATIONAL INC | $853K | 3.0% |
Registrations are rolled up to their corporate parent (USAspending parent UEI), so a company with several SAM registrations ranks once. Track record: fiscal years FY2015–FY2024 in which the company family received prime awards from any agency (USAspending.gov, by UEI; earlier years aren't loaded). Awards and obligations in this table are FY2026.
| Agency | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense | $28.2M | 98.8% |
| Department of State | $313K | 1.1% |
| Department of Homeland Security | $15K | 0.1% |
| Department of Energy | $10K | 0.0% |
| Set-aside type | Obligated | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Small business set-aside | $79K | 20.8% |
| 8(a) | $0 | 0.0% |
| SDVOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| WOSB / EDWOSB | $0 | 0.0% |
| HUBZone | $0 | 0.0% |
| No set-aside (full & open) | $299K | 79.2% |
Share of obligations on awards whose set-aside type is recorded — 1% of this market's dollars. Most USAspending bulk-archive records leave the field blank, so blank awards are excluded rather than counted as full & open.
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Source: USAspending.gov contract awards (prime awards with a start date from Oct 1, 2025 through Sep 30, 2026), SAM.gov contract opportunities, and SBA size standards. Recompetes are contracts whose final end date — options included — falls in the next 12 months. Figures are recomputed when a new USAspending load lands. See our data sources.