The Department of War has awarded nearly one million separate contracts, totaling $45 billion, to “Alaskan native” companies since fiscal year 2021, according to USASpending.gov. The most common “place of performance,” however, was Virginia. Less than 12% was spent in Alaska.
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The Department of War has awarded $45 billion in contracts to “Alaskan Native” companies in the last half-decade, fueled by minority-contracting laws. But Alaska Natives are hard to come by at the companies. Instead, the work most commonly happened in Virginia, with racial preference laws putting white, Democrat Beltway insiders in multi-million-dollar homes, while natives live in poverty.
No“Alaskannative”companygotmorecontractsthanASRCFederal,whichlistszeronativeexecutives.Thecompanyisnamedafter,andisownedby,theArcticSlopeRegionalCorporation,afor-profitumbrellacompanyrepresenting14,000InupiaqnativesinaremoteregionofAlaskaknownastheNorthSlope.Thecompanyisrankedthe111th-largestprivatecompanyinAmerica,with$5.7billioninrevenue.Itownsfivemillionacresofland,includingoilreserveswhosesaleleadst
