The overall disadvantaged business stuff is a requirement for taking federal funding (https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/acr/bus_ent_prog

The overall disadvantaged business stuff is a requirement for taking federal funding (https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/acr/bus_ent_program https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ac...). How screwy any given implementation becomes is of course, fully at the hands of the local authority, and whatever slush fund silliness they have in mind. From skimming through, it seems like there's an overall very soft 10% "target" in terms of disadvantaged businesses. I think the law literally says that there is a national 10% target, but individual entity (so a single airport for example) are not allowed to take that 10% as a quota or target.