ICE has committed $1.15 billion to chartered removal flights this fiscal year
A single call order to CSI Aviation under the ICE Air programme opened at $300 million on October 31, 2025 and had been funded to $1.15 billion by July 29, 2026. It is the largest award in this ledger, and it buys movement, not beds.
- Current award
- $1.6B
- Award ID (PIID)
- 70CDCR26FC0000001
- Last verified
- August 20, 2026
Share with the sourcing attached
Both copied strings carry the attribution language and the canonical link, and label the reported extension figure as reported potential value rather than obligated spending.
The receipt
ICE bought charter flights for removals through a broker, CSI Aviation. The order opened at $300 million and has since been funded up to about $1.15 billion. About $668.7 million had actually been paid out at the cutoff. The government can order up to about $1.81 billion against this call order.
Contract scope as written on the federal record: “Dedicated and on-demand chartered flight services for Enforcement and Removal Operations under the ICE Air programme.”
The chain
- 01
Public money
ICE custody operations appropriations
Detention operations are funded from ICE custody operations accounts, expanded by P.L. 119-21.
No source attached - 02
Award
PIID 70CDCR26FC0000001
Call order against ICE blanket purchase agreement 70CDCR24A00000001, signed October 31, 2025, period November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026.
No source attached - 03
Contractor
CSI AVIATION, INC
Recipient of record and its own listed parent recipient. The record names the broker, not the carriers that fly the aircraft.
No source attached - 04
Facility
No facility in this record
The order buys flights. Place of performance is recorded as Killeen, Texas, which is an airfield city and not a detention facility.
No source attached - 05
Evidence boundary
Documented in the same detention system. Not presented as a causal attribution. The record below is documented alongside this funding chain, not asserted to be caused by it.
Human cost
Not established by this record
The contract record documents money, scope and dates. It documents no conditions, no treatment and no outcome for anyone held.
No source attached
Contract timeline
October 31, 2025
Step 01
Award signed
$300,000,000.00Description as recorded: “THIS CALL ORDER OBTAINS DEDICATED AND ON-DEMAND CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS UNDER THE ICE AIR PROGRAM. ICE AIR FACILITATES THE SAFE, SECURE,…”
December 11, 2025
Step 02
Modification P00001 — funding only action
$373,421,847.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT OBTAINS CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS, FACILITATING THE SAFE, SECURE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DEPORTATION OF ILLEG…”
April 24, 2026
Step 03
Modification P00002 — other administrative action
Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT OBTAINS CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS, FACILITATING THE SAFE, SECURE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DEPORTATION OF ILLEG…”
May 18, 2026
Step 04
Modification P00003 — funding only action
$44,689,386.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT OBTAINS CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS, FACILITATING THE SAFE, SECURE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DEPORTATION OF ILLEG…”
May 28, 2026
Step 05
Modification P00004 — funding only action
$119,497,588.91Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT OBTAINS CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS, FACILITATING THE SAFE, SECURE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DEPORTATION OF ILLEG…”
July 29, 2026
Step 06
Modification P00005 — funding only action
$312,795,993.00Description as recorded: “THIS CONTRACT OBTAINS CHARTERED FLIGHT SERVICES FOR ENFORCEMENT AND REMOVAL OPERATIONS, FACILITATING THE SAFE, SECURE, AND COST-EFFECTIVE TRANSPORTATION AND DEPORTATION OF ILLEG…”
October 31, 2026
Step 07
Current period of performance ends
End of the currently funded ordering period on the federal record. It is not a closeout date and it does not establish that work stopped.
Period of performance: November 1, 2025 to October 31, 2026, with a potential end of October 31, 2026 if options are exercised.
Award trajectory
How the obligation on this award moved, action by action, against the value ceilings the source reports.
- Cumulative reported obligation
- Potential value (all options) — $1,812,795,993.00
- Current value (exercised options) — $1,568,796,000.00
- Cash outlayed to date, as of 2026-08-20 — $668,722,437.99
Source: USAspending.gov award 70CDCR26FC0000001, retrieved 2026-08-20. Unit: US dollars, nominal, not inflation-adjusted.
The line steps only on dates the source records. Cash outlay is reported as a single to-date total with no action-level dates, so it is drawn as one marker at the retrieval date and never as a line across time. Each action mark is keyboard focusable.
Contract actions as a table (6) — select a modification for its evidence trace
| Action date | Mod | Action | This action | Cumulative obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31, 2025 | BPA CALL | $300,000,000.00 | $300,000,000.00 | |
| Dec 11, 2025 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $373,421,847.00 | $673,421,847.00 | |
| Apr 24, 2026 | OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION | $0.00 | $673,421,847.00 | |
| May 18, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $44,689,386.00 | $718,111,233.00 | |
| May 28, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $119,497,588.91 | $837,608,821.91 | |
| Jul 29, 2026 | FUNDING ONLY ACTION | $312,795,993.00 | $1,150,404,814.91 |
Contractor and facilities
Recipient
CSI Aviation
CSI AVIATION, INC
Broker of record on the ICE Air chartered flight call order, listed as its own parent recipient. The award record names the broker, not the carriers that operate the aircraft. Only the award records currently indexed here are totaled below.
Contractor profileThe facility record beside the money record
Evidence boundary
What the evidence establishes
- ICE committed about $1.15 billion to this call order across six dated actions between October 31, 2025 and July 29, 2026.
- The base action alone obligated $300 million; the July 29, 2026 action added about $312.8 million.
- About $668.7 million had been outlayed at the cutoff — roughly 58 cents of every committed dollar.
- Current award value is about $1.57 billion and potential value about $1.81 billion, both above the amount obligated so far.
What it does not establish
- It does not establish how many flights were flown, how many people were aboard, or where any flight went.
- It does not establish which air carriers or crews operated the flights; the record names the broker holding the call order.
- It does not establish that the remaining ceiling of about $662 million above current obligations will be ordered.
- It does not establish anything about the treatment of any person on any flight.
Human impact linkage
No harm record in this dataset is linked to this award. This project holds no flight-level records.
How this project categorizes harmOversight and intervention windows
These records live in the central leverage ledger. A date passing never closes one; it flags it for review.
No intervention window is recorded for this receipt in sources currently indexed.
Institutional channels · not windows
Standing official routes. Each establishes only that the channel exists; none implies a request, complaint, hearing, or investigation, and none carries a status or a date.
No official channel is published for this case.
Source docket
Provenance and corrections
- Source snapshot
- August 20, 2026
- Parser state
- automated parse manually reviewed
- Claim status
- verified against source
- Corrections
- None recorded