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Amentum secures $591.6M Navy contract

Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services has won a $591.6 million contract from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to support eligible allied naval forces, the company announced Tuesday.

Under the contract from the NAVSEA International Fleet Support Program Office, Amentum will provide life-cycle support and follow-on technical solutions — including system upgrades; systems integration support; training; and efforts related to transferring, acquiring, operating and maintaining naval vessels — to foreign military sales customers.

“As a longtime partner for the U.S. Navy, we enable technological advances and engineering solutions to provide important international fleet support and secure the interests of our nation and our allies around the world,” Jill Bruning, president of Amentum’s Engineering, Science and Technology Group, said in a statement.

Amentum has more than 35,000 employees in 79 countries. The company was founded as a spinout of AECOM’s Management Services Group in 2020 and moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly in 2023.

Amentum lands $946M Army contract

Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services won a $946 million contract for maintenance of a U.S. Army aircraft fleet, the company announced Monday.

Under the hybrid firm-fixed price contract, Amentum will complete system maintenance and modernization for the Army’s fixed-wing transport aircraft fleet, providing life-cycle services like sustainment and logistics for a combined fleet of 150 aircraft, which includes C-12, C-26, T-6 and UC-35 aircraft.

“Leveraging Amentum’s expertise performing these services, this win demonstrates the U.S. Army’s confidence in Amentum’s ability to manage a large-scale complex program while maintaining a quality and long-term solutions approach,” Karl Spinnenweber, president of Amentum’s Critical Missions Group, said in a statement.

Stevens Aerospace and Defense Systems’ location in Greenville, South Carolina, will be the primary depot maintenance facility. Work will be performed in various domestic and international locations.

The contract has one base year and five one-year options.

Amentum has more than 35,000 employees in 79 countries. The company was founded as a spinout of AECOM’s Management Services Group in 2020 and moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly in 2023.

Amentum wins $327M Army contract

Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services has won a U.S. Army contract worth up to $326.9 million, the company announced Monday.

Under the five-year contract, Amentum will engineer, integrate and test prototype technologies for the Army’s command, control, communication, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C5ISR) systems.

The contractor will provide tech and engineering support for the Prototyping, Integration and Testing Division projects. It will also design, develop and building C5ISR systems, components, installation kits and other parts for integration into vehicular, airborne and other platforms and into fixed and relocatable sites.

The Army is managing the program out of the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

Amentum has more than 44,000 employees across 85 countries. It moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly earlier this year.

Federal Contractors | Technology 2023: JOHN HELLER

When Heller was named CEO of federal contractor Amentum in March 2022, he had just spent seven years directing growth strategy for Falls Church-based PAE, taking it from a $1.6 billion company to one valued at $2.76 billion. Amentum purchased PAE for $1.9 billion in cash in 2022 and moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly in February.

With more than 44,000 employees worldwide, including 6,000 in Virginia, Amentum was founded as a spinout of AECOM’s Management Services Group in 2020, the same year Amentum purchased McLean private military contractor DynCorp International. In March, Amentum won a 15-year, $4.6 billion Air Force contract.

Heller graduated from West Point with a math degree and received an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, where he serves on the Chancellor’s Global Advisory Council at Pitt. He actively supports the American Heart Association and was chairman for the 2014 Greater Washington Heart Walk.

Amentum-led team receives $5.87B nuke cleanup contract

A team led by Chantilly-based federal contractor Amentum Services Inc. will manage the decontamination and decommissioning of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons complex under a $5.87 billion, 10-year contract announced by the U.S. Department of Energy Thursday.

Southern Ohio Cleanup Company LLC, based in Aiken, South Carolina, is a joint venture led by Amentum Environment and Energy Inc., and includes Texas-based Fluor Corp. and Cavendish Nuclear Inc, a subsidiary of London-based Babcock International Group. Under the contract, the companies will handle the demolition and disposal of facilities, process equipment, related process buildings and other ancillary facilities at the 3,777-acre Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon, Ohio. The contract also includes remediation of contaminated soils and groundwater and disposition of uranium material.

The Ohio plant operated from 1954 to 2001 and was initially built to produce enriched uranium to support the nation’s nuclear weapons program and later switched to enriching uranium for commercial nuclear reactors. Weapons-grade uranium enrichment ceased at the site following the Cold War and production facilities were leased to the private sector.

“Amentum and our heritage companies have a long history of supporting the DOE’s environmental management program and have managed numerous decontamination and decommissioning projects across the DOE complex. Our extensive experience at the Oak Ridge Reservation enables us to bring advanced technical solutions to complete the work safely and effectively at Portsmouth,” Amentum CEO John Heller said in a statement Monday, referring to the company’s work at the Tennessee-based Superfund site established during World War II to process material for nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project. “We will partner with our DOE client, regulators and community stakeholders to further advance the Department of Energy’s mission.”

Amentum moved its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly earlier this year. The company has more than 44,000 employees in 85 countries, including locations across Virginia in Alexandria, Arlington County, Chantilly, Dahlgren, Falls Church, Fredericksburg and Norfolk.

Amentum to relocate headquarters to Chantilly

Aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc. is consolidating its operations and moving its headquarters from Germantown, Maryland, to Chantilly, a move that will add 157 jobs, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Monday.

The relocation comes a little more than a year after Amentum completed its $1.9 billion all-cash purchase of Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. The move across the Potomac River includes an investment of $495,000. Virginia competed with Maryland for the project.

“Fairfax County offers the location, access to decision-makers, and talent pipeline that global providers like Amentum are seeking, and we are proud to welcome the company’s leadership and operations team to Virginia,” Youngkin said in a statement. “Amentum joins the ranks of the commonwealth’s diversified ecosystem of more than 800 corporate headquarters across a broad cross-section of industries.”

The new headquarters consolidates operations at Amentum’s office at 4800 Westfields Blvd.

“The relocation of our company headquarters to Chantilly grants more convenient access not only for our local employees, customers and partners, but also for everyone in our extended team who are doing business in the Washington, D.C., area,” Amentum CEO John Heller said in a statement. “We look forward to strengthening our connections with and expanding our business in the Northern Virginia area and establishing our new headquarters as the ideal centralized location for our global organization.”

Amentum has more than 44,000 employees in 85 countries, including locations across Virginia in Alexandria, Arlington County, Chantilly, Dahlgren, Falls Church, Fredericksburg and Norfolk.

The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority to secure the project for Virginia.

PAE’s former head named Amentum CEO

John Heller, the former CEO of Falls Church-based contractor PAE Inc., will serve as CEO of Germantown, Maryland-based aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc., which purchased PAE earlier this month. Heller, who led PAE for seven years until March 2021, will take his new post effective March 28, Amentum announced Thursday.

”It is an honor to be asked to lead Amentum into the future,” Heller said in a statement. “I am extremely excited about the opportunity to work together with Amentum’s over 50,000 employees to deliver value to our customers in one of the largest and fastest growing service companies in our industry.”

John Vollmer, who has been Amentum’s CEO since January 2020, will continue with the company as chair of Amentum’s board of directors.

Before joining PAE, Heller served as senior vice president and chief operating officer of Engility Corp. Prior to that, he was president of the professional support services division of L-3 Communications Holdings. He had previously served as president and COO of Multimax, which Harris Corp. acquired in 2007, and then as CEO of Netco Inc.

Dallas-based infrastructure consulting company AECOM spun off its federal business arm on Feb. 1, 2020, forming Amentum. Post-acquisition of PAE, Amentum has about 57,000 employees across the seven continents. In November 2020, Amentum purchased McLean-based DynCorp International.

Amentum seals deal on $1.9B PAE acquisition

The $1.9 billion, all-cash acquisition of Falls Church-based government contractor PAE Inc. (Pacific Architects and Engineers) by an affiliate of Germantown, Maryland-based aerospace defense contractor Amentum Services Inc. has closed, the two companies have announced.

The  deal, which closed Feb. 15, was first announced in October 2021 and PAE’s stockholders voted to approve the deal on Feb. 10.

“Over the past 66 years, the PAE brand has become recognized for achieving success through global mission services around the world,” PAE Interim President and CEO Charlie Peiffer said in a statement. “Thanks to our new team at Amentum, we will continue to provide world-class support to our clients with the best growth opportunities for our employees. I would like to thank every employee for their continued commitment to our mission and I’m looking forward to our future at Amentum.”

PAE common stock and warrants have stopped trading on and are no longer listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Upon closing, PAE stockholders were entitled to receive $10.05 in cash for each share of their PAE common stock.

“Acquiring PAE is a meaningful step forward in our commitment to being the best partner to our clients,” Amentum CEO John Vollmer said. “We look forward to bringing the best people and the most differentiated solutions to support our clients’ success across defense and civilian agencies while accelerating our growth in intelligence and technology services.”

A Fortune 1000 company, PAE employs about 20,000 workers across approximately 60 nations; Amentum has about 57,000 employees on all seven continents.

Founded in California in 1955 by engineer Edward Shay, PAE was acquired in 2006 by Lockheed Martin Corp., which moved PAE’s headquarters to Virginia. The company was sold to Lindsay Goldberg and then Platinum Equity before debuting as a publicly-traded company on the Nasdaq in 2020.