Amentum (company) explained

Amentum Services, Inc.
Type:	Private
Founded:	Germantown, Maryland
Location:	Chantilly, Virginia
Area Served:	Worldwide
Key People:	John Heller (CEO)
Industry:	National security, defense, healthcare, engineering
Num Employees:	> 50,000
Num Employees Year:	2022
Revenue:	> billion
Revenue Year:	2021
Products:	government services
Homepage:	amentum.com
Footnotes:	^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Amentum Services, Inc. (formally Amentum Government Services Holding LLC) is an American government and commercial services contractor based in Chantilly, Virginia.^{[4] [5]} The company was formed in 2020 from the spinout of AECOM's Management Services / federal group.^[6] After Leidos, it is the second-largest government services (non equipment producing) contractor in the US government contracting market.^[7]

History

Amentum was founded in 2020 as a spinout of the Management Services Group of AECOM, consisting of the non-construction parts of the company's federal work as well as its commercial operations and maintenance business. This came as a result of a process by AECOM to realign its business to focus more clearly on the architect, engineering, and construction market.^[8]

Amentum traces its AECOM roots back to several well-known government contracting firms that now form the basis of its current work. These firms came to be a part of the company by way of AECOM's acquisition of URS Corporation and include EG&G, Washington Group International, Westinghouse Government Services, and Lear Siegler.^[9]

Growth through acquisitions

As part of the strategy by its owners, Amentum has pursued acquisitions of other government contractors including:

• 2020 - DynCorp^{[10] [11]}
• 2022 - PAE^[12]

Notable Projects

• Training of all US Army helicopter pilots at Fort Rucker for the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence^[13]
• Various operations roles for nuclear remediation at the Savannah River Site and the Hanford Site^[14]
• Operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - the US nuclear waste repository
• Elimination of chemical and biological weapons under the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program as well as the creation of labs to study diseases^[15]
• Operates the Nevada Test and Training Range^[16]
• Operations of the Kennedy Space Center

See also

• Top 100 Contractors of the U.S. federal government

External links

• • Amentum recruits for Washington's acoustic intelligence battle with China in Pacific, Intelligence Online, May 9, 2024 (requires free registration)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Key Locations . amentum.com . 4 June 2023.
2. Web site: Amentum to Acquire PAE Incorporated . . 2021-10-25 . 2023-10-27 .
3. News: Staff Writer . John Heller Tapped as Amentum CEO . WashingtonExec . WashingtonExec . 2022-02-24 . 2022-07-06 .
4. Web site: Chanel . 2023-02-07 . Amentum Awarded $487M Contract to Deliver Logistics Solutions for U.S. Military Equipment . 2023-02-23 . Amentum . en-US.
5. Web site: Key Locations . 2023-02-23 . Amentum . en-US.
6. News: Wilkers . Ross . What's next for 'Amentum' after AECOM spinoff . Washington Technology . Washington Technology . 2020-02-04 . 2022-07-06 .
7. News: Leuthy . Cameron . Levinson . Rob . The 200 government contractors shaping the federal market . Bloomberg Government . Bloomberg . 2021-06-01 . 2022-07-06 .
8. Web site: Management Services Sale . AECOM . Press Releases . 2020-01-30 . 2022-07-06 .
9. Web site: Corporate Lineage . Amentum . 2022-07-06 .
10. News: Wilkers . Ross . How the Amentum-DynCorp deal came to be in a COVID world . Washington Technology . Washington Technology . 2020-09-28 . 2022-07-06 .
11. News: Biesecker . Cal . Amentum Closes Deal For DynCorp . Defense Daily . Defense Daily . 2020-11-24 . 2022-07-06 .
12. News: Losey . Stephen . Amentum closes $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE . DefesneNews . DefenseNews . 2022-02-15 . 2022-07-06 .
13. News: Keller . Katie . Amentum Awarded US Army Contract for Flight and Simulator Training . ClearanceJobs . ClearanceJobs . 2021-01-07 . 2022-07-06 .
14. News: Barber . Wayne . Amentum is New Name With Familiar Faces to DOE Crowd, Executive Says . Exchange Monitor . Exchange Monitor . 2020-02-07 . 2022-07-06 .
15. News: Pasternack . Alex . Why The U.S. Is Building A High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab In Kazakhstan . Motherboard . Popular Science . 2013-08-29 . 2022-07-06 .
16. News: Wilkers . Ross . AECOM books $3.1B test range services contract . Washington Technology . Washington Technology . 2018-05-23 . 2022-07-12 .