Amentum (company)
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | National security, defense, healthcare, engineering |
| Predecessor |
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| Founded | February 4, 2020 in Germantown, Maryland |
| Headquarters | Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | John Heller (CEO), Lewis George David Griffiths (Owner) |
| Products | Government Services |
| Revenue |  US$14.4 billion (2025) |
| US$480 million (2025) | |
| US$66 million (2025) | |
| Owner | |
Number of employees | > 53,000 (2025) |
| Website | amentum.com |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3][4] | |
Amentum Holdings, Inc. (formally Amentum Government Services Holding LLC) is an American government and commercial services contractor based in Chantilly, Virginia.[5][6] The company was formed in 2020 from the spinout of Aecom's Management Services / federal group.[7] After Leidos, it is the second-largest government services (non equipment producing) contractor in the US government contracting market.[8]
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.[9]
In March 2024, Amentum announced the completion of its merger with Jacobs Solutions.'s Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses.[10] In September of that year, it became a publicly traded company on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "AMTM", becoming a part of the S&P 500.[11]
On April 23, 2025, Lockheed Martin announced it had agreed to buy Amentum's Rapid Business Solutions Business for $360M [12] The deal was closed in June 2025.[13]
Growth through acquisitions
As part of the strategy by its owners, Amentum has pursued acquisitions of other government contractors including:
Notable projects
- Training of all US Army helicopter pilots at Fort Rucker for the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence[17]
- Various operations roles for nuclear remediation at the Savannah River Site and the Hanford Site[18]
- 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[19]
- Operation of the Nevada Test and Training Range[20]
- Operations of the Kennedy Space Center
- Operation of the Eastern and Western Space Force Ranges[21][22]
- Operations at ICE detention facility Camp East Montana in the Fort Bliss and El Paso, Texas area[23]
See also
References
- ^ "Key Locations". amentum.com. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
- ^ "Amentum to Acquire PAE Incorporated". Business Wire. 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2023-10-27.
- ^ "Amentum Reports Fiscal Year 2025 Results". businesswire.com. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
- ^ Staff Writer (2022-02-24). "John Heller Tapped as Amentum CEO". WashingtonExec. WashingtonExec. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Chanel (2023-02-07). "Amentum Awarded $487M Contract to Deliver Logistics Solutions for U.S. Military Equipment". Amentum. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ "Key Locations". Amentum. Retrieved 2023-02-23.
- ^ Wilkers, Ross (2020-02-04). "What's next for 'Amentum' after AECOM spinoff". Washington Technology. Washington Technology. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Leuthy, Cameron; Levinson, Rob (2021-06-01). "The 200 government contractors shaping the federal market". Bloomberg Government. Bloomberg. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ AECOM (2020-01-30). "Management Services Sale". Press Releases. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ APDR (2024-10-02). "Amentum merges with Jacobs' units". APDR. Retrieved 2025-07-10.
- ^ Tiron, Roxana (September 27, 2024). "Amentum Seeks Greater Space, Tech Reach As Public Trading Debuts". Bloomberg Government.
- ^ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/lockheed-martin-to-buy-amentum-s-hardware-business-for-360-million-99ff5bef
- ^ Blinde, Loren (2025-06-27). "Lockheed Martin acquires Amentum's Rapid Solutions business". Intelligence Community News. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
- ^ Wilkers, Ross (2020-09-28). "How the Amentum-DynCorp deal came to be in a COVID world". Washington Technology. Washington Technology. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Biesecker, Cal (2020-11-24). "Amentum Closes Deal For DynCorp". Defense Daily. Defense Daily. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Losey, Stephen (2022-02-15). "Amentum closes $1.9 billion acquisition of PAE". DefesneNews. DefenseNews. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Keller, Katie (2021-01-07). "Amentum Awarded US Army Contract for Flight and Simulator Training". ClearanceJobs. ClearanceJobs. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Barber, Wayne (2020-02-07). "Amentum is New Name With Familiar Faces to DOE Crowd, Executive Says". Exchange Monitor. Exchange Monitor. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Pasternack, Alex (2013-08-29). "Why The U.S. Is Building A High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab In Kazakhstan". Motherboard. Popular Science. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
- ^ Wilkers, Ross (2018-05-23). "AECOM books $3.1B test range services contract". Washington Technology. Washington Technology. Retrieved 2022-07-12.
- ^ "Amentum's Jacobs Technology Inc. Selected for $4B Space Force Range Contract". Amentum. 2025-08-18. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
- ^ "Space Systems Command Award Advances Eastern and Western Range Capability". SSC Public Affairs. 2025-06-03. Retrieved 2025-12-30.
- ^ Asher-Schapiro, Avi (2025-07-25). "His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He's Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp". ProPublica. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
External links
- Official website
- Business data for Amentum Holdings, Inc.:
- Amentum recruits for Washington's acoustic intelligence battle with China in Pacific, Intelligence Online, May 9, 2024 (requires free registration)