The management and operations contractor for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will retain its AECOM branding, even though a private-equity partnership bought that company’s government contract business and rebranded it as Amentum.
“AECOM E&C Holdings remains intact and still part of LLNS, LLC [Lawrence Livermore National Security] so we have retained the logo,” a spokesperson for the lab wrote Thursday in an email.
AECOM E&C Holdings was part of AECOM Management Services, filings with the Federal Trade Commission and the European Commission show. It went with that division as it was rebranded the separate company Amentum following its Jan. 31 sale for $2.4 billion to private equity managers Lindsay Goldberg and American Securities.
Amentum remains a major player in the DOE nuclear weapons complex, with about $4 billion in annual revenue and a workforce of roughly 20,000 spread across 48 states and internationally, according to the company. It also owns URS, bought by AECOM in 2014 after itself acquiring Washington Group International in 2007.
Other DOE contractors, such as Savannah River Site liquid waste manager Savannah River Remediation, have swapped in references to Amentum where AECOM used to be.
Lawrence Livermore National Security is a for-profit, public-private partnership managed by the University of California and Bechtel National, with junior partners AECOM — or Amentum — and BWX Technologies, along with subcontractor Battelle Memorial Institute and affiliate Texas A&M.
The prime’s roughly $2-billion-a-year contract with the National Nuclear Security Administration expires Sept. 30, 2024, but the agency holds options that would stretch it out to Sept. 30, 2026. The agency awarded the pact, with a 7-year base one-year options after that, in 2007.
