Civil Works

The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works, a civilian sub-agency of the Department of Defense, manages federal contracting and grant-making for water resources, flood control, navigation, and environmental restoration projects nationwide. The Corps operates as the federal government's principal civil construction and water-management execution agency, procuring design, engineering, dredging, construction, and research services to support its mission.

The Corps has awarded 1,478 federal contracts worth $740.6 million combined potential value since 2000, with $649.3 million obligated to date. Contract award volume has declined sharply in recent years: 50 awards in 2022, 44 in 2023, 77 in 2024, 14 in 2025, and 1 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent award closed on April 7, 2026. The contractor base is highly fragmented, with 810 distinct primes across the portfolio. Among recent activity (last five years), the top five primes by award count account for 13 percent of awards; by value, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co, LLC leads with three awards worth $90.5 million combined potential value, followed by Weeks Marine, Inc. at $52.3 million across three awards and Mike Hooks, LLC at $33.2 million across five awards. These top five by value represent 26 percent of recent combined potential value. Eighty percent of awards carry no set-aside designation; 13 percent are designated Total Small Business, 4 percent are 8(a) Sole Source, and the remainder split among HBCU/MI, competitive 8(a), HUBZone, and woman-owned small business categories.

The Corps has obligated $239.5 million in federal grant dollars across 251 cooperative-agreement awards since 2013. Grant awards have been volatile: 30 awards in 2022, 7 in 2023, 33 in 2024, 2 in 2025, and 8 year-to-date in 2026. The most recent grant award closed on July 7, 2026. Grant recipients are highly fragmented across 109 distinct organizations, predominantly academic institutions. The top five recipients by award count—The Student Conservation Association, Inc., University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc., Auburn University, University of Illinois, and University of Florida—account for 26 percent of recent awards but only 8 percent of federal dollars obligated, reflecting a distribution favoring academic research partnerships and conservation groups over large single-recipient concentrations. All 251 grant awards are structured as Cooperative Agreements.

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