Bechtel National, Inc.

Bechtel National, Inc., doing business as Bechtel, is a subsidiary of Bechtel Corp that delivers large-scale engineering, construction, program management, and facilities support services to federal defense and civilian agencies as a prime contractor on $28.54 billion in combined potential value across 46 prime awards and IDVs, alongside 25 subcontract positions under primes including Northrop Grumman Systems Corp, Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC, and Electric Boat Corporation. Bechtel National competes in full-and-open procurement without set-asides, anchoring its portfolio to complex infrastructure modernization, shipyard optimization, missile defense systems engineering, and energy facility management across multiple NAICS codes including guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing, facilities support services, and other heavy and civil engineering construction.

Bechtel National's customer concentration is defense-heavy and geographically dispersed. The top customer by potential value is the Department of the Navy Naval Sea Systems Command ($10 billion combined potential value across 2 awards), followed by the Department of the Navy Naval Facilities Engineering Command ($8.01 billion across 5 awards), and the Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center Joint PEO Chemical and Biological Defense ($7.04 billion across 2 awards). These three customers account for 97% of combined potential value. By award count, however, the Federal Emergency Management Agency Incident Support Section leads with 12 awards ($896.6 million combined potential value), a signal of high-volume lower-dollar task order activity on disaster-response IDVs that diverges from the dollar concentration in Navy and Army strategic programs. The Department of the Air Force and Air Education and Training Command round out the top five by volume. Across all customer agencies, 18 distinct federal agencies place work with Bechtel National.

Bechtel National's largest parent vehicles reflect its defense and emergency-response mission. The Indefinite Delivery Contract HSFEHQ05D0572 (a FEMA emergency support vehicle) carries 10 task orders worth $894.5 million combined potential value. The Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program Hawaii MACC, awarded by Naval Facilities Engineering Command on November 10, 2021, with an $8 billion ceiling through November 9, 2029, anchors four task orders ($7.9 million combined potential value) for dry dock seismic mitigation, constructibility reviews, and preconstruction services at Pearl Harbor and Bremerton naval facilities. Recent work under SIOP Hawaii includes a $2.157 million firm fixed-price delivery order for seismic mitigation of dry docks at Bremerton (ultimate completion June 30, 2024) and a $3.525 million preconstruction services order for Project P-454 M2D2 at Naval Base Kitsap (completion December 31, 2026). Bechtel National also holds a seat on the newly awarded Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) Multiple Award IDIQ, a $151 billion ten-year defense procurement vehicle issued by the Missile Defense Agency on December 29, 2025, with an initial $500 delivery order for homeland defense systems engineering, research and development, prototyping, weapons design, test and evaluation, and advanced technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning across multiple classification levels through December 28, 2035. The vendor also holds a position on the OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award contract (awarded December 17, 2024, through December 16, 2029), though this contract is currently in dormancy.

Award activity shows modest growth: 6 awards in 2021 declining to 1 in 2022, then 4 in 2023, 9 in 2024, and 8 in 2025. Three awards with combined potential value of $4.55 billion face ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months, presenting recompete exposure for the vendor and opportunity for competitors.

In its subcontractor role, Bechtel National primarily supports strategic weapons and nuclear facility operations. It delivers engineering and manufacturing development, early production, and deployment support for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missile program under Northrop Grumman Systems Corp (multiple sub awards between May and October 2025). It serves as a major subcontractor to Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC on management and operating contracts for the Y-12 National Security Complex and Pantex Plant (11 sub awards between February 2024 and November 2024), providing incremental and reimbursable funding support for nuclear weapons complex operations. Bechtel National also subcontracts to Electric Boat Corporation on submarine construction (SSBN 826 streamlined changes), and to Deloitte Consulting LLP on submarine workforce and industrial base expansion under a May 2025 sub award.

Service Contract Inventory data, which captures federal service contracts above the $150,000 reporting threshold and excludes goods, products, and classified work, shows SCI-reported invoiced revenue of $361.3 million across prime records in FY2022–FY2023 ($131.8 million in FY2022 across 315 FTEs and $229.5 million in FY2023 across 371 FTEs). Government-paid hourly rates on SCI-reportable prime contracts ran with a median of $199.40/hr, ranging from $167.81/hr at the 10th percentile to $230.99/hr at the 90th percentile. Across SCI prime contracts, subcontractors performed approximately 13% of total hours, with 36 named subcontractors reported. SCI data represents a strict subset of Bechtel National's total federal services footprint and excludes the major capital construction and fixed-price shipyard work represented by the SIOP Hawaii and SHIELD vehicles.

Bechtel National operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bechtel Corp and maintains nine named subsidiaries including Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation, Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC, Savannah River Site Solutions LLC, Bechtel Advanced Waste Solutions Inc., National Aerospace Solutions LLC, and others, with subsidiary names signaling specialist capabilities in marine propulsion, environmental remediation, aerospace, and weapons complex operations. The corporate structure reflects the parent company's diversified federal footprint across defense, energy, infrastructure, and emergency management domains.