CDM Federal Programs Corporation

CDM Federal Programs Corporation, doing business as CDM Smith, operates as the federal subsidiary and primary prime contractor of parent company CDM Smith Inc., delivering environmental remediation, water resources analysis, infrastructure engineering, and hazard mitigation services to 71 federal agencies through a portfolio of 967 prime awards (97% of recent activity) valued at a combined $6.36 billion in potential value, with no set-aside posture—the vendor competes exclusively in full and open federal procurement across all customer categories.

CDM Federal Programs concentrates its capability footprint on three core service lines: environmental site remediation and Superfund program delivery under the EPA's Remedial Acquisition Framework (72 task orders, $311 million combined potential value); water resources analysis, dam and levee safety tools, and technical consulting for the Army Corps of Engineers ($137.4 million across 106 awards); and hazard mitigation technical assistance, grant program support, and environmental compliance services for FEMA ($586.1 million across 80 awards). The vendor anchors its EPA presence through a dominant position on the RAF Design and Engineering Services IDIQ—a multi-award vehicle supporting remedial investigation, feasibility studies, and remedial design across Superfund sites nationwide—and holds single-award BPAs with FEMA valued at $99.3 million for Hazard Mitigation Technical Assistance Program non-architectural and engineering support. Recent representative contracts include a $7.6 million cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order for Lincoln Park remedial design in EPA Region 8 (awarded November 2024), a $9.07 million EPA Region 10 delivery order for Lower Duwamish Waterway remedial action oversight (August 2024), and a $7.99 million FEMA delivery order for hazard mitigation assistance national technical review support (September 2026).

Water resources work flows through a $48.3 million Water Resources Analytical and Professional Support Services IDIQ with the Army Corps of Engineers' Institute for Water Resources—a vehicle that has generated 26 delivery orders totaling approximately $16.4 million for services including dam safety toolbox enhancements, National Inventory of Dams modernization, risk analysis training instruction, and water resources planning analysis. Naval Facilities Engineering Command represents the vendor's largest single customer by award count (131 awards, $443.7 million combined potential value) and a concentrated source of utilities privatization, facility assessment, infrastructure analysis, and professional engineering services work, anchored by a $90 million single-award utilities and facilities engineering IDIQ awarded September 2025 covering Atlantic and Pacific area naval installations worldwide. The vendor holds additional significant IDIQs including a $1 billion Coast Guard architect-engineering vehicle (June 2026), a $216.875 million EPA Water Assessment and Technical Emergency Response contract for Regional Grouping B (September 2026), a $200 million Army Corps Great Lakes and Ohio River Division Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act architecture and engineering contract (May 2023), and a $99 million Air Force Space Command Malmstrom Air Force Base architect-engineering IDIQ (September 2023).

Customer concentration skews toward environmental and water agencies. EPA Region 3 dominates by potential value at $1.71 billion across 15 awards—driven primarily by large Superfund remedial design and feasibility study delivery orders. FEMA accounts for $586.1 million across 80 awards, with an additional $472 million concentrated under the FEMA Mitigation Section, reflecting the vendor's established role in post-disaster hazard mitigation and resilience programming. The top five customer agencies by potential value (EPA Region 3, FEMA, FEMA Mitigation Section, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Army Corps of Engineers) collectively represent approximately 53% of the vendor's combined potential value, indicating moderate concentration risk offset by diversification across 71 distinct agencies and a broad portfolio spanning regional EPA offices, multiple Army Corps districts, DoD installations, and civilian federal agencies including the Federal Highway Administration, International Boundary and Water Commission, and Coast Guard.

Activity has grown modestly but unevenly—35 awards in 2022, reaching a peak of 66 in 2023 before declining to 54 in 2024, 40 in 2025, and 31 year-to-date in 2026. The recompete cliff window (next 24 months) exposes 78 awards worth $277.9 million in combined potential value to competitive renewal, representing 4.4% of the vendor's total prime potential value. SCI-reported federal service contract invoicing for the vendor reached $168.7 million across FY2022–FY2025, with peak performance in FY2024 ($58.1 million invoiced across 158 FTEs) followed by a decline to $39.4 million in FY2025 across 157 FTEs—a 32% year-over-year revenue drop likely driven by contract closeouts and recompete transitions. Government-paid median hourly rates on federal service contracts run approximately $154.93/hr, with specialist and senior roles reaching $244.64/hr at the 90th percentile and entry-level clerical work at $71.68/hr at the 10th percentile. The SCI workforce trajectory shows growth from 97.4 FTEs in FY2022 to 176 FTEs in FY2025, though FY2025 invoicing decline suggests that the headcount increase reflects spread of labor across more contracts rather than revenue expansion.

The vendor operates as a highly integrated prime contractor—97% of recent awards carry prime status—and self-performs approximately 98% of labor on prime contracts, engaging specialized subcontractors at roughly 2% of total contractor hours across SCI-reportable work. Named subcontractors supporting CDM Smith prime delivery include WSP USA Environment & Infrastructure Inc. (technical assistance on FEMA hazard mitigation and environmental compliance work), Aptim Federal Services (PFAS remediation engineering on defense environmental programs), Web and Writing Solutions Company (women-owned small business providing database and software support to the Army Corps of Engineers), Texas Tech University System and North Carolina State University (PFAS research and soil flushing methodologies under SERDP contracts), and specialized providers including C.H. Guernsey & Company (utilities privatization analysis), Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories (analytical testing on EPA Superfund projects), and regional drilling and surveying firms. This subcontractor pattern reflects the vendor's strategy of maintaining direct delivery of core engineering and project management services while leveraging specialized technical partners for laboratory analysis, field investigation, and research support.

CDM Federal Programs Corporation is structured as a subsidiary of Boston-headquartered CDM Smith Inc., a parent company that also holds multiple joint ventures (CDM Smith-COWI JV, CDM Smith-Tigerbrain JV, Guernsey-CDM Smith JV, CDM-AECOM Multimedia JV, and others). The federal subsidiary operates with administrative headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia and maintains a GSA Multiple Award Schedule with 27 active labor categories spanning clerical through principal engineer and senior technical expert roles, with hourly rates ranging from $58.94 to $276.88 and no security clearance requirements. NAICS concentration runs heavily toward engineering services (424 awards), environmental consulting (159 awards), and remediation services (77 awards), consistent with the vendor's market position as a large-business environmental and infrastructure engineering firm serving federal environmental compliance, disaster response, and water resource management missions.