Etcon Inc.

Etcon Inc., doing business as JHL Construction, is a for-profit construction services company headquartered in Gatesville, Texas, that operates exclusively as a prime contractor on horizontal infrastructure and facilities maintenance projects for the U.S. Army, with 100% of its federal awards (1,297 total) held as prime contracts rather than subcontracts.

The company's federal footprint is heavily concentrated in a single customer and a single parent vehicle. The Department of the Army Installation Management Command Southwest Region accounts for 768 awards and $687.2 million in combined potential value—representing 59% of all awards and 90% of the company's total dollar exposure across its 1,297-award portfolio. Etcon holds a position on the Fort Hood Paving IDIQ, a $200 million multiple-award total small business set-aside contract awarded in April 2023 by Army IMCOM Southwest Region with a performance period through April 2028. The company has received dozens of task orders against this vehicle for diverse paving, parking lot repair, roadway rehabilitation, drainage work, and concrete services at Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood) and other Army installations in Texas. Representative work includes a $3.29 million micro-surfacing delivery order (August 2023), a $2.86 million Turkey Run Road repair (April 2024), a $1.6 million FY25 Roadway Stop Gap project (July 2025), and a $518,328 parking lot reconstruction and roadway repair at Fort Hood (April 2026). Beyond the Fort Hood Paving IDIQ, Etcon holds task order positions on several Army Corps of Engineers indefinite delivery contracts, including W9115116D0017 (210 task orders, $80.9 million combined potential value), W9115111D0004 (164 task orders, $40.4 million), and W9115113D0009 (161 task orders, $26.1 million), supporting horizontal construction and maintenance work across multiple engineering districts.

Etcon's capability portfolio centers on highway and street construction (854 awards across NAICS 231110) and other heavy and civil engineering construction (134 awards), with secondary exposure to commercial building construction (15 awards). By PSC code, the company specializes in repair or alteration of highways, roads, streets, bridges, and railways (559 awards) and construction of highways, roads, streets, bridges, and railways (114 awards), with maintenance and repair of miscellaneous buildings (44 awards) rounding out the portfolio. Work is performed at Fort Cavazos, Fort Hood, and subordinate Army installations across the Southwest Region in Texas, with some work extending to Army Corps of Engineers projects in the Fort Worth district and elsewhere. The company operates without subcontractors on its federal work.

Activity has declined in recent years. The company received 29 awards in 2022, declining to 12 in both 2023 and 2024, with only 8 awards received in 2025 and 1 award in 2026 (as of April 14, 2026). Only two awards with combined potential value of $615 thousand face ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months, creating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The company's combined obligated dollars stand at $292.9 million against a combined potential value of $765.2 million, representing a 38% obligation rate across its portfolio.

Typically a sitework contractor with ability to also perform site concrete on large commercial projects. Also a TXDOT contractor.