Jensen Hughes, Inc.

Jensen Hughes, Inc., headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, is a for-profit engineering and consulting firm that delivers fire protection engineering, life safety assessments, forensic analysis, and specialized technical research to the federal government as a prime contractor (88% of recent awards) without set-aside designations, operating full-and-open across 95 customer agencies with a portfolio anchored in defense and civilian infrastructure work.

Jensen Hughes operates across a broad customer base spanning the Department of the Navy (168 awards, $65.7 million combined potential value at the Office of Naval Research alone), the Department of Transportation (96 awards, $20.4 million), and the Department of Defense Washington Headquarters Service (24 awards, $122.2 million combined potential value), with particular concentration in fire protection systems design, battery and energy-storage fire-safety research, naval shipboard safety, and rail-car fire-performance testing. The top five funding agencies account for 50% of recent awards, but the top five by potential value skew toward Washington Headquarters Service and ONR—together representing 41% of combined potential-value dollars. The divergence reflects the vendor's portfolio mix: high-volume task orders under GSA and transportation IDIQs paired with eight-figure single awards from WHS for fire protection engineering and life safety services.

Recent prime contract work includes a $4.442 million Air Combat Command power-systems modeling and analysis delivery order (June 2025, GSA MAS), a $22.454 million Washington Headquarters Service fire protection engineering IDIQ delivery order (July 2023, running through April 2028), a $1.2 million Office of Naval Research delivery order for survivability and fire protection systems research (February 2026), and multiple Federal Railroad Administration definitive contracts for lithium-ion battery fire-hazard modeling ($313.8 thousand, September 2026) and rail-car interior material flammability research ($194.9 thousand, September 2026). The vendor also holds a $150 million Air National Guard non-personal architect-engineer IDIQ for fire suppression services across all 50 states and territories (January 2024–January 2029) and sits on the OASIS+ Unrestricted multiple-award GWAC (April 2025–April 2030) alongside a GSA Multiple Award Schedule position.

Federal grant activity complements the contract footprint. Jensen Hughes holds prime recipient awards from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for fire dynamics research using the Fire Dynamics Simulator, including a $100 thousand project grant for material pyrolysis modeling (FY2024–FY2025) and prior work on battery energy storage system (BESS) heat-transfer prediction (FY2025–FY2026). The vendor is also a prime recipient on a cooperative agreement with the Community Oriented Policing Program (COPS Office) for a Critical Response Program providing technical assistance to law enforcement agencies on operational reform, community engagement, and threat response (October 2024–September 2027, running concurrently with a prior phase from September 2022). The National Institute of Justice awarded a project grant for advanced fire-pattern detection using terahertz spectroscopy and machine learning (January 2025–December 2027).

As a subcontractor, Jensen Hughes performs fire protection engineering, code compliance, and life-safety consulting under primes including Stantec Consulting Services, Fluor Federal Petroleum Operations, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, Eastern Research Group, Noblis, Steven Kahle Architects, and Electric Boat Corporation, delivering fire-hazard analysis, facility evaluations, and design support on naval shipyard projects, strategic petroleum reserve facilities, weapons-development installations, and defense infrastructure modernization work. The subcontract footprint reflects the vendor's specialization: fire suppression, fire-protection system design, and forensic or hazard analysis nested within larger A&E and facilities-management contracts. Grant sub-awards include corrosion-prevention and control work under the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences and wildland-urban interface risk analysis under University of California, Santa Barbara.

Activity has remained steady but cyclical. Awards per year fluctuated from 22 in 2023 to 42 in 2024 and 30 in 2025, with 10 awards recorded in the first ten months of 2026. Eleven awards (combined potential value $29.5 million) reach ultimate completion inside the next twenty-four months and face recompete. Service Contract Inventory data show minimal SCI-reportable federal services revenue ($1.9 million cumulative across FY2022–FY2025, concentrated in FY2022 at $1.8 million), reflecting the vendor's contract-heavy profile rather than labor-hour staffing. Across SCI prime records, government-paid hourly rates ran from $104 to $520 per hour, with a median around $160 per hour. The GSA Schedule labor portfolio spans 35 categories from administrators and technical writers at $116–$180 per hour through senior project managers, forensic psychologists, and partner-level roles priced to $441 per hour, requiring education from associate through doctorate and clearances from none through Top Secret where applicable.

Jensen Hughes operates through three named subsidiaries: Safety Management Services Inc., Jensen Hughes Korea Co., LTD., and Jensen Hughes Co., LTD. The vendor builds its own delivery teams on prime work with minimal subcontractor reliance on SCI-reportable contracts, operating as both a prime and nested subcontractor depending on the engagement, and competes across multiple GSA and agency-specific vehicles without set-aside positioning.