Athena Engineering & Environmental, LLC

Athena Engineering & Environmental, LLC, a Nashville-based women-owned small business, delivers architect-engineer services, environmental remediation, geotechnical engineering, and value engineering studies to federal agencies primarily as a prime contractor on indefinite delivery vehicles and delivery orders. The firm holds SBA WOSB certification and DOT certification as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise; it operates as a sole proprietorship and, across its portfolio, competes predominantly in full-and-open federal contracting rather than under set-aside restrictions, though many individual task orders carry total small business set-asides. Two named subsidiaries — Kswa - AEI JV LLC and Kswa - A & M JV, LLC — both certified as women-owned small business joint ventures and disadvantaged businesses, support delivery of specialized work.

Athena's customer concentration is dominated by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and NASA. The top five federal customers account for 75 percent of awards by count: the Corps (57 awards, $100.6 million combined potential value across all divisions), NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (60 awards, $39.3 million), the Corps Engineering District Louisville (30 awards, $29.2 million), USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Southeast Region (16 awards, $24.3 million), and the Corps Engineering District Fort Worth (27 awards, $16.7 million). The rankings by award count and by potential value track closely — the Corps anchors both volume and dollars — and together these five customers represent 87 percent of combined potential value across the 254-award portfolio. Athena's work with the Corps spans multiple indefinite delivery vehicles for dam and levee safety professional services, safety assurance reviews, value engineering studies, and infrastructure design support nationwide, while NASA work centers on environmental remediation, groundwater monitoring, and hazardous materials services at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.

Athena holds five principal parent vehicles. The largest by task-order volume is an Indefinite Delivery Contract (NNM17AA11C), held with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, under which 49 task orders worth $11.8 million have been issued for environmental remediation and facility management services. With the Army Corps, Athena places work under the Indefinite Delivery Contract W912QR16D0010 (42 task orders, $3.7 million), W9126G20D0012 (25 task orders, $3.4 million), W912QR21D0012 (23 task orders, $6.5 million), and W912QR10D0027 (17 task orders, $2 million), covering dam safety, value engineering, and professional services across multiple districts. Additionally, in January 2026, Athena was awarded a new $75 million, five-year architect-engineer IDIQ from the Corps' Risk Management Center for national dam and levee safety services, and in September and December 2025, the firm received three single-award and multiple-award indefinite delivery contracts totaling $13 million with USDA NRCS for professional land surveying services under the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio.

Representative prime work includes a $6.93 million delivery order from the USDA Southeast Region (April 2023) for a supplemental watershed plan and environmental document for irrigation channels in Puerto Rico; a $3.09 million Request for Equitable Adjustment delivery order from the Corps Engineering District Louisville (March 2022) for flood warning and emergency evacuation planning in Johnson County, Kentucky; a $2.12 million delivery order from the Corps (September 2022) for the Rio Puerto Nuevo Project in San Juan, Puerto Rico, involving scour protection design and 3D modeling; a $1.47 million delivery order from USDA NRCS Southeast Region (April 2023) for watershed planning and environmental documentation for Fentress County Water Supply; and numerous smaller delivery orders for safety assurance reviews, value engineering studies, and preliminary investigation feasibility reports ranging from $40 thousand to $540 thousand with the Corps and NASA across FY2022–FY2026.

Activity has fluctuated: 24 awards in 2022, 24 in 2023, declining to 14 in 2024, recovering to 18 in 2025, and 3 to date in 2026. Twelve awards with combined potential value of $13.2 million reach ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, representing near-term recompete exposure and opportunity for competitors. Across SCI-reportable federal service contracts (FY2022–FY2024), Athena invoiced $2.9 million: $147 thousand in FY2022 (0.1 FTEs), $348 thousand in FY2023 (1.0 FTEs), and $2.4 million in FY2024 (1.4 FTEs), indicating modest but growing delivery scale on SCI-captured work. Government-paid hourly rates on prime SCI contracts ran from a 10th percentile of $132.41 per hour through a median of $223.67 per hour to a 90th percentile of $1,588.45 per hour, reflecting a mixed portfolio of technical labor and specialized expertise. Across SCI prime contracts, Athena self-performed all work with zero subcontractor hour share, indicating a build-your-own-team delivery model on reportable services work.

In its subcontractor role, Athena supports larger engineering and environmental firms. Named primes include Jacobs Geosyntec A Joint Venture, Ch2M Hill, Tetra Tech, Stantec (both as sole and as Stantec Tetra Tech JV), Black & Veatch, Burns & McDonald, Research Triangle Institute, and others, with sub-work spanning geotechnical investigation, independent technical review of dam and lock design, safety assurance review subject matter expertise, groundwater and vapor intrusion remediation support, and cemetery and burial facility expansion design. Across the portfolio, 91 percent of awards are prime (230 of 254), positioning Athena primarily as a prime contractor rather than a feeder to larger primes, with subcontract work concentrated in specialized technical support roles on major infrastructure and environmental remediation programs.

Athena's portfolio is concentrated in engineering services (238 awards) under NAICS 541330, with secondary exposure to surveying and mapping (6 awards, NAICS 541370) and environmental consulting (5 awards). The top PSC code is Architect and Engineering—General: Other (154 awards), followed by Architect and Engineering—General: Landscaping, Interior Layout, and Designing (49 awards). The firm's capability breadth spans dam and levee safety evaluations, value engineering and cost reduction studies, floodplain and watershed planning, geotechnical and environmental site characterization, environmental remediation, hazardous materials assessment, professional land surveying, and technical consulting for federal infrastructure and environmental programs. This portfolio signals a specialist role in federal infrastructure engineering and environmental services delivery, with deep institutional relationships at the Corps of Engineers and NASA.

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