Kswa - AEI JV LLC

Kswa - AEI JV LLC, a woman-owned small disadvantaged business joint venture, provides geotechnical engineering, subsurface drilling, laboratory testing, and infrastructure investigation services to the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers and Department of the Interior as a prime contractor on 100% of its recent federal awards. The company is a self-certified small disadvantaged business and WOSB operating as a limited liability company headquartered in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, with a parent relationship to Athena Engineering & Environmental, LLC, also a WOSB. Kswa-AEI's work sits entirely within Total Small Business set-aside and competitive (no set-aside) delivery orders against two large indefinite delivery vehicles held with federal agencies.

The company's customer base concentrates almost exclusively on civil-works and infrastructure-assessment missions. The Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for 100% of the top-customers-by-potential-value ranking, representing 14 awards with $43 million in combined potential value; the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters adds 1 award valued at $25 million as the second-largest potential-value customer. A $25 million multiple-award IDIQ for geotechnical services with the Army Corps of Engineers (effective through July 5, 2027) has generated 11 task orders worth $5.2 million combined potential value since award on July 6, 2022. A second $25 million multiple-award IDIQ with the Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (effective through April 24, 2027) has generated 6 task orders worth $6.1 million. Representative delivery-order work includes a $2.8 million MKARNS survey task order for the Corps (June 2023, completed August 2024), a $1.56 million Black Rock Lock comprehensive geotechnical investigation Task 6 order (August 2024), a $995,245 Kentucky Lock exploratory drilling task (June 2023), a $1.34 million Center Hill Embankment and Dale Hollow Abutment geophysical survey for Department of the Army (March 2026, due January 2027), and subsurface investigations and laboratory testing work at multiple locks, levees, and embankments across Tennessee, West Virginia, New York, Minnesota, and Oklahoma.

Activity has remained flat to slightly declining: four awards in 2022, four in 2023, six in 2024, two in 2025, and one in 2026. Only one award (valued at $1.3 million) faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, exposing minimal recompete risk in the immediate window. The company has obligated $9.3 million of its $70.8 million combined potential value across all awards (13% utilization rate), suggesting substantial unexercised capacity on the two primary IDIQs. All NAICS coding falls under Engineering Services, with performance locations distributed across multiple Corps of Engineers districts and Department of Interior regions, including work at critical civil-works infrastructure such as locks, levees, dam remediation projects, and vessel yards nationwide. Kswa-AEI operates exclusively as a prime on federal awards with no recorded subcontract activity in the source data.