Protection Engineering Consultants LLC

Protection Engineering Consultants LLC, a small business based in Dripping Springs, Texas, operates primarily as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) delivering specialized blast engineering, physical protection, vulnerability assessment, and advanced research services to defense and civilian federal agencies under the Total Small Business set-aside category. The company competes across SBIR and STTR research programs, architectural and engineering delivery orders, and IDIQs, with a strong footprint in the $38.6 million of recent obligated federal work and $92.06 billion in combined potential value driven almost entirely by a single vehicle position.

The company's customer concentration is heavily skewed toward Army engineering and defense agencies. The top five funding agencies account for 54% of recent awards by count, led by the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha (46 awards, $19.8 million combined potential value), the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (9 awards, $8.1 million), and the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (8 awards, $3.1 million). However, the combined-potential-value ranking is dominated by the Department of the Air Force, whose $92 billion in potential value reflects Protection Engineering Consultants' award as a multiple-awardee on the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC) on February 25, 2022, with performance extending through September 9, 2031. EWAAC is a $92 billion multiple-award indefinite delivery contract for armament development and related enterprise capabilities; Protection Engineering Consultants has received only one task order under EWAAC to date (a $1,000 post-award conference order in April 2022), but the vehicle position anchors the company's total potential-value exposure.

On core engineering and R&D work, Protection Engineering Consultants competes across Army Corps of Engineers indefinite delivery contracts (22 task orders under W9128F10D0039, $3.6 million; 16 task orders under W9128F13D0001, $2.8 million), a GSA Public Buildings Service five-million-dollar single-award IDIQ for blast structural engineering (awarded August 25, 2023, running through August 24, 2028), and SBIR and STTR vehicles. Recent representative prime work includes a $2.04 million SBIR Phase II award from the Missile Defense Agency (February 4, 2026) for elevated-temperature plate impact testing and Hugoniot model expansion for high-performance materials, a $299,981 DOT SBIR Phase II contract (September 29, 2025) for cybersecurity-failure mitigation, a $299,922 DOT SBIR Phase II award (July 22, 2024) for novel passenger railcar retention systems, and a $1.15 million Army STTR Phase II contract (June 30, 2023) for an automated multi-cell laser-driven ballistic test device. The company also received a $199,765 Department of Energy Office of Science project grant (February 21, 2023, CFDA 81.049) to develop NETRAT, a network risk assessment toolkit for cybersecurity applications.

Activity has grown from 6 awards in 2022 to 17 in 2025, with three awards recorded so far in 2026. The recompete cliff is modest: four awards (combined potential value $3 million) complete within the next twenty-four months. Protection Engineering Consultants' primary capability framing spans blast and structural engineering, physical protection of critical infrastructure, advanced materials testing and analysis, cybersecurity risk assessment, and defense R&D including ballistic testing systems and impulse modeling tools. Work is performed at the company's Dripping Springs facility and at customer locations nationwide, with emphasis on Army facilities (ammunition plants, ordnance storage, explosives-handling infrastructure) and federal buildings undergoing protective hardening.

The company operates as a subcontractor to large A&E and engineering firms on Army ammunition-production and explosives-facility programs. Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company Inc., a major Army and DoE engineering prime, accounts for at least 19 named sub-award records covering blast design services, explosives safety support, and protection engineering for facilities including the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent re-entry vehicle facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base, ammunition supply points at Fort Liberty, and multiple ammunition loading and assembly plants. Stantec Consulting Services Inc. has engaged Protection Engineering Consultants as a sub for the Operational Ammunition Supply Point project at Fort Liberty. Jacobs Government Services Company, Southwest Research Institute, Applied Research Associates, Mills and Schnoering Architects, Reid Middleton, and HDR Engineering also carry Protection Engineering Consultants sub-awards. Across SCI-reportable prime contracts, the vendor shows minimal sub-engagement (0% of hours), indicating it builds its own delivery teams rather than subcontracting, though its dominant role as a sub itself to Burns & McDonnell and other primes suggests a feeder relationship into larger A&E and defense contractors on complex infrastructure and weapons-system programs.

The Service Contract Inventory dataset captures 16 records (3 prime, 13 as named subcontractor) from FY2022 through FY2024, with zero SCI-reportable invoiced revenue on prime contracts and approximately 0.3 FTEs delivered to the federal government in FY2024, reflecting the company's primary reliance on SBIR/STTR project grants and fixed-price delivery-order work not fully captured in SCI. The low FTE and zero prime-invoiced figures underscore that SCI is a partial view of the company's federal footprint and does not represent total enterprise revenue.

Since 2006, we have performed design, research and assessment to protect people, systems and infrastructure from natural hazards, man-made or accidental extraordinary events and deliberate attacks.