Protection Engineering Consultants LLC

Protection Engineering Consultants LLC, a small business based in Dripping Springs, Texas, delivers blast engineering, physical protection analysis, and vulnerability assessment services to federal agencies as a prime contractor (80% of recent awards) and as a subcontractor on larger engineering programs. The company competes predominantly under total small business set-asides and holds positions on multiple indefinite-delivery vehicles with the Army Corps of Engineers, General Services Administration, and Air Force.

The company's capability portfolio centers on architectural and engineering services for blast structural design, security hardening of federal facilities, and specialized research and development in materials testing, hypervelocity impact analysis, and cybersecurity solutions. Representative prime work includes a $2.039 million Missile Defense Agency Phase II SBIR contract (awarded February 2026) for elevated-temperature plate impact testing and Hugoniot model expansion for high-performance materials; a $1.4 million Naval Air Warfare Center cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (September 2025) for research and development services; a $1.15 million Army Research, Development and Engineering Command STTR Phase II contract (June 2023) for development of an automated multi-cell laser-driven ballistic test device; and a $5 million single-award GSA IDIQ (August 2023) for blast structural engineering and architectural and engineering services across GSA Public Buildings Service central zone properties, with recent delivery orders for detailed blast study analysis of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago ($230.6 thousand) and architectural and engineering services at Building 64 in Lakewood, Colorado ($74.2 thousand).

Customer concentration sits heavily with the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers Engineering District Omaha, which accounts for 46 awards and $19.8 million in combined potential value (about 32% of total dollars). The top five customer agencies by count represent 53% of awards: Defense Threat Reduction Agency (9 awards, $8.1 million), Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory (8 awards, $3.1 million), Department of Transportation Immediate Office of the Secretary (7 awards, $1.7 million), and Department of the Army Acquisition Support Center PEO Ammunition (6 awards). By potential value, the ranking shifts dramatically: the Department of the Air Force dominates with 2 awards carrying $46 billion in combined potential value, driven by the company's seat on the Eglin Wide Agile Acquisition Contract (EWAAC), a $46 billion multiple-award IDIQ awarded February 2022 with a base period running through September 2031. However, EWAAC has generated only one task order to date — a $1,000 firm fixed-price delivery order for an EWAAC Post Award Conference in May 2022 — indicating the vehicle is still in early-stage activation. The Army Corps of Engineers anchors the bulk of active task-order work across five primary indefinite-delivery vehicles: W9128F10D0039 (22 task orders, $3.6 million), W9128F13D0001 (16 task orders, $2.8 million), W912DQ19D4007 (11 task orders), GS09P11KTD0052 (10 task orders, $3.7 million), and 47PB0123D0003 (3 task orders, $416 thousand).

Award activity has accelerated over the past five years, growing from 6 awards in 2022 to 17 in 2025, with 4 awards recorded in 2026 to date. Only four awards are scheduled for ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months (combined potential value $2.9 million), indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure. The company's work across prime and sub contracts spans 43 distinct customer agencies, with primary concentration in engineering services (86 awards) and research and development in physical, engineering, and life sciences (26 awards), framed under PSC codes for Architect and Engineering–General services (49 awards) and defense research and development (14 awards combined).

As a subcontractor, Protection Engineering Consultants delivers blast design services, protective engineering analysis, and explosives safety support to large engineering primes, primarily Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company (bulk of recent sub work across ammunition facility design, next-generation weapon system design, and contaminated-waste facility projects), Stantec Consulting Services (operational ammunition supply point design at Fort Liberty, North Carolina), Jacobs Government Services Company, Southwest Research Institute, Applied Research Associates, Reid Middleton, HDR Engineering, and Mills and Schnoering Architects. Sub work includes full-design services for the Advanced Research Center at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey; design support for propulsion systems laboratory repair at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama; and blast design services for the DHS Detection Sciences Testing and Applied Research Transportation Security Laboratory campus. On SCI-reportable service contracts, the vendor generated $231 thousand in invoiced revenue in FY2025 across 0.6 FTEs, representing a small subset of total federal activity. The company maintains a $199.765 thousand recipient award from the Department of Energy Office of Science (February 2023, CFDA 81.049) for development of the Network Risk Assessment Toolkit (NETRAT), a cybersecurity risk assessment tool completed January 2024.

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.