John Vollmer, chief executive officer with Amentum, and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s recent announcement of its planned acquisition of DynCorp. He addressed how the purchase would expand the combined company’s offerings, the expansive culture and the new markets that will come into play after they complete integration. 

A joint venture of Amentum, Fluor and Atkins has received a notice to proceed from the Department of Energy to begin transition activities for cleanup work at the Hanford site in Washington.

Wade “Hamp” McManus and Earl Johnson of Amentum wrote in a joint commentary published Wednesday on Defense News that the Department of Defense should pursue the establishment of a joint synthetic training environment and leverage advances in communications technology to improve the readiness of the joint force.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 4, 2020 — A joint venture between Amentum and Envirocon will offer deactivation, decommissioning and removal services to the Department of Energy through a contract vehicle worth potentially $3B over 10 years, GovCon Wire reported July 22.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 27, 2020 — Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Camille Nichols, who most recently served as vice president of business operations at Fluor's (NYSE: FLR) government business, assumed the role of executive VP for project services at Amentum, GovCon Wire reported July 16.

Ronald Hahn, executive vice president of strategic growth at Amentum, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the company’s launch and branding, and how it has led to greater growth and access to new markets. Following AECOM’s sale of its Management Services business to private equity in Feb. 2020, the newly independent company has become more responsive and diverse, expanding access to new technologies and capabilities. 

The Air Force has awarded Amentum a spot on a potential seven-year, $6.4B indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide logistics, design engineering and base operating services under the Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V contract vehicle, the company announced on Tuesday.

The Department of Energy has awarded a team that consists of Amentum, RSI EnTech and TFE a contract of an undisclosed sum to provide environmental services at over 100 nuclear sites following the completion of closure activities.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 2, 2020 — Amentum received a potential five-year, $87M contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division to engineer weapons, warfare and weapon control systems intended for military surface ships and submarines, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday.

Forfeiture Support Associates Federal, a joint venture of Science Applications International Corp. and Amentum, has secured a potential $1.3B indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity contract award to provide support services to the federal law enforcement community, FSA announced on Tuesday. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 13, 2020 — Tom Foster, former president and project manager at Savannah River Remediation, has taken a new role as chief operating officer of Amentum’s nuclear and environment strategic business, GovCon Wire reported Feb. 27.

John Vollmer, CEO of Amentum and five-time Wash100 inductee, has said the company is looking to update its technology platforms and combine these with multiple services that are intended to help government and commercial customers address missions, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday.

The former management services business of AECOM has adopted the name Amentum following its acquisition by private equity firms American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg. Germantown, Md.-based Amentum aims to offer information technology, mission assurance and intelligence support to U.S. federal agencies, allied governments and commercial clients as an independent company.

As the leader in exclusive peer networking events, virtual events and media in the government contracting (GovCon) sector, Executive Mosaic continues to expand its platform with the launch of ArchIntel Events. On October 22nd, ArchIntel Events will host the ArchIntel - AI in Competitive Intelligence Forum as its first virtual event featuring August Jackson, senior director of Marketing and Competitive Intelligence for Deltek, as the keynote speaker. 

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 9, 2020 — Byron Bright and Ronald Hahn, respectively the president of government solutions unit at KBR (NYSE: KBR) and the executive vice president of strategic growth at Amentum, have become members of the board of directors at the Professional Services Council, GovCon Wire reported June 2.