Applied Environmental Awarded $50 Million Pentagon Resiliency Contract
rndon, Virginia firm secured a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery deal to provide environmental, planning and resiliency support across Pentagon and Defense Department sites through January 2032.
HERNDON, VIRGINIA — Applied Environmental Inc, a Herndon, Virginia, technical-services firm, received a $50 million Defense Department contract to supply environmental and resiliency support across the Pentagon and other military sites, as announced on war.gov.
The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity award carries contract number HQ003426DE019 and runs through an estimated completion date of Jan. 31, 2032, according to war.gov. The department obligated $2.5 million at the time of the award and holds the remaining ceiling for options. The scope covers environmental, planning and resiliency technical support, including multimedia environmental compliance, incident response and recovery, natural resources management, and cultural resources support. Washington Headquarters Services, based in Arlington, Virginia, is the contracting activity.
Crews will perform the work at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and the Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia, according to war.gov. Additional performance sites include Defense Department facilities in Fairfield, Pennsylvania, and Falls Church, Virginia. The contract concentrates the effort inside the national capital region, where the department maintains its largest concentration of headquarters staff.
The award benefits a mid-tier contractor by locking in a multiyear revenue stream tied to compliance and disaster-readiness work. It commits the Defense Department to a single vendor for a broad slate of environmental services, a structure that trades competitive re-bidding for continuity. Taxpayers carry the cost, while installation managers gain a standing team for spills, storms and regulatory reviews.
Indefinite-delivery contracts have long served as the Pentagon’s preferred tool for open-ended technical work, letting officials order services as needs arise rather than fixing quantities upfront. The structure spreads a ceiling across several years and multiple task orders. A $50 million ceiling places this award well below the department’s largest environmental vehicles, some of which exceed $1 billion across a contractor pool, but it matches the scale typical of single-award regional support deals.
For the average reader, the contract translates into the routine machinery that keeps federal buildings compliant with environmental law and prepared for emergencies. Resiliency and incident-response work shapes how quickly a flooded or contaminated federal site returns to service. Those functions rarely draw attention until a failure occurs.
This has happened before. The Defense Department routinely awards environmental and resiliency support contracts to firms clustered in the Washington suburbs, and indefinite-delivery vehicles for compliance work are a standard fixture of the federal procurement calendar. Similar awards appear across the department’s daily contract announcements throughout the year.
Washington Headquarters Services will manage task orders and future funding decisions under the contract. A specific date for the next obligation or task order has not been announced. The estimated completion date remains Jan. 31, 2032, unless options extend or curtail the work.
Environmental stewardship at the Pentagon has produced friction before. In 2007, the Defense Department reached a settlement with Virginia regulators over stormwater and cleanup obligations tied to Pentagon-area operations, according to war.gov, part of a broader pattern of installations reconciling military activity with environmental rules. Those disputes pushed the department toward standing technical-support arrangements like this one, keeping specialists on call rather than assembled after a problem surfaces.
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