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Company type | Public |
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Industry | National security, defense, healthcare, engineering |
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Founded | February 4, 2020 in Germantown, Maryland |
Headquarters | Chantilly, Virginia, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | John Heller (CEO), Lewis George David Griffiths (Owner) |
Products | Government Services |
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Number of employees | > 53,000 (2025) |
Website | amentum.com |
Footnotes /references [1] [2] [3] |
Amentum Holdings, Inc. (formally Amentum Government Services Holding LLC) is an American government and commercial services contractor based in Chantilly, Virginia. [4] [5] The company was formed in 2020 from the spinout of AECOM's Management Services / federal group. [6] After Leidos, it is the second-largest government services (non equipment producing) contractor in the US government contracting market. [7]
Amentum was founded in 2020 as a spinout of the Management Services Group of AECOM, consisting of the non-construction parts of the company's federal work as well as its commercial operations and maintenance business. This came as a result of a process by AECOM to realign its business to focus more clearly on the architect, engineering, and construction market. [8]
In March 2024, Amentum announced the completion of its merger with Jacobs Solutions Inc.'s Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber and Intelligence businesses. [9] In September of that year, it became a publicly traded company on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "AMTM", becoming a part of the S&P 500. [10]
On April 23, 2025, Lockheed Martin announced it had agreed to buy Amentum's Rapid Business Solutions Business for $360M [11] The deal was closed in June 2025. [12]
As part of the strategy by its owners, Amentum has pursued acquisitions of other government contractors including: