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Award: Border infrastructure projects
Value: Approximately $2 billion
Location: Eagle Pass, Texas; Lukeville, Arizona; Marron Valley and Campo, California
Customer: Department of National Security, Customs and Border Protection
AIS Infrastructure, a civil construction and heavy infrastructure company, has been awarded approximately $2 billion in contracts from the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, according to a Dec. 16 announcement shared with Construction Dive.
The projects are located along the southern US-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas; Lukeville, Arizona; and Marron Valley and Campo, California, east of San Diego.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-based AIS will complete the work through a subsidiary, BCSS, according to the news release. BCSS will work in a joint venture with Montgomery, Ala.-based Caddell Construction and Burnet, Texas-based Gibraltar to lead and manage the four projects.
DHS and CBP have announced billions of dollars awards in Octoberi additional contracts in Decemberto hire companies to work along the southern border.
To that end, both Caddell Construction and Gibraltar are veterans of border work: Caddell was selected by CBP for build 14 miles of new contiguous border wall in 2020, while Gibraltar has worked on more than 30 border fence segments, according to the company’s website.
Other builders, such as Granite Construction of Watsonville, Calif., have also joined the fray. The infrastructure company won the contract for the first border wall of President Donald Trump’s second term in March.
Each of the four AIS Infrastructure projects are design-build efforts currently in the engineering phase, led by Omaha, Neb.-based HDR, according to the release. Field work is expected to begin in January 2026, and construction is expected to take between 30 and 36 months per project.
The specific locations listed in the release all have a border crossing or a Border Patrol presence.
Each contract and its scope includes:
- DRT-1, $565 million, and DRT-2, $364 million, in Del Rio, Texas: focused on vertical and waterborne barriers, patrol roads, access routes and complex technical safety systems.
- SDC-1, $483 million in San Diego, California: Covers vertical barriers, access to mountains and patrol roads, and advanced technical security systems.
- TCA-1, $606 million in Tucson and Yuma, Arizona: Combining existing barrier wall improvements, new vertical barriers and drainage networks, extensive patrol and access, as well as advanced security and detection systems.
In addition, AIS Infrastructure plans to increase its workforce from 350 to 400 employees and deploy nearly 100 additional pieces of heavy equipment by March 2026 to meet the scale and complexity of the work, according to the announcement.
The company said it currently has $3.7 billion in indefinite delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts under review and feels well-positioned for the total $39 billion allocated to the federal border wall program.
