The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a 10-year, $2 billion multiple-award contract to 14 companies to compete for energy resiliency and infrastructure projects at military installations across the country.
The awards, disclosed in an April 17 U.S. Department of Defense contract notice, cover firm-fixed-price design-build and design-bid-build construction services through April 16, 2036, with work locations and funding to be determined at the task order level, according to the announcement.
Honorees include several major federal construction and engineering companies such as Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Tutor Perini Corp., CDM Constructors Inc., Parsons Government Services Inc. and Honeywell International Inc., among others. The Corps received 30 bids for the contract, the Defense Department said.
The contract reflects a broader Pentagon effort to harden the facility’s energy systems as grid instability, cyber risk and weather exposure increasingly influence mission readiness.
The Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program (ERCIP) is a defense-wide military construction account that funds projects aimed at improving “resiliency, security and energy efficiency” while supporting mission assurance, according to a fact sheet from the Huntsville Center’s Energy Division.
ERCIP projects move to construction through a multi-stage validation process that examines technical feasibility, life cycle cost performance and overall project definition. The Corps’ Huntsville Center conducts this review, including the life-cycle cost analysis and savings-to-investment ratio calculations used to determine whether projects meet federal cost-effectiveness thresholds.
The validation process also requires projects to pass bidibility, constructability, operability, environmental and sustainability review, along with a detailed cost estimate and administrative review through the Department of Defense’s DD1391 project justification process.
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Cyber security and controls integration are built in early. Huntsville’s review process requires projects to address grid connectivity, monitoring and control systems, and Authority approvals to operate under the Department of Defense’s risk management framework, indicating that many projects combine traditional construction domains with IT-enabled energy systems.
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Once validated, projects are executed under the Corps’ delivery structure, with the Louisville District managing the program, project delivery and statewide construction, while Huntsville serves as the design agent, according to Corps program materials.
Defense budget documents point to a sustained pipeline behind the new procurement vehicle. The Department of Defense’s FY 2026 military construction ERCIP budget justification proposes $684.33 million for 14 construction projects and $38.7 million for design, for a total of approximately $723.0 million, following $636.0 million in ERCIP construction funding identified in FY 2025 materials.
These projects illustrate the types of systems expected to flow through the contract.
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For example, a fiscal year 2026 ERCIP project at an Armed Forces Reserve center in Mountain View, Calif., includes diesel backup generation, a ground-mounted photovoltaic array, battery energy storage, microgrid controls, electrical distribution upgrades, and a secure closed grid to support monitoring and control, with contract award expected in March 2026, according to the budget completion and justification of May. Other fiscal year 2026 projects include energy system upgrades at Fort Bragg, White Sands Missile Range and Cape Cod Space Force Station, along with overseas work in Guam, Germany and Japan, budget materials show.
The award comes as the Louisville District advances individual ERCIP procurements, including a recent solicitation related to microgrid development at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Missouri, which indicates the contract will support an active backlog of installation-level resiliency work.
While the contract does not guarantee full funding at award, the decades-long ordering window combined with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual ERCIP construction funding positions the Corps to deliver a sustained flow of technically complex energy and infrastructure projects across the military portfolio.
