Competition

Competitors describe KBR, Inc.'s market in their own filings and calls. These verified passages and visual pages show where their strategies meet, using source documents preserved in Sources.

Leidos Holdings, Inc. (LDOS)

The largest U.S. government-services and defense-technology contractor, and KBR's most direct rival across defense systems, space, intelligence and IT modernization. Leidos names KBR by name in its 10-K competitor list.

Leidos's FY2025 10-K lists KBR among its named principal competitors across systems integration and defense engineering/technical services.

Our principal competitors currently include the following companies: Accenture Federal Services LLC, Amentum Services Inc., KBR, Inc., BAE Systems, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International Inc., Deloitte, General Dynamics Corporation, GovCIO, IBM, KBR Inc., L3Harris Technologies, Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, ManTech, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Optum, Parsons Corporation, Peraton Inc., RTX Corporation and SAIC.

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Leidos's CEO describes a defense-systems growth pivot spanning U.S., U.K. and Australia government programs — the international government footprint KBR also serves.

Thomas A. Bell (Chief Executive Officer): we're very bullish on our opportunity to help this administration increase the size and lethality of the U.S. Navy. And I'm very proud that both in Australia and the U.K., we have corollary unmanned autonomous vehicle programs that have synergy with what we're doing here in the U.S. So all in all, we see a tremendous pivot for our defense business […] now really pivoting to LRIP and programs of record, which has always been our plan since we acquired our defense tech business some years ago.

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Leidos points to expanded NASA ARTEMIS space-program work and an international air-traffic-management win among recent government awards.

Thomas A. Bell (Chief Executive Officer): We are expanding our contribution under an asset contract to support the ARTEMIS program in long-duration space exploration. And we received a large award to modernize Kazakhstan's air traffic control system using our Skyline X comprehensive air traffic management system.

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Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

A pure-play U.S. government technology integrator in defense, space, intelligence and civilian IT modernization — the closest listed analog to KBR's Government Solutions mission-IT and digital-engineering work.

SAIC frames its served market as the full-lifecycle U.S. government technical/engineering/IT space and sizes its footprint at roughly 1,700 active contracts and 23,000 employees.

As one of the largest pure-play technology service providers to the U.S. government, we serve markets of significant scale and opportunity. Our primary customers are the departments and agencies of the U.S. government. […] We serve our customers through approximately 1,700 active contracts and task orders and employ approximately 23,000 individuals

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SAIC's CFO acknowledges nontraditional commercial entrants in the government market and defends SAIC's differentiated role as a “mission integrator.”

Prabu Natarajan (Chief Financial Officer): we are seeing new entrants in the market, nontraditional, with more commercial orientation to them. […] we welcome newcomers in the industry as a mission integrator. I think we believe sincerely that the offerings from commercial vendors still will require mission integration at its core to be able to operate inside of the government environment. So we welcome the competition in the industrial base.

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SAIC discloses new-business win rates approaching 50% and recompete win rates of roughly 85–90% in its differentiated engineering and mission-IT work.

Prabhu Natarajan (Chief Financial Officer): our win rates on non-enterprise IT work—some of the work we do on the engineering side as well as the mission IT side—our win rates on new have approached 50% or more at various points over the last couple of years. […] our recompete win rates on non-commoditized enterprise IT is sort of in that 85% to 90% range. So good win rates outside of the commoditized enterprise IT work

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Amentum Holdings, Inc. (AMTM)

A large government mission-and-engineering services contractor (defense, intelligence, space, nuclear/environmental) formed in part from Jacobs's former government business. Amentum names KBR by name as a primary competitor.

Amentum's FY2025 10-K lists KBR Inc. among its named primary competitors in U.S. government services.

Amentum's primary competitors include Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International Inc., KBR Inc., Leidos Holdings Inc., ManTech International Corporation, Parsons Corporation, Peraton Corporation, Science Applications International Corporation and V2X, Inc. Our domestic competition also includes large defense contractors such as Boeing Co., BAE Systems plc, General Dynamics Corporation, L3Harris Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin Corporation, Northrop Grumman Corporation and RTX Corporation.

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Amentum frames its addressable scope around C5ISR, space and digital modernization, cites a long-standing NASA space-operations franchise, and reports ~81% of revenue from direct U.S. Government contracts.

Our expertise is broadly applicable to many of the government's highest priority areas including command, control, communications, computer, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (collectively, "C5ISR"), RDT&E, energy, space, and digital modernization. […] our expertise in space operations, developed via our longstanding trusted relationship with NASA, which will help foster the development of next-generation civil and commercial space programs […] Approximately 81% of the Company's revenues were derived through direct contracts with agencies of the U.S. Government for the year ended October 3, 2025.

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Amentum's CEO defines the company's core growth areas as intelligence operations, environmental remediation and defense engineering, logistics and modernization.

John Heller (Chief Executive Officer): Our core growth areas where we have long-standing leadership positions across large, stable, mission critical areas provide dependable revenue, strong cash flow, and predictable returns […] some notable areas include RDT&E, intelligence operations and analysis, homeland security and border protection, environmental remediation, and defense engineering, logistics, and modernization.

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Technip Energies N.V. (TE)

A leading energy-transition engineering and process-technology licensor (LNG, hydrogen, ammonia, ethylene) that competes with KBR's Sustainable Technology Solutions segment — while also partnering with KBR in the KTJV joint venture on LNG.

Technip Energies names KBR as its partner in the KTJV joint venture selected for the Lake Charles LNG export project — a case where the two firms partner even as they compete elsewhere in process technology.

The KTJV joint-venture between Technip Energies and KBR has been chosen for a Major […] contingent on Lake Charles LNG's final investment decision.

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Technip Energies claims the single largest installed base of on-purpose hydrogen plants of any engineering-and-technology company — a market KBR's clean-hydrogen licensing also targets.

the Group has delivered more than 275 hydrogen plants to its clients over the past 65 years, an estimated 30% of the installed base for on-purpose hydrogen, which represents the largest share of plants that a single engineering and technology company has delivered.

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Technip Energies claims world leadership in polymer-resin and petrochemical process units, with more than 350 facilities delivered — overlapping KBR's petrochemicals and chemical-recycling licensing.

A world leader in the process design, engineering, procurement and construction of units for the production of polymer resins and other petrochemical derivatives, Technip Energies has delivered more than 350 facilities over the last 50 years.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation (BAH)

The largest provider of technology consulting and analytics to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies, and the self-described largest AI provider to the federal government — the incumbent KBR contends with as it pushes AI and digital modernization into the same missions.

Booz Allen's FY2026 10-K claims the leading position in AI-for-government (about 400 active AI projects) alongside a top-tier federal/defense/intelligence cyber business.

As the federal government's largest AI provider with approximately 400 active AI projects, we build secure AI solutions and advanced capabilities spanning agentic AI, physical AI, and AI-Radio Access Network (AI-RAN), and other emerging technologies designed for mission critical environments. […] We also have one of the most impactful cyber businesses globally, protecting U.S. federal, defense, and intelligence agencies

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Booz Allen's CEO frames its defense and intelligence (“national security”) portfolio as materially stronger than the civil sector and asserts leadership in cyber, AI and warfighting technologies.

Horacio Rozanski (Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President): The conditions in our defense and intelligence sectors, broadly referred to as our national security portfolio, are fundamentally different and considerably stronger than those in the civil sector. […] our leadership in cybersecurity, AI, and war fighting technologies is highly relevant to government technology and mission priorities.

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Jacobs Solutions Inc. (J)

A global engineering and technical-services firm that historically competed head-to-head with KBR in defense, space and intelligence before spinning that government business into Amentum in 2024; today the overlap sits in energy, environment and advanced-facilities engineering.

Jacobs describes the defense, space, intelligence and energy government-services business it spun off into Amentum in 2024 — a client base and scope that closely mirror KBR's Government Solutions.

Prior to the Separation Transaction, Jacobs' Critical Mission Solutions line of business provided a full spectrum of solutions for clients to address evolving challenges like digital transformation and modernization, national security and defense, space exploration, digital asset management, the clean energy transition, and nuclear decommissioning and cleanup. […] Clients included the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Combatant Commands, the U.S. Intelligence Community, NASA, the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)

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Jacobs's FY2025 10-K names its own competitor set for engineering and consulting markets — several of them (Fluor, Bechtel, Parsons, AtkinsRealis) also rivals of KBR — but does not name KBR itself.

We compete with many companies across the world including technology, consulting and engineering firms. Typically, no single company or companies dominate the markets in which we provide services, and often we partner with our competitors or other companies to jointly pursue projects. […] Bechtel, Arup, Endava, Exponent, Mott MacDonald, Stantec, Parsons, Accenture, Mace, AtkinsRealis, Altair, Montrose, Capgemini, Fluor, Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Bain & Company and McKinsey & Company are some of our competitors.

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