N3B Los Alamos

What N3B Los Alamos does

N3B Los Alamos is a government environmental services contractor that performs legacy radiological and hazardous waste cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office. The company was established in 2018 as a joint venture LLC between HII Nuclear (Huntington Ingalls Industries) and BWX Technologies (BWXT) specifically to hold the 10-year Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract, valued at approximately $1.4 billion on a base basis with a $2.1 billion ceiling cited on the company website. N3B's mission addresses contamination from the Manhattan Project and Cold War eras under the 2016 Compliance Order on Consent between DOE and the New Mexico Environment Department.

Core service lines include: (1) groundwater monitoring and treatment, notably the hexavalent Chromium Groundwater Treatment System using extraction and injection wells with ion exchange technology, with monitoring across 195 groundwater sampling locations; (2) transuranic waste processing and shipment to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, NM, via the RANT facility at Technical Area 54; (3) soil remediation across more than 1,100 Solid Waste Management Units and Areas of Concern; and (4) storm water management under the LANL Individual Permit. Operations are delivered through a 600–700+ employee workforce supplemented by critical subcontractors including Longenecker & Associates, Tech2Solutions, TerranearPMC, Envirocon, and LATA, with a workforce development pipeline anchored by partnerships with UNM-Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico College.

The business model is a cost-plus managed services arrangement under a sole-source prime contract with a single federal customer (DOE EM-Los Alamos). All revenue is contract-driven rather than commercially priced, and go-to-market occurs through federal procurement processes and regulatory relationships with the New Mexico Environment Department rather than traditional sales channels. There are no commercial distribution channels, no product offerings outside the contracted scope, and no disclosed standalone revenue or ARR figures—only the contract ceiling value serves as a revenue proxy.

Name

N3B Los Alamos

Legal name

Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B)

Website

https://n3b-la.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

N3B Los Alamos is a government environmental services contractor performing legacy radiological and hazardous waste cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory under a sole-source 10-year, ~$1.4–2.1 billion DOE contract. It is a joint venture between HII Nuclear and BWX Technologies.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Environmental Remediation Services

NAICS

Remediation Services (56291), Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal (562211), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622)

SIC

Hazardous Waste Management (4955), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Decontamination & Dismantling (D&D) of Nuclear Facilities (EUAKAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Hazardous Waste Disposal (Secure Landfills, Deep-Well Injection) (EUAIAFAC)

Keywords

• Environmental remediation
• Nuclear waste management
• Groundwater treatment
• Radioactive waste disposal
• Soil remediation

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Alamos

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract: Cost-plus government contract for environmental remediation and waste management at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The contract is a 10-year agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management Field Office to clean up legacy waste from Manhattan Project and Cold War eras.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

N3B Los Alamos is the prime environmental cleanup contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office, executing the 10-year Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract. It performs legacy radioactive and hazardous waste cleanup, groundwater protection and treatment, soil remediation, and off-site waste shipment at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Product overview

N3B Los Alamos is a service contractor, not a product company. It provides environmental remediation and waste management services under the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract for the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office. Core services include: (1) Legacy waste cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), including retrieval, characterization, packaging, and off-site disposal of transuranic and low-level radioactive waste; (2) Groundwater protection and remediation, including monitoring wells and treatment systems for hexavalent chromium contamination; (3) Soil remediation and cleanup of contaminated sites (Solid Waste Management Units/Areas of Concern); (4) Storm water management and environmental monitoring; and (5) Workforce development programs including Radiological Control Technician Boot Camp, Waste Processing Operator Boot Camp, and Nuclear Operator Apprenticeship Program. The company manages the $1.38–$2.1 billion, 10-year Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract and is a joint venture between HII Nuclear (Huntington Ingalls Industries) and BWX Technologies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Legacy Waste Cleanup and Off-Site Shipment Retrieval, characterization, packaging, and off-site disposal of transuranic and low-level radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory, including shipments to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant using the RANT facility at Technical Area 54.
• Groundwater Protection and Treatment Groundwater monitoring and remediation, including a hexavalent chromium groundwater treatment system with extraction and injection wells and an ion exchange treatment facility to remove chromium and return cleaned water to the aquifer, plus monitoring from 195 locations.
• Soil Remediation and Site Cleanup Cleanup of contaminated soil and remediation of Solid Waste Management Units and Areas of Concern (over 1,100 investigated and cleaned) on current and historic LANL property.
• Storm Water Management and Environmental Monitoring Storm water management and environmental sampling of air, soil and water across canyons around LANL property under the Individual Permit authorizing discharge from historical industrial sites.
• Workforce Development Programs Training and apprenticeship programs including the Radiological Control Technician Boot Camp, Waste Processing Operator Boot Camp, and Nuclear Operators Apprenticeship Program, developed with UNM-LA and Northern New Mexico College to build a skilled local cleanup workforce.

Quantifiable outcome

• 435 cubic meters of waste shipped off-site in first year
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered supporting, core and critical.

• Windward Environmental, LLCsupportingTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2021Technical partner providing Principal Scientist Barry Fulton for Individual Permit public meetings and water quality criteria presentations.
• Triad National Security (Triad)coreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2021Cooperation with Triad to combine transuranic waste shipments using the RANT facility at Technical Area 54. Partnership enables comingling of legacy and new generation radioactive waste for more efficient shipments to WIPP.
• Tech2SolutionscriticalImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 March 2020Key subcontractor to N3B supporting cleanup operations at LANL
• Longenecker & AssociatessupportingOthers · 1 March 2020Co-funder of Danny Nichols Memorial Scholarship for Northern New Mexico students pursuing environmental and radioactive waste management careers.
• Tetra TechsupportingOthers · 1 March 2020Co-funder of Danny Nichols Memorial Scholarship for Northern New Mexico students pursuing environmental and radioactive waste management careers.
• University of New Mexico-Los Alamos (UNM-LA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019Joint workforce development partnership offering Radiological Control Technician Boot Camp and Waste Processing Operator Boot Camp programs. UNM-LA provides classroom instruction and college credits while N3B provides on-the-job training at cleanup sites. Students receive 10 college credits upon completion.
• Darlene Chisholm / The Apprentice SchoolsupportingStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2019The Apprentice School, established by Huntington Ingalls Industries (parent company of N3B), serves as a model for N3B's apprenticeship programs. Darlene Chisholm, director of Radiological Protection for N3B, is a graduate of The Apprentice School.
• Longenecker & AssociatescriticalImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 May 2019Key subcontractor to N3B providing technical consulting services for legacy cleanup operations at LANL
• Los Alamos Technical Associates (LATA)criticalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 March 2019Subcontract awarded for cleanup of portions of Technical Area-21 at LANL. LATA will decontaminate and demolish Building 257, a former radioactive liquid waste processing facility, and remove underground waste transfer lines.
• TerranearPMCcriticalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 October 2018$1.5 million subcontract for cleanup activities at Technical Area-21, a former research site at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Work includes decontamination and removal of above-ground debris, disposing of equipment, and perimeter fencing installation.
• EnviroconcriticalChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 October 2018Teaming partner with TerranearPMC for $1.5 million TA-21 cleanup subcontract. Envirocon of Missoula, Montana provides additional cleanup capacity and expertise.
• Northern New Mexico College (NNMC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Partnership for Nuclear Operators Apprenticeship Program spanning six semesters with 50 college credits. N3B covers tuition while paying competitive salary and benefits. Apprentices stay on as full-time employees upon graduation.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Veolia Environmental Services: Veolia's nuclear and hazardous waste services business competes in DOE and commercial waste management, making it an adjacent player in the same regulatory and operational space as N3B.
• Perma-Fix Environmental Services: Perma-Fix operates treatment and disposal facilities for mixed waste and serves federal cleanup customers — a comparable niche player in nuclear/hazardous waste treatment relevant to N3B's TRU waste program.

Direct peers

• Fluor Corporation: Fluor is a major DOE Environmental Management prime contractor (e.g., Savannah River Site, Hanford, Portsmouth), directly comparable to N3B in the federal environmental remediation and waste management space.
• EnergySolutions: EnergySolutions provides commercial and DOE nuclear waste processing, transportation, and disposal services — a direct peer in transuranic and low-level waste handling that ships to WIPP and other licensed facilities.
• AECOM: AECOM's environment business delivers DOE and federal cleanup and remediation services nationwide, making it a direct peer to N3B in legacy waste, groundwater, and soil remediation contracting.
• Bechtel National: Bechtel operates the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant and other large DOE cleanup sites — a direct peer in the prime-contractor legacy nuclear and hazardous waste remediation market.
• Jacobs Solutions: Jacobs (including legacy CH2M) is a leading DOE environmental remediation prime with multi-site cleanup responsibilities — directly comparable mission, customer, and cost-plus contract structure to N3B.

Broad incumbents

• Huntington Ingalls Industries: HII is a co-parent of N3B through HII Nuclear and a major federal services prime with adjacent DOE/nuclear and environmental portfolios — comparable in federal contracting DNA though far broader in scope.
• Tetra Tech: Tetra Tech is a large environmental consulting and remediation firm supporting federal cleanup programs — overlapping with N3B's remediation scope (N3B is already a Tetra Tech scholarship co-funder and adjacent partner).
• BWX Technologies (BWXT): BWXT is a co-parent of N3B and operates other DOE nuclear sites, providing nuclear operations, technical services, and waste management at broader scale than the LANL-only JV.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/n3blosalamos
• Facebookfacebook.com/n3blosalamos
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/n3b-los-alamos

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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