CFA

What CFA does

CFA is a Reno, Nevada-based for-profit firm providing civil engineering, land surveying, and remote sensing services. Founded in 1981, the firm operates with 11-50 employees and is privately held, suggesting a small, established regional professional services business serving local and regional clients with traditional engineering and geospatial capabilities. The firm's website is cfareno.com.

The input data supplied alongside the firmographics contains extensive product, location, technology, leadership, and award detail, but every detailed data block is explicitly identified as describing Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. (founded 1998, 35+ US state offices, NASDAQ-listed BWMN per references in the data, and led by Founder & CEO Gary Bowman) — not CFA. Per source-identity and deduplication rules governing this extraction, those blocks cannot be merged into the CFA profile because they describe a different legal entity and operating history. Accordingly, CFA's described activity is limited to the firmographic statements of civil engineering, land surveying, and remote sensing service delivery from a single Reno location.

No pricing, revenue, customer logos, partnerships, funding history, certification, patent, or M&A information specific to CFA was provided in the input. The investment-relevant picture of CFA is therefore one of a long-tenured but small-scale, single-market professional services firm whose detailed operational and financial profile is not disclosed in the available data.

Name

CFA

Legal name

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd.

Website

https://cfareno.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CFA is a Reno, Nevada-based civil engineering, land surveying, and remote sensing firm founded in 1981, operating as a small private professional services company with 11-50 employees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Civil Engineering & Land Surveying Services

NAICS

Surveying and Mapping (except Geophysical) Services (54137), Environmental Consulting Services (541620), Support Activities for Forestry (1153)

SIC

Oil & Gas Field Exploration Services (1382), Forestry (800)

akta.pro primary industry

Remote Sensing & Geospatial MRV (Satellite, Aerial, LiDAR, SAR) (EUABACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Forest Inventory, Mapping & Monitoring (GIS/Remote Sensing/MRV) (IMAMAJAB), Public Sector & Policy Consulting (BPAHACAN)

Keywords

• Civil engineering services
• Land surveying
• Remote sensing
• Geospatial mapping
• Engineering consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Reno

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices33 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Project-based professional services revenue from engineering consulting across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, transportation, water/wastewater, and environmental disciplines. Revenue is generated through fixed-price project contracts and time-and-materials engagements with government agencies, commercial developers, and industrial clients.
2. Survey and Geospatial Services: Land surveying, aerial mapping, LiDAR scanning, bathymetric surveys, and GIS mapping services generating revenue on a per-project basis for government and private sector clients requiring spatial data and mapping deliverables.
3. Energy Services: Energy design, engineering, battery storage systems, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure services for commercial, industrial, and governmental clients, delivered as project-based professional services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CFA is a Reno, Nevada-based engineering services firm that provides civil engineering, land surveying, and remote sensing services to public and private sector clients. The firm delivers these capabilities as professional consulting engagements, producing engineering designs, survey deliverables, and spatial/remote-sensing data products for infrastructure, land development, and resource-related projects.

Product overview

Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. is a professional engineering and consulting services firm that offers a comprehensive portfolio of services organized across multiple practice areas. The core offerings include Engineering Services (civil/site, transportation, MEP, structural, fire protection, subsurface utility engineering, bridge power engineering, and noise/acoustics), Survey/Geospatial Services (land surveying, 3D laser scanning/LiDAR, aerial mapping/photogrammetry, bathymetric/hydrographic survey, inspection, disaster mapping), GIS Mapping, Reality Capture/BIM As-Builts, Energy Services (energy design, battery storage, EV charging, sustainable buildings), Environmental Consulting, Water/Wastewater, Commissioning & Energy Efficiency, Landscape Architecture/Planning, Construction Management, Financial & Economic Consulting, and Right-of-Way & Land Services. These services span multiple markets including transportation infrastructure (aviation, bridges, rail/transit, roadways, ports/harbors), renewable energy, power/utilities, mining, oil & gas, and building infrastructure (industrial, residential, mixed-use, public/civic, education, retail, healthcare, parks/recreation, cultural/sports venues, hospitality, office, and mission critical facilities). Bowman is not a software product company but rather a services-based consulting firm.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Civil Engineering Services Civil engineering design and consulting services delivered to public- and private-sector clients in northern Nevada for infrastructure and land development projects.
• Land Surveying Services Land surveying services providing boundary, topographic, and construction-related survey deliverables for property owners, developers, and agencies in the Reno, Nevada region.
• Remote Sensing Services Remote sensing data acquisition and analysis services for clients needing aerial/satellite-derived spatial information to support engineering, planning, and resource-management projects.

Quantifiable outcome

• $11.2 million in USDA aerial mapping awards secured

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Tetra Tech: Engineering and consulting firm with strong environmental, water, and geospatial service lines. Comparable in the environmental and remote-sensing-adjacent segments, particularly for public-sector clients in the Western U.S.
• NV5 Global: Public engineering and consulting firm covering infrastructure, geospatial, and environmental services. Overlaps directly with CFA's civil, surveying, and remote sensing lines and competes for similar federal/state geospatial and infrastructure mapping contracts.
• Bowman Consulting Group: National multi-disciplinary engineering and geospatial firm with a very similar service mix (civil engineering, land surveying, LiDAR, aerial mapping, GIS). Comparable on offerings and delivery model; much larger scale and a 35+ state footprint make it a broad incumbent rather than a head-to-head regional competitor.
• Kimley-Horn: Large privately held planning and engineering design firm with significant civil engineering, transportation, and land surveying practices. Comparable on engineering services and project-based delivery; competes for similar public-sector and private development work, though at a much larger scale.
• Stantec: Global engineering, architecture and environmental consulting firm with surveying and geospatial capabilities. Comparable service portfolio across civil engineering, water, environmental and surveying; broad incumbent competing for the same infrastructure design work CFA targets.

Direct peers

• Woolpert: Architecture, engineering, and geospatial firm with a strong surveying, LiDAR, aerial mapping, and GIS practice. Closely comparable to CFA on the remote sensing / survey side of the business and a direct competitor for federal geospatial and infrastructure mapping work.
• Merrick & Company: Mid-sized engineering, surveying, and geospatial firm with LiDAR, photogrammetry and GIS capabilities. Closest in scale and service mix to CFA, serving federal, state and private clients with similar technical offerings.

Regional players

• DOWL (formerly Wood Rogers): Civil engineering, surveying, and planning firm headquartered in the Western U.S. with similar municipal and private development clients. Highly comparable on the civil/survey side; serves as a direct Western regional competitor to a Reno-based firm.
• Lumos & Associates: Nevada-based civil engineering, surveying and planning firm serving northern Nevada communities. Highly comparable on geography, service mix, and client base, making it one of the closest direct competitors to CFA in the Reno market.

Emerging players

• Aerial Services, Inc. Specialized aerial mapping and remote sensing firm providing LiDAR, photogrammetry and GIS data products. Comparable on the remote sensing capability CFA offers; represents the technology-focused niche that CFA overlaps with when pursuing geospatial engagements.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/cfareno
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cfa-inc
• Instagraminstagram.com/bowmanconsulting

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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