AIS wins $2B in border infrastructure contracts

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AIS Infrastructure, a heavy civil and infrastructure building agency, has obtained roughly $2 billion in contracts from the Division of Homeland Safety and Customs and Border Safety, in keeping with a Dec. 16 announcement shared with Development Dive.

The initiatives are situated alongside the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico close to Eagle Move, Texas; Lukeville, Arizona; and Marron Valley and Campo, California, east of San Diego. 

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based AIS will full the work by way of a subsidiary, BCSS, in keeping with the information launch.  BCSS will work in a three way partnership with Montgomery, Alabama-based Caddell Development and Burnet, Texas-based Gibraltar to guide and handle all 4 initiatives.

DHS and CBP have introduced billions of {dollars} in awards in October, and additional contracts in December, to have interaction companies for work alongside the southern border.

To that finish, each Caddell Development and Gibraltar are border work veterans — Caddell was tapped by the CBP to build 14 miles of contiguous new border wall in 2020, whereas Gibraltar has labored on over 30 website segments of border fence, in keeping with the corporate’s web site.

Different builders, together with Watsonville, California-based Granite Development, have additionally joined the fray. The infrastructure agency received the first border wall contract of President Donald Trump’s second time period in March.

Every of AIS Infrastructure’s 4 initiatives are design-build efforts which are presently within the engineering section, led by Omaha, Nebraska-based HDR, per the discharge. Fieldwork is anticipated to start in January 2026, with building anticipated to go on for 30 to 36 months per challenge.

The precise places listed within the launch all have a border crossing or a border patrol presence. 

Every contract and its scope contains:

• DRT-1, $565 million, and DRT-2, $364 million, in Del Rio, Texas: centered on vertical and waterborne boundaries, patrol roads, entry routes and sophisticated technical safety techniques.
• SDC-1, $483 million in San Diego, California: Overlaying vertical boundaries, mountain entry and patrol roads and superior technical safety techniques.
• TCA-1, $606 million in Tucson and Yuma, Arizona: Combining present barrier wall enhancements, new vertical boundaries and in depth drainage, patrol and entry highway networks, in addition to superior safety and detection techniques.

As well as, AIS Infrastructure plans to develop its workforce by 350 to 400 workers and deploy almost 100 further items of heavy gear by March 2026 to fulfill the size and complexity of the work, in keeping with the announcement. 

The corporate mentioned it presently has $3.7 billion in indefinite supply, indefinite amount contracts beneath evaluate and feels nicely positioned for the $39 billion complete allotted to the federal border wall program.