Amentum, a design and engineering firm headquartered in Maryland, is laying off 194 workers in Oak Harbor, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filed with the state of Washington.
The layoffs, which are permanent according to the WARN, will start in Whidbey Island city at the end of December. Amentum notified the state about the layoffs at the end of October.
Amentum didn't respond to questions regarding what types of positions would be affected or what caused the layoffs.
Amentum spun out of the infrastructure consulting firm Aecom in January 2020 when Aecom (NYSE: ACM) sold its management services business to two private equity firms. Aecom was founded in 1990 and went public in 2007.
Amentum offers services like weapons disposal, pilot training, warehousing and software development for the military. The company also works with commercial clients like John Deere, Toyota, General Electric and Rite Aid.
On its website, Amentum lists an office in Richland but doesn't list one in Oak Harbor. According to the company, Amentum has more than 50,000 employees on all seven continents.
In September, Amentum landed a contract with the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (TFI) to fight cyber-enabled financial crimes. Amentum said the contract has a maximum value of $500 million over five years.
“Our confidence to meet the treasury TFI mission stems from our proven performance providing analysis of financial intelligence and a thorough understanding of the changing financial crimes landscape and illicit financial typologies,” Jill Bruning, president of Amentum’s engineering, science and technology group, said in a release announcing the contract. “We can bring to bear our successful partnerships and collaboration with financial analysis industry leaders and our extensive knowledge of the many tools and datasets required to safeguard the nation’s financial system against threats.”
