The single-award IDIQ task-order hybrid contract begins in June 2026 and carries a 20-year period of performance. Through the award, KBR will provide planning, management, operations, logistics, maintenance, and science support across one of the most remote operating environments in the world.

The contract supports the U.S. Antarctic Program’s year-round research stations, including McMurdo Station, Palmer Station, and Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. In addition, KBR will support U.S. field sites across Antarctica, gateway logistics, port operations, Southern Ocean activities, and the movement of scientific samples back to U.S. laboratories.

“KBR will support far more than a research footprint in Antarctica. This contract covers the people, logistics, facilities, technology, communications, and sustainment systems that keep U.S. science moving in one of the hardest places on earth to operate. For overseas contractors, this is exactly the type of long-term support mission that creates opportunities across logistics, maintenance, facilities, IT, safety, communications, and field operations.” — POC

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KBR’s scope also includes information technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cold-chain sample handling, and shipboard support. As a result, the contract connects traditional base operations with advanced science support, secure networks, and complex logistics.

The U.S. Antarctic Program supports American scientific research and related logistics across the continent. NSF manages the program on behalf of the United States, while contractors provide much of the operational backbone required to sustain research stations, remote camps, aircraft support, marine operations, infrastructure, housing, food service, communications, and emergency response.

For KBR, the award expands its role in remote mission support. The company has long supported government customers in austere environments, including science, technology, engineering, logistics, and operations programs for civilian and defense agencies.

Work under the contract will support U.S. operations across Antarctica and related logistics networks through 2046.

Recent federal procurement records show the U.S. Navy via NAVFAC Pacific awarded an indefinite‑delivery/indefinite‑quantity base operating support contract at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia, initially ~$85M with a total potential value near $656M to Amentum Mitie Pacific — covering everything from port and air operations to logistics and facilities services with work through the early 2030s.

That award hasn’t gone uncontested: Amentum is moving to intervene in a protest by KBR Diego Garcia LLC over a related logistics support contract worth over $100M, signaling competitive friction for these support scopes. — POC

These contract actions sit against a backdrop of political controversy about the base’s status — ratification of a UK–Mauritius sovereignty deal affecting the British Indian Ocean Territory (including Diego Garcia) has been thrown into uncertainty amid pushback from U.S. policymakers, especially with the base’s strategic role in operations across the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf.

All told, this mix of multi‑year IDIQ and MACC‑like awards, protests, and geopolitical debate around Diego Garcia is shaping up to be fertile ground for contractor competition stories and lead development in base support and logistics in the Indo‑Pacific.