Federal and Government Services

Federal and Government

Badged, credentialed and already on the installation

Cannon has delivered power, telecommunications and directional drilling work on military installations for more than two decades. Crews are badged and DBIDS credentialed where the work is, the information security program is built to the federal standard, and the same supervision runs the job whether the contract is held direct, through a prime or inside a joint venture.

Talk to the federal team Federal projects
Installations served50+every branch of the DoD and civilian agencies
Fiber deployed, Alaska250,000 ftFort Greely, Fort Wainwright, JBER
Information securityNIST 800-171CMMC Level 2 compliant
Bonding, single project$100 million+$500 million+ aggregate
Where Cannon works

More than fifty installations nationwide, every branch of service

Cannon has worked on more than fifty installations for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Coast Guard, NAVFAC, USACE and the civilian agencies of the Department of Defense. Crews hold base credentials and work to USACE EM 385-1-1, with activity hazard analyses submitted before each activity, weekly training records and toolbox talks filed, and daily reports routed through the owner's project management system. The work runs nationwide and across the Pacific, from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to MacDill in Florida, Hickam in Hawaii, Guam and Kwajalein. The map shows installations where Cannon has worked and the offices the crews work from; the cards below are recent examples, not the full list.

  • Offices (8)
  • Installations and federal sites (57)
  • Hover or tap a marker for the name and any project write-ups.

Joint Base Lewis-McChord

The longest relationship on the list. Power line enhancements, switching station construction, SCADA pole installation, premise wiring, grounding and lightning protection, and the Gray Army Airfield microgrid high voltage scope.

MacDill Air Force Base

Medium voltage underground cable work, delivered with Cannon supervision on site and locally referred craft under the prime contractor's license and federal enclave provisions.

Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, Naval Station Everett, Naval Magazine Indian Island

Shore power, substation repair, distribution repair and installation electrical work for NAVFAC Northwest through prime contractors.

Fort Greely, Fort Wainwright and JBER

More than 40 miles of new fiber backbone engineered, permitted and built for the Department of Defense through CACI, with 250,000 feet of fiber deployed and 1,800 strands spliced and tested.

Also: Fort Campbell (fiber infrastructure build-out, outside and inside plant), McChord Field (CITS telecommunications infrastructure upgrade across 27 buildings) and King County's PSERN public safety radio network. Earlier base-wide programs, many of them end-to-end from survey through cutover, include Fort Jackson, Fort Bliss, Fort Huachuca, Camp Pendleton, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, Kwajalein Atoll, and Vandenberg, Edwards, Beale, Travis, Kirtland and Langley Air Force Bases.

Crane setting an ISDC SCADA pole at Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Joint Base Lewis-McChord: a crane sets one of the ISDC7 and ISDC8 SCADA poles, composite structures of 75 to 140 feet, beside the substation.
Conduits entering a replaced communications vault at Joint Base Lewis-McChord
Joint Base Lewis-McChord: conduits entering a replaced communications vault on the base fiber system.
What Cannon delivers on an installation

Power, telecom, drilling and engineering on base

Each scope below is planned to USACE EM 385-1-1, run with badged crews and closed out with the documentation an installation's contracting office expects.

Power

  • Overhead and underground distribution, 5kV through 35kV
  • Pole replacement, reconductor and feeder rebuilds
  • Substation and switching station construction
  • Medium voltage splicing and terminations
  • Grounding grids and UL 96A lightning protection
  • Microgrid, generation and battery storage site electrical
  • Shore power and service extensions

High voltage power

Communications

  • Fiber backbone, duct bank, manhole and vault systems
  • Aerial and underground fiber and copper
  • Splicing, OTDR testing and certification
  • Category 6 and 6A premise wiring to TIA 606-B
  • Telecommunications rooms, racks and cabinets
  • SCADA, DAS and wireless access points
  • Live cutovers in occupied facilities
  • Base-wide infrastructure surveys and flight line communications

Outside plant | Inside plant

Drilling and engineering

  • Horizontal directional drilling, including rock
  • Bored road, rail and river crossings
  • Trenching and cable plowing for duct and fiber
  • Base-wide infrastructure surveys
  • Route design, permitting and construction-ready plan sets
  • As-built documentation and closeout packages

Directional drilling | Engineering

Credentials and compliance

Built to the federal standard

Information security

A contractor on a federal or utility network holds circuit maps, as-builts, switching records and route data. Cannon handles that material inside an environment built to the NIST SP 800-171 control set and is CMMC Level 2 compliant, aligned to ISO 27001 and IT Service Management principles and supported by a Registered Provider Organization. Access control, audit and accountability, incident response, media protection and physical protection are assessed and reviewed on a regular cycle.

Safety on the installation

Work is planned and performed to USACE EM 385-1-1. Cannon's Washington L&I experience factor is 0.6947 (effective January 1, 2026); the NCCI rate outside Washington is 1.00. Read more on the safety page, and see how environmental controls are carried on every site.

Labor and payroll compliance

Davis-Bacon and Service Contract Act wage determinations, certified payroll through LCPtracker and eMars, and workforce development run to Affirmative Action Program and Federal Acquisition Regulation requirements.

Ownership and small business status

Cannon is owned by Bristol Bay Native Corporation, an Alaska Native regional corporation established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. Under 43 U.S.C. 1626(e), Alaska Native corporations and their subsidiaries are federally identified as minority and economically disadvantaged business enterprises. Cannon is a federally recognized Small Disadvantaged Business, a certified Minority Business Enterprise through NMSDC, and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise through Washington OMWBE. That status counts toward subcontracting plan goals and supplier diversity commitments, with certification documentation provided at award.

Registrations

NAICS
237130 Power and Communication Line, 238210 Electrical Contractors, 237110 Water and Sewer Line, 237310 Highway, Street and Bridge
Cannon Construction, LLC
CAGE 1KTV5 | UEI C8MNSENHM6M1 | DUNS 17-380-4212
Cannon Constructors, LLC
CAGE 7XPG7 | UEI U4QXVN8P4DW3 | DUNS 08-074-7339
Bonding
$100 million+ single project, $500 million+ aggregate, Liberty Mutual, rated A (Excellent) XV by AM Best
How Cannon contracts

Direct, through a prime, or in a joint venture

Prime contractor

Direct awards from the US Army Corps of Engineers and municipal and public power owners, including the Gingko to Main repair line and the King County PSERN power extension.

Subcontractor to a prime or EPC

Installation work for NAVFAC Northwest, the Defense Logistics Agency and USACE through primes such as City Light & Power JBLM, which holds the 50-year utility privatization contract at JBLM and has held a master service agreement with Cannon for years.

Joint ventures

The Orion-Cannon joint venture held a five-year MATOC at JBLM from 2017 covering tenant improvements, outside and inside plant communications and power upgrades. The Bristol-Cannon joint venture built a new overhead and underground power line between two JBLM substations, closing with CPARS ratings from Very Good to Exceptional.

Recent examples

Federal projects

A sample of recent past performance. Project write-ups are on the federal projects page.

ProjectInstallationScope
CACI Alaska PAC OSP-O fiber optic installationFort Greely, Fort Wainwright, JBER40+ miles of backbone engineered, permitted and built; 250,000 ft of fiber; 100 pedestals, 7 vaults, 1,800 strands spliced
Gray Army Airfield microgridJBLMSite development and high voltage construction for a battery storage and natural gas generation plant: grounding grid, duct runs, medium voltage, SCADA, equipment setting
Power line enhancementsJBLM47 new poles, 36,975 ft of 336 ACSR, SCADA-ready pad mount switches, 5,370 ft of 15kV cable
Clover Creek switching stationJBLMNew distribution switching station, grounding grid, 13,140 ft overhead and 10,970 ft underground conductor
ISDC7 and ISDC8 SCADA polesJBLMComposite poles 75 to 140 ft set by crane with antennas, grounding and ethernet for a wireless SCADA system
Grounding and lightning protection, 10 facilitiesJBLMUL 96A systems on eight buildings, fall-of-potential testing, UL master label certification
Building 7 premise wiringJBLM60,000 ft of Category 6 across 98 locations, cut over in an occupied facility
ERTSS cable installationMacDill AFB34.5kV underground cable
Shore power and distributionIndian Island, Naval Station Everett, NBK Bangor13.8kV distribution upgrade, shore power, substation and distribution repair
Fiber infrastructure build-outFort Campbell239,094 ft of trench conduit, 34 miles of concrete-encased duct bank, 250 racks and 153 wall cabinets
CITS telecommunications upgradeMcChord Field18,400 ft of duct bank, 20 vaults, 65,000 ft of fiber across 27 buildings

Browse the federal project gallery. Full project sheets and references are available on request.

What clients say

Cannon Construction, Inc., has been providing excavation service for the Light Division of the City of Tacoma, Department of Public Utilities for the past few years. They have provided roadway crossings; both open cuts and conduit push. They have a skilled staff that provides superior work.

M. A. Fesharaki, P.E., New Services Engineering Supervisor, Tacoma Public Utilities, Light Division

Work done for Elmhurst Mutual by Cannon Construction has been exceptional. The employees work in a very professional manner and are exceptionally safety conscious. Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Company highly recommends Cannon Construction as a contractor who can successfully construct a project in an expeditious manner and with desired results.

George Hollingsworth, Operations Manager, Elmhurst Mutual Power & Light Company

I know when I send a Cannon Construction crew to do the job I can count on quality people and quality equipment to do a professional job from start to completion.

Dave Lemke, Construction Supervisor, Viacom Cablevision, Tacoma

Thank you for sending a crew out yesterday to put the pull line in the conduit. The two of them were determined to get the job done. They were both very hard workers and cared about the quality of their work. Both were very professional people.

Wexler Property Group, Snohomish, WA

The drilling team was great to work with and I'm still impressed with a 1,000' pull back in 5 hours.

Project Engineer, City of Snoqualmie

We wanted to impart our gratitude for your prompt response in allocating and dispatching crews to assist our Comcast teams in restoring service to our customers after the bomb cyclone storm. We greatly appreciate the long hours put in, especially over the Thanksgiving holiday.

Senior Director, Construction, Comcast, Pacific Northwest Region

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