41 years, one organization, one set of standards
Founded in Milton, Washington in 1985 and part of the Bristol Bay Industrial family since 2020, Cannon is measured by a safety experience factor more than 30 percent below the baseline. What a federal prime, agency, utility or carrier gets is one organization that can engineer, drill, build, splice, energize and restore, across the western United States and on installations nationwide, rather than a general contractor assembling that from a tier of subcontractors.
The work that usually gets subcontracted stays inside the company
Power
Transmission and distribution to 230kV, substations, energized line work and storm response with Cannon's own journeyman linemen.
Telecommunications
Outside plant, inside plant, long haul backbone and cable reclamation, from the route design to the OTDR trace.
Drilling and civil
Owned rigs and crews for rock, cobble and river crossings, plus the trenching, foundations and restoration around them.
Engineering
Route design, permitting, LiDAR and survey, construction-ready plan sets and as-builts from an in-house engineering group.
Built for the owners and primes who buy infrastructure
Cannon's clients are federal prime contractors and the Department of Defense and civilian agencies behind them, investor owned utilities and public utility districts, municipalities and school districts, tribal governments, and carriers and network owners such as Comcast, Zayo, Crown Castle, Astound and Intermountain Infrastructure Group. The work is awarded on master service agreements, repeat direct awards and long running programs, and most of it comes back year after year.
Where the work is
Headquartered in Milton, Washington, with offices in Seattle, JBLM, Kalama and Winthrop, a regional hub in Gilbert, Arizona, an office in California and a satellite office in Utah. Licensed in Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho and Montana with more than twelve states of licensure across the organization, and badged crews on federal installations from Alaska to Florida and across the Pacific, including Hawaii, Guam and Kwajalein.
Programs that renew and awards that repeat
Programs that renew
Comcast under a master service agreement since 2017, Astound since 2016, Crown Castle since 2018 and Puget Sound Energy with storm response since 2019. Program work is won once and kept on performance.
Repeat direct awards in public power
Clallam County PUD and Snohomish County PUD both awarded 115kV work directly in 2026, following the Race Street to Liberty Street rebuild for Clallam in 2023. Seattle City Light joint use since 2016 with a pole replacement program alongside it since 2019, and City of Milton municipal electrical work held as prime.
Scale on a single route
195 miles from Quincy to Spokane for Intermountain Infrastructure Group, with 1,032,035 feet bored and plowed and 825 vaults set by Cannon crews.
Federal credentials already in hand
Badged, DBIDS credentialed crews at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, MacDill Air Force Base, Naval Base Kitsap Bangor, Naval Station Everett and Naval Magazine Indian Island, with an information security program built to NIST SP 800-171. See federal services.
Tribal and rural broadband delivery
Fiber to the home for the Colville Confederated Tribes across more than 170 miles, and power, engineering and project management for the Yurok Tribe.
Bonding that matches the program
Bonding capacity of $100 million+ on a single project and $500 million+ in aggregate, behind Liberty Mutual, rated A (Excellent) XV by AM Best.
Four hallmarks, measured by the people who buy the work
Safety is the first hallmark and the one the others rest on. Cannon's Washington L&I experience factor is 0.6947 (effective January 1, 2026); the NCCI rate outside Washington is 1.00. Every employee holds stop work authority, every task starts with a job briefing, and the program is audited continuously through ISNetworld, Avetta and Highwire. Read more on the safety page.
Quality is checked before the work starts, while it is in progress and on the way to turnover, and documented in systems the owner can see. The quality and information security page describes how.
One labor relationship across the territory
Cannon is signatory to the Northwest Line Constructors Chapter NECA outside line agreement covering IBEW Locals 77, 125, 483, 659 and 1245, so an owner holds one labor relationship from Washington through Oregon, Idaho, Montana and California.
Verified by the organizations that check
Put Cannon on the bid list
Send the scope. Cannon will come back with a self-performed plan, the crews already qualified on your system and the paperwork your procurement team needs.