# ICF

> ICF is a global consulting and technology company that spends its days on the unglamorous plumbing of public life: modeling the power grid, rebuilding towns after hurricanes, running federal health programs, and helping utilities cut energy waste. Founded in 1969 as a venture fund for inner-city businesses, it now employs roughly 9,000 people, trades on NASDAQ as ICFI, and pulls in about $1.9 billion a year turning policy problems into software and services.

- **Founded:** 1969
- **Headquarters:** Reston, Virginia, United States
- **Founders:** Clarence "Lucky" Lester (First President (Inner City Fund)), Donald Ogilvie (Co-founder), Herbert S. "Pug" Winokur Jr. (Co-founder), Bruce Caputo (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~9,000 employees (FY2025)
- **Products:** ICF Fathom, Sightline, Integrated Planning Model (IPM), ICF Next, Disaster management & recovery services
- **Notable:** First professional-services firm to reach net carbon neutrality (2006)., U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026 Best Company to Work For., PRWeek 2024 U.S. Best Places to Work.

## Products & services

- **ICF Fathom** — A suite of AI solutions and services for federal agencies that pairs agentic AI with program-delivery expertise - deploying AI agents to automate complex tasks, support decisions, and reduce waste, fraud, and abuse across software development, document processing, grants management, and regulatory analysis.
- **Sightline** — A widely adopted utility and demand-side management program platform. The 2025 release adds AI analytics for a 360-degree view of customer programs, predicting grid stress and personalizing energy-efficiency offers.
- **Integrated Planning Model (IPM)** — A long-standing proprietary model of the U.S. electric power system used by regulators and utilities to analyze policy, emissions, and capacity decisions.
- **ICF Next** — ICF's marketing, communications, and customer-experience division serving public and commercial clients.
- **Disaster management & recovery services** — End-to-end federal, state, and local disaster mitigation, recovery, and grant-management programs, including HUD-funded rebuilding.
- **Energy advisory & efficiency programs** — Design and implementation of utility energy-efficiency, electrification, and demand-response programs across North America.

## Achievements

- First professional-services firm to reach net carbon neutrality (2006).
- U.S. News & World Report 2025-2026 Best Company to Work For.
- PRWeek 2024 U.S. Best Places to Work.
- Washington Technology Top 100 Government Contractor (2024).
- Built the first U.S. national greenhouse gas inventory and supported EPA's ENERGY STAR launch (1992).
- 60+ marketing and advertising awards in 2024 for utility and energy clients, including an Emmy, 13 ADDYs, and 23 Hermes Awards for Baltimore Gas & Electric campaigns.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — ICF reported FY2025 revenue of $1.87B (down 7.3%), citing a difficult federal spending environment, and guided to a return to federal growth by 2027.
- **2025-10** — Announced CFO Barry Broadus's retirement (effective ~March 2026) and new executive roles - James Morgan as Chief Operating & Financial Officer and Anne Choate as President; also updated the Sightline utility platform with AI analytics.
- **2025-08** — Launched ICF Fathom, a suite of agentic-AI solutions for federal agencies, delivered on AWS.
- **2025-11** — Held its 2025 outlook despite the October-November federal government shutdown, offset by commercial energy revenue growth of about 24%.

## Links

- Website: https://www.icf.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icf-international
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ICF
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisisicf/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisIsICF/

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Last updated: 2026-08-14