Lockheed Martin and the Space Industry Association of Australia have jointly facilitated a forum to discuss opportunities and challenges facing Australia’s space industry. Lockheed said Wednesday the Securing Australia’s Space Industry Forum included a panel discussion and keynotes from Michael Frater, rector at University of New South Wales Canberra, and Tim Parsons, CEO of space startup accelerator Delta-V. […] More

The U.S Army has awarded five companies spots on a potential three-year, $9 million contract for environmental, planning, conservation-restoration and sustainment support to various military projects. Contractors will compete for task orders to provide comprehensive environmental services for the Army Corps of Engineers’ military and civil works projects as well as the Defense Department, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and Defense […] More

The government contracting industry and its agency customers are both grappling with questions as to how they can keep pace with fast technology advancements as requirements and demands of users change with those trends. Coupled with those changes is the work of both public and private sector organizations to hire qualified talent with skills and […] More

Kshitish Nadgauda, a former executive at Parsons and a more than 27-year industry veteran, has been appointed as vice president and managing director of Louis Berger‘s South Asia operations. He is based in India and oversees customer base development, project delivery, financial performance and support functions of the company across the region, Louis Berger said Dec. 22. […] More

A Fluor joint venture has been awarded a contract from the Arizona Department of Transportation to design and construct an approximately 22-mile highway around the Phoenix metropolitan area. Connect 202 Partners will begin construction of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway in summer and is scheduled to complete work in late 2019 or early 2020, Fluor said Tuesday. The freeway will have one high-occupancy vehicle lane […] More

Construction Week magazine has picked Parsons‘ railway network project in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as the recipient of the Infrastructure Project of the Year award. The Etihad Rail Stage 1 project is a 1,200-kilometer passenger and freight railway system that will work to serve as a link between the UAE and other Gulf Cooperation Council member […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded SRI International and Southwest Research Institute contracts to develop and design system prototypes to convert toxic chemicals into soil and other non-hazardous compounds. DARPA said Wednesday it made the awards under the agency’s Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents initiative. ACDC aims to develop new transportable platforms that will work to neutralize […] More

Andy Strampach serves as vice president of business development for the global services group at Leidos, where he oversees the organization’s business pursuits, growth strategy and capture activities in the U.S. defense and intelligence markets. He joined the company in May 2015 after more than three years of work as a division vice president of BD and strategy at Parsons‘ […] More

Michael Cox, a vice president and engineering services sector manager for Parsons’ government services business unit, has joined the National Defense Industrial Association’s Tennessee Valley chapter board of directors. He was also named to the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce’s Huntsville/Madison County chapter in Alabama, Parsons said Thursday. Mary Ann Hopkins, a […] More

Parsons Group President Mary Ann Hopkins will deliver remarks at Syracuse University’s commencement ceremony for graduating engineering and computer science students on Saturday. “I look forward to the opportunity to share with the engineers of tomorrow some of what I’ve learned in the last two decades and to encourage them to pursue their passion,” she […] More

Jamey Barbas, a three-decade bridge design and management veteran, has joined engineering consulting contractor Louis Berger Group as senior vice president of the firm’s global practice for major structures. She has led inspection, design and construction work for New York City’s Williamsburg Bridge and served as bridge design manager for a public-private partnership project in Montreal, […] More