Jacobs Solutions has secured a potential five-year, $570.5 million contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency repair and restore disaster-damaged, publicly-owned facilities in the West Zone regions. The company said it will partner with CDM Smith to provide site inspection, field support, technical evaluation and cost analysis services to FEMA under the Public Assistance Technical Assistance Contract V contract vehicle.

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Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Chris Christou and Michael Jacobs, the company's chief engineer, said artificial intelligence could play a role in enabling safer spectrum sharing as the U.S. government advances 5G and 6G technologies.

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Mayur Ahuja announced on LinkedIn Monday his promotion to division vice president and deputy program manager of the Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science contract at Jacobs, transitioning from his role as director of engineering of JETS. Ahuja initially joined Jacobs in 2005 and stayed with the company for eight years. During that term, he served as facility configuration manager, then manager of the avionics, biomedical robotics and astromaterials group and deputy director of engineering for the JETS contract.

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Tammy Martin, formerly the division vice president of advanced engineering, research and operations at Jacobs' sales operations unit, announced on LinkedIn that she has assumed the role of VP of growth and sales strategy at the company. Martin brings to the role a decade of experience developing tailored services for private and public sector clients, including NASA, all Department of Defense agencies and the intelligence community.

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Jacobs and its subcontractors have been supporting NASA in operating a ground-based 3D-printed habitat for the Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog program, which aims to simulate year-long stays on the surface of Mars. The company said Friday it continues to work with NASA and additional contractors on monitoring the activities of a four-person crew living in the isolated CHAPEA habitat at Johnson Space Center as a prime contractor for the JSC Engineering, Technology and Science II contract.

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NASA has announced the modification of a task order awarded to Jacobs under the Aerospace Testing and Facilities Operations and Maintenance contract. NASA said Tuesday that under the task order, Jacobs will work to upgrade the electrical system of the Ames Research Center's Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, making its main drive motors more capable and efficient.

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Jacobs and its subcontractors were instrumental in the Missile Defense Agency's flight demonstration of Ground-based Midcourse Defense Weapon System-12 interceptor against an intermediate-range ballistic missile. Jacobs, which leads the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions contract, said Wednesday that it deployed employees in different locations to provide IT services, connectivity and communications for the flight test.

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NASA plans to award Jacobs a six-month contract extension to continue providing maintenance, operations and engineering support services at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The Center Maintenance, Operations and Engineering contract extension will support research facilities operations for wind tunnels, laboratories and test stands; central utilities operations; technology development and administration; facility engineering; and research and institutional facility maintenance, according to a notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov.

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The U.S. water sector needs to reform its risk quantification and cybersecurity infrastructure amid rising attacks on critical infrastructure, including the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, wrote Jacobs' cybersecurity executives John Karabias and Adi Karisik. Karabias, vice president of operational technology cybersecurity, and Karisik, OT cybersecurity principal at Jacobs Global Technology, discussed in a recent column the need for operational IT defense in protecting water utilities amid evolving online threats.

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Jacobs and NASA are working together to prepare the ground systems, launch equipment and facilities and operations at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to launch a team of four astronauts to the moon as part of the Artemis II mission. Work includes updates to the launch pad 39B and mobile launcher at KSC to facilitate […] More

Amentum and Jacobs have broken ground on a waste disposal facility to support Department of Energy cleanup efforts in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of an $8.3 billion contract the companies’ joint venture won in October 2021. United Cleanup Oak Ridge leads the $550 million Environmental Management Disposal Facility construction project in three phases and […] More

Jacobs has been tapped to work as part of the Walsh Kokosing Design-Build Team for a bridge corridor intended to span approximately eight miles across Kentucky and Ohio. The company said Tuesday it will design the one-mile Ohio segment of the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor project, including interstates 75, 71 and US-50 interchange as well as […] More