Parsons broke ground on a facility expansion in Huntsville, Alabama, last week to add a 25,000-square-foot building and 50 new jobs there. The engineering services contractor will use the additional facility to integrate hardware and software platforms for customers across the intelligence, defense and infrastructure sectors, the Huntsville city government said Wednesday. “Previously our space was becoming a […] More

Parsons and PAE have established a new joint venture to compete for a potential 10-year, $82 billion contract vehicle that seeks to help the U.S. Army meet global facility and logistical requirements. Scott Welker, former deputy commander of the Army’s Joint Munitions Command, will serve as president of Rock Island, Illinois-based PAE-Parsons Global Logistics Services JV that will […] More

Parsons has participated in a Massachusetts Institute of Technology program that seeks to establish industrial relationships between global companies and MIT. The company said Wednesday it conducted a kickoff meeting on June 26 with MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of the university’s Industrial Liaison Program. Involvement in ILP would help Parsons’ business units – federal, […] More

Parsons has received an award from the American Planning Association in recognition of its West Pond environmental review efforts for a national recreation area in New York. The company said Monday it accepted the Honor Award for Outstanding Environmental Planning Project from APA’s federal planning division following the conclusion of its environmental assessment work at the Gateway […] More

Carey Smith, president of Parsons‘ federal group, will be the keynote speaker at the Groundbreaking Women in Construction conference, scheduled to be held on May 2 in San Francisco. Parsons said Thursday that Smith will discuss strategies to attract, develop and retain female professionals in the construction industry amid a looming labor shortage during her presentation titled “Challenges & […] More

Carey Smith, president of Parsons‘ federal group, will deliver a keynote speech on April 19 at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 33rd Annual National Logistics Forum in Tampa, Florida. Parsons said Thursday her presentation, titled “Logistics–Military’s Backbone,” will highlight the current state of logistics readiness in the private sector. “The evolving challenges of national security require agile, innovative and timely solutions,” said […] More

Parsons will provide advisory, technical, engineering and management support services to the Missile Defense Agency‘s ballistic missile defense system under a potential five-year, $385 million contract awarded in March. “This new contract expands Parsons’ support of the MDA’s mission to defend the U.S. and its allies against missile threats,” Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said in […] More

Parsons has begun to host a five-day cybersecurity event at its Columbia, Maryland-based facility in an effort to train representatives from military organizations on information assurance and network security. The National Security Agency’s information assurance capabilities group oversees the Cyber Defense Exercise that kicked off Monday in Maryland, Parsons said Monday. “As cyber attacks become […] More

Parsons has secured a potential five-year contract from NASA to provide a range of engineering and technical services to the Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said Wednesday the Facilities Construction, Engineering and Technical Services III contract covers engineering, construction, design-build, information technology and program management services. “We are honored to be awarded this contract and continue our relationship […] More

Parsons has received accreditation under the Defense Department’s Advanced Geophysical Classification Accreditation Program. The company said Tuesday it secured the DAGCAP certification after the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation assessed Parsons’ geophysical classification and technical management platforms. Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, said the company […] More

Parsons has secured a contract of an undisclosed value to provide program management services for an office upgrade project at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The company said Thursday it will also provide architectural design and construction management support at JPL, which the California Institute of Technology.manages for the space agency. Carey Smith, Parsons federal group president, said the […] More

Parsons has received a task order from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to continue to provide surveillance services for land border regiments in Lebanon in support of the country’s Border Security Project. The task order for the project’s second increment was awarded through DTRA’s Cooperative Threat Reduction Integrating Contract II and covers equipment delivery and training […] More