Jessica Goodell, formerly a senior project manager at Jacobs, has joined Woolpert as director of portfolio optimization for the company's strategic consulting group.

Jacobs has elected Manny Fernandez, managing partner at KPMG, to the company’s Board of Directors, Jacobs reported on Thursday. Fernandez will retire from KPMG on Sept. 30th and join the Jacobs’ Board of Directors on Oct. 5th. Fernandez will bring nearly four decades of experience, advising both public and private companies. 

Jacobs has elected Vincent Brooks, a retired U.S. Army general, to its board of directors, the company reported announced Monday. Brooks’ areas of expertise ranging from leadership in complex organizations, inclusion and diversity, national security, international relations, military operations, combating terrorism and countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.  

Jacobs was awarded the potential six-year, $455 million Integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment (ITW/AA) and Space Support Contract II (NISSC II) by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the company announced Wednesday.

Jacobs has promoted Ken Gilmartin and Patrick Hill as executive vice presidents within its people and places solutions (P&PS) line of business, effective Aug. 1, the company announced Wednesday.

Northrop Grumman has delivered the motor segments for the Space Launch System’s boosters to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where Jacobs and NASA will perform integration work for the SLS core stage rocket.

Jacobs has been selected to provide project management consultancy to Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) to rehabilitate the Koramangala and Challaghatta (K&C) Valley Used Water Treatment Plant, the company announced Thursday.

Dawne Hickton, head of critical mission solutions business at Jacobs and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the acquisition of KeyW “accelerated that cyber opportunity” for Jacobs, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.

Jacobs has been selected for Anglian Water Services' new Strategic Pipelines Alliance (SPA) to deliver a connective infrastructure across the East of England, the Dallas-based company announced Monday.

Jacobs has secured a potential four-year, $10 million contract to design, build and implement the National Flood Risk Assessment 2 (NaFRA2) system for England's Environment Agency, the company announced Thursday. 

Reuben Maher, formerly a principal and global director of digital innovation and transformation at Jacobs, has joined ActioNet as a senior vice president and chief innovation officer, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday.

Jacobs has partnered with NASA to help develop, test and deploy equipment to support a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to repair a large-scale instrument designed to detect antimatter particles in outer space.

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Jacobs a potential five-year, $100M contract to provide research laboratory support for the EPA Office of Research and Development at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the company reported on Wednesday. The contract went into effect April 1.

Jacobs has secured a potential nine-year, $166M architect and engineering design services contract to  help the Federal Aviation Administration replace, modernize and sustain more than 13K facilities that support the National Air Space, the company reported on Wednesday. 

Jacobs has been selected by Radioactive Waste Management, a subsidiary of the U.K. government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, to study the release of radioactivity from irradiated graphite sampled from reactor cores at the U.K.'s nuclear power stations, Jacobs reported on Tuesday.