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.

Jacobs has appointed Nino Kharaishvili, a global expert in health security and health system emergency preparedness and resilience, to the company's Federal and Environmental Solutions team as principal of the Health System Resilience practice, the company reported on Thursday.

Jacobs has secured a potential $478.4M extension to the Johnson Space Center Engineering, Technology and Science contract at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, bringing the total contract value to over $1.9B, the company reported on Wednesday. 

Jacobs has promoted Major General Tim Byers to senior vice president and general manager of the company’s federal and environmental solutions business, including support to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients responding to the COVID-19 outbreak, the company said Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 16, 2020 — Jacobs will provide cybersecurity support for the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's enterprise information technology systems under a three-year, $29M contract, ExecutiveGov reported April 6.

Ryan Marks, a former cyber executive at Jacobs, has joined Zeneth Technology Partners to serve as a partner and vice president of technology and innovation.

Jacobs has continued its initiative to develop clean energy with the award of several contracts, with an estimated combined value of more than $25M, by Fusion for Energy, ITER Organization and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the company announced on Tuesday.

The City of Wilmington has awarded Jacobs a potential 24-year, $480M contract to oversee environmental facilities where wastewater and renewable energy activities take place.