John Mogge, director of federal solutions and technology at Jacobs Engineering Group's buildings, infrastructure and advanced facilities business, has received the Gerald C. Brown Mentoring Award from the Society of Military Engineers.

Tom Ruschkewicz, a more than 25-year surveying and geospatial industry veteran, has joined Woolpert as roads and bridges geospatial practice leader for the company's transportation market area.

Jacobs has removed almost 60K pounds of contaminant chemicals from the Velsicol Superfund Site under an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency for in-situ thermal treatment. The company said Wednesday it heated soil and groundwater on the St. Louis, Mich.-based site's Area 1 to get rid of chlorinated solvents, specialty chemicals, oils and petroleum contaminating the grounds.

Jacobs Engineering Group will continue to help NASA operate the space agency’s research facility in Hampton, Va., under a one-year, $46M contract extension. The company said Wednesday it will perform design engineering work at the Langley Research Center and manage projects, construction, assets and configuration tasks for laboratories, test equipment, wind …

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a potential 10-year, $62M contract to modernize, manage and sustain wastewater facilities in Waterbury, Conn. The contract’s scope of work includes modernization of the city’s watershed system, adjustment of treatment and waste collection processes and planning of long-term fixes, Jacobs said Thursday. Waterbury approached the company …

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a one-year extension contract from the Energy Department to continue environmental remediation efforts at the Columbia River and parts of the decommissioned Hanford nuclear production site. The company said Wednesday it will extend work under a previously awarded 10-year contract through Sept. 20, 2019. Services include demolition, …

Jacobs Engineering Group and NASA have concluded tests of a parachute system that would support re-entry activities of the Orion spacecraft. The team conducted the Capsule Parachute Assembly System‘s final qualification test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground facility in Arizona, the company said Thursday. During the test, a C-17 aircraft …

Jacobs Engineering Group has transported to a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida a 380-foot-tall mobile launcher designed to support NASA’s Exploration Mission-1. The company said Tuesday it moved ML atop Crawler Transporter-2 toward launch pad 39B for interface fit checks and then transported the launcher back to the …

Jacobs Engineering Group’ technology business has received an $87.4M contract modification from the U.S. Army to provide support services to the Aberdeen Test Center located in Maryland. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will conduct testing efforts in support of ATC’s automotive, firepower, survivability/lethality, technology and warfighter mission areas. The …

Jacobs Engineering Group has received a $13.9M bridge contract from the U.S. Navy to provide information technology and assurance support to the Defense Department‘s focal office responsible for overseeing F-35 weapons systems. The Defense Department said Monday that Jacobs’ technology business will continue to help the F-35 Joint Program Office manage IT and …

Jacobs Engineering Group, a Comprehensive Long-term Environmental Action Navy program contractor, has received recognition for its cleanup efforts in Vieques, Puerto Rico, as part of an environmental restoration team along with the U.S. Navy. Jacobs said Thursday the team received the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy and Chief of Naval …

Jacobs Engineering Group will collaborate with Akima Support Operations to help maintain facilities at NASA‘s Goddard Space Flight Center as part of a potential  $131.7 million contract. Jacobs said Wednesday it will serve as Akima’s strategic contract partner to support GSFC’s Facilities Operations and Maintenance Division. NASA awarded the five-year Facilities Operations and Maintenance Services …

Sagetech has been chosen to provide a transponder system for integration into a PAE ISR-made unmanned aerial system. The PAE–American Operations Corp.–Battlespace Flight Services joint venture will equip the Resolute Eagle UAS platform with MX transponders, Sagetech said Tuesday. Jake Jacobs, chief technology officer at PAE ISR, said the transponder will work to increase Resolute Eagle’s aircraft detection and …

A joint venture between Jacobs Engineering Group and CDM Smith has received a potential $100 million contract to provide disaster response services for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The services will encompass public assistance recovery operations, construction, project management and technical support designed to alleviate damage in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, Jacobs …

Jacobs Engineering Group will provide architectural and engineering consultancy services to the U.S. Africa Command under a five-year indefinite-delivery contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Europe District. The company said Tuesday it will help AFRICOM develop, assess, design, monitor and evaluate infrastructure projects in over 15 African nations …