Jacobs Receives Engineering Support Services Contract for Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division

PASADENA, Calif., June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today it received a contract to provide engineering support services for the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD). Work will be performed primarily at the China Lake and Point Mugu, Calif., test sites.

The contract, effective July 1, 2009, has a value of $170.6 million over a five-year period.

Jacobs has supported the NAWCWD since 1995, providing systems engineering, test and evaluation, technical data and management support.

In making the announcement, Jacobs President and CEO Craig Martin stated, "We are very pleased to continue our successful relationship with the Navy's Weapons Division, and to contribute to the success of its programs and missions. Furthermore, we especially look forward to helping our client address the challenges that come with base closure and realignment activities."

NAWCWD is the principal research, development, test and evaluation, and in-service engineering agency for air warfare and missile weapon systems.

Jacobs' teammates on the contract are Aegir Systems; Qualis Corporation; New Directions Technologies, Inc. (NDTI); and Systems Application & Technologies, Inc. (SA-TECH).

Jacobs, with annual revenues exceeding $12 billion, is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of technical, professional, and construction services.

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