Kent Wilcher, former vice president of growth and sales at Jacobs (NYSE: J), has been named senior vice president and chief growth officer at Los Angeles-based space systems technology provider LinQuest.

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The Buffalo Group has completed its sale to professional services firm Jacobs (NYSE: J) via a transaction where Baird served as the exclusive financial adviser to the Reston, Virginia-based analytics and technology company. Jacobs said Tuesday it made the acquisition to expand government mission support across the cyber, ground, sea, airborne and space domains.

Jacobs (NYSE: J) will deploy Raman spectroscopy technology to provide safer identification of radioactive contamination and hazardous substances in waste stores and nuclear facilities undergoing decommissioning, the company announced Tuesday.

Valerie Roberts, senior vice president of global strategy at Jacobs' (NYSE: J) critical mission solutions business, recently caught up with ArchIntel to discuss her view on how in-person networking and business intelligence processes can help CI teams create actionable insights. This is the seventh in a series of interviews with Competitive Intelligence and GovCon executives who share their insights about creating and sustaining a competitive advantage.

Jacobs (NYSE: J) and John Holland, an Australian rail group, will partner to deliver design and construction services to Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) under the approximate two-year, $195 million More Trains, More Services - North Works Package project, Jacobs announced Tuesday.

A joint venture between Amentum and Jacobs (NYSE: J) has received a potential two-year contract modification that will extend the partnership’s work with the Department of Energy on environmental remediation efforts at the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2020 — Dawne Hickton, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the critical mission solutions business at Jacobs (NYSE: J) and a 2020 Wash100 inductee, said the company has seen increased opportunity to do cyber work one year after completing its purchase of KeyW, ExecutiveBiz reported July 1.

A joint venture between Jacobs (NYSE: J) and architecture company B&M has won a potential five-year, $99M U.S. Navy contract to support construction projects within the Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s Pacific area of operations.

A joint venture between Jacobs (NYSE: J) and Black & Veatch has won a potential five-year, $85M contract to provide architectural and engineering support to military construction projects within Naval Facilities Engineering Command's Hawaii area of responsibility.