URS Corp. (NYSE: URS) has won a potential $129, 981, 057 task order to build a land-based missile defense site at a U.S. Navy facility in Hawaii, the Defense Department announced Monday.
Under the firm-fixed price order, company will build an installation and testing site for Aegis Ashore missile defense components at Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands in Kauai, Hawaii.
The facility will also have a radar deckhouse, support building, launch pad, electrical power, communications, potable water, sewer connection and incidental work for testing government-installed weapons systems.
Seventy-two percent of the work will occur in Kauai, Hawaii, and the rest in Moorestown, N.J.
The Pentagon expects the work to finish by November 2013 and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command at Pearl Harbor is the contracting activity.
URS also is providing environmental services to the Army inside the U.S. under a $100 million contract, which the Pentagon expects to complete by May 2017.
