URS Selected to Provide Engineering Services for Defense Information Systems Agency

The EG&G Division of the URS Corporation has been selected to provide engineering support services to the Defense Information Systems Agency's Joint Spectrum Center (JSC) under a subcontract with ITT Corporation.

Under the terms of the subcontract, URS will provide engineering systems support, including Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) Activities and Services, Spectrum Frequency Management, Modeling and Simulation, and Software Engineering to assist the JSC in meeting national security and military objectives. The subcontract includes a three-year base period, with seven one-year option periods. The maximum value of the contract to URS is $55 million, if all option periods are exercised.

Commenting on the contract award, Randall A. Wotring, president of the EG&G Division, said: "We are proud to have been selected for this assignment to support the Joint Spectrum Center on its critical mission of providing complete, spectrum-related services to the military. EG&G is a leading provider of advanced engineering support services to the Department of Defense, and we look forward to providing our services under this important assignment."

URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, commercial/industrial, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 28,900 employees providing engineering and technical services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries (www.urscorp.com).