Parsons first to receive government certificate for exceeding ISO 9000 requirements.PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1996--Parsons Corp. was recognized Tuesday by the U.S. Department of the Army for its superior work on the Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP CSDP Common Sense for Drug Policy CSDP Certified Software Development Professional (IEEE Computer Society) CSDP Central Securities Depository Participant (South Africa) CSDP Command Supply Discipline Program ). The CSDP is the first program to qualify under the Chemical Biological Defense Command (CBDCOM CBDCOM Chemical Biological Defense Command (Army) ) Contractor Performance Certification Program (CP)2, which is the only government-approved certification program that exceeds the requirements of the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 international quality management system program. ``We are extremely pleased to receive this award from the Department of the Army because Parsons is the first engineering, construction and design contractor to be recognized through this program,'' said Frank DeMartino, president of Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group Inc. ``This award reflects Parsons' experience and excellence in process-engineering design.'' The (CP)2 fosters quality in the work of government contractors, certifying those companies that meet or exceed the program's requirements. Participants are evaluated in areas such as design process control, customer satisfaction and the level of management's commitment. ``The Army Materiel Command Army Materiel Command can refer to:
``This award is a tribute to our passion for quality and a lot of hard work by the dedicated CSDP staff,'' said Dwight Hunt, Parsons vice president and program director. Others attending the ceremony include James F. McNulty, president and chief executive officer of Parsons Corp.; Richard Misiewicz, the Department of the Army's program manager for chemical demilitarization de·mil·i·ta·rize tr.v. de·mil·i·ta·rized, de·mil·i·ta·riz·ing, de·mil·i·ta·riz·es 1. To eliminate the military character of. 2. ; and Dwight Burns, deputy commander, Corps of Engineers, Huntsville Engineering and Support Center. The CSDP is an ongoing, multibillion-dollar program that is disposing of all lethal chemical weapons and chemical agents currently stockpiled in the continental United States United States territory, including the adjacent territorial waters, located within North America between Canada and Mexico. Also called CONUS. . Parsons is providing process and facility design, systems integration and technical-support services to the program, and has completed the designs for six of the eight facilities. The first disposal facility, constructed at Tooele, Utah Tooele (pronounced [tuˌwɪlə], or tuh-WIL-la) is a city in Tooele County in the U.S. state of Utah. The population was 22,502 at the 2000 census. Its estimated population in 2004 was 27,903. , is currently operational. Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group Inc., which conducted the CSDP, is an operating unit operating unit A type of operating company that engages in transactions with outsiders and that is owned by another business. For example, in 1995 the stockholders of Capital Cities/ABC approved a $19 billion merger with the Walt Disney Company, whereupon of Parsons Corp., one of the world's largest full-service engineering, procurement and construction  The introduction to this article is vague. To comply with Wikipedia's guidelines, it should be improved. organizations. Parsons was ranked the top U.S. design firm in 1995 and 1996 by Engineering News-Record, the industry's leading trade publication. Parsons is recognized for superior work in many markets, including federal, infrastructure, transportation, aviation, environmental, power, industrial/pulp and paper, water resources, petroleum/chemical, commercial/entertainment, and community and recreational development. NOTE: For more Parsons information: http://www.parsons.com CONTACT: Parsons Corp., Pasadena Jamie Brown, 818/440-2463 818/545-6024 (pager) jamie_brown@parsons.com (Internet) |
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