URS Awarded Army Chemical Defense Training Facility Contract with Maximum Value of $12 Million.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 URS URS Yours URS Ultimate Roulette System URS Uniform Reporting System URS User Requirement(s) Specification URS Undergraduate Research Symposium URS Unified Registration Statement URS Undergraduate Research Scholars Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : URS) today announced that its EG&G Division has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command to provide operations and maintenance support to the E.F. Bullene Chemical Defense Training Facility (CDTF CDTF Chemical Defense Training Facility CDTF Chemical Demilitarization Training Facility CDTF Chemical Decontamination Training Facility CDTF Civil Disturbance Task Force ) in Fort Leonard Wood Fort Leonard Wood, U.S. army post, 71,000 acres (28,700 hectares), S central Mo.; est. 1940. It is one of the largest basic-training centers in the United States and also provides training for army engineers. , Missouri. Under the terms of the contact, as the Army Training and Doctrine Command issues specific task orders, URS will also provide environmental support, safety oversight, quality control, and protective clothing and equipment certification. The contract includes a six-month base period and four additional one-year option periods. The cost plus award fee contract has a maximum value to URS of $12.2 million over the full four and one-half years assuming all options are exercised. Commenting on the contract win, Martin M. Koffel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of URS, said: "We are pleased with this important win, which marks 18 continuous years of EG&G support for the CDTF program. EG&G has worked closely with the Army to ensure that the military is successfully trained in the detection, identification and decontamination decontamination /de·con·tam·i·na·tion/ (de?kon-tam-i-na´shun) the freeing of a person or object of some contaminating substance, e.g., war gas, radioactive material, etc. de·con·tam·i·na·tion n. of toxic nerve agents. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with the CDTF." 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 surface transportation, air transportation, rail transportation, industrial process, facilities and logistics support, water/wastewater treatment, hazardous waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. management and military platforms support. Headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 26,000 employees providing engineering services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, forest products, mining, oil and gas, and utilities industries (www.urscorp.com). |
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