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Coastal Bend LNG selected KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Técnicas Reunidas for FEED on its planned Texas Gulf Coast liquefaction and export facility, using ConocoPhillips’ Optimized Cascade® Process (OCP). Upon a positive final investment decision (FID), KBR and Técnicas Reunidas will execute the EPC phase. The firms will design multiple large-scale trains aimed at cost-competitive LNG production while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Company executives highlighted expertise in LNG, industrial decarbonization, and expectations to maximize facility efficiency and lower carbon intensity.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded a seat on the Missile Defense Agency’s SHIELD Multiple-Award IDIQ contract with a $151B ceiling on January 7, 2026. The contract covers a broad range of work areas to enable rapid delivery of innovative capabilities across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. KBR highlighted its systems engineering, integration, digital engineering, AI/ML, model-based systems engineering and agile processes as core strengths to accelerate deployment, reduce cost and deliver scalable layered-defense solutions under the Golden Dome for America initiative.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded a Technical Support Services Contract by the U.S. Geological Survey with a $350 million ceiling to support the Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The single IDIQ contract runs five years and covers cloud-native architectures, AI/ML, advanced software and systems engineering, secure IT infrastructure, intelligent data analytics, algorithm development and long-term preservation of Earth-observation records.

The work will support USGS preparations for Landsat Next, a three-satellite constellation planned to launch in 2030, and will be performed in Sioux Falls and other U.S. sites. This is KBR's fifth consecutive USGS award after a >24-year partnership.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded a seat on the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command WEXMAC 2.1 TITUS multiple‑award IDIQ contract for readiness and sustainment supporting defense of the continental United States.

The award lets KBR compete for firm‑fixed‑price task orders across a five‑year base period with a five‑year option$10 billion to $20 billion. Services may include stability operations, civil support, supply chain and distribution, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) has been awarded a contract by Fikrat Al-Tadweer to supply its PureMSM green methanol technology for the first biomethanol plant in Saudi Arabia, announced December 16, 2025.

The facility will convert landfill-gas into renewable methanol; KBR will provide technology licensing, proprietary engineering design, catalyst, and proprietary equipment. PureMSM can accept a wide range of feedstocks including biogas, gasification-derived syngas, hydrogen, and pure CO2, aimed at low-cost, commercial-scale renewable methanol production.

KBR said the project aligns with Saudi national policy to eliminate landfill gas emissions and support sustainable fuels, reflecting the company’s ongoing work in commercializing low-carbon process technologies.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded a technology and engineering contract by IGNIS on Dec. 15, 2025 to support a green ammonia facility in A Coruña, Spain. The contract covers KBR proprietary engineering design and pre‑FEED services for a 200,000 tonnes per annum green ammonia plant that will use renewable energy to produce green hydrogen and convert it to green ammonia.

The announcement highlights KBR's ammonia technology portfolio, including H2ACT® ammonia cracking, and notes KBR's historical footprint of licensing, engineering, or constructing over 260 grassroots ammonia plants since 1943.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was awarded an estimated $117M cost-plus-fixed-fee follow-on contract to provide Foreign Military Sales (FMS) support to Naval Air Systems Command’s F/A-18 and EA-18G Program Office (PMA-265).

The five-year scope covers integrated program management, engineering, financial and logistics support for FMS programs with Australia, Finland and Switzerland, and includes sustaining aircraft systems, acquisition and training support, lifecycle logistics and communications security across U.S. and partner-nation locations.

KBR noted its more than 40 years of F/A-18 experience and ongoing partnership with NAVAIR.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) and Axiom Space completed the first uncrewed thermal vacuum test of the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) pressure garment on Nov. 20, 2025, simulating vacuum and extreme temperatures to evaluate thermal performance and advanced materials for Artemis III.

The teams completed the first dual-suit run at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, finished final integration testing in the NBL, achieved over 700 hours of crewed pressurized time, and conducted the thermal vacuum test at KBR’s Aerospace Environment Protection Laboratory in San Antonio.

The AxEMU is in the critical design phase and is moving toward the suit qualification phase with NASA; additional qualification tests are planned.

KBR (NYSE: KBR) was selected by ENKA to deliver multi-discipline detailed engineering design for the Associated Gas Upstream Project Phase 2 (AGUP2), part of the Gas Growth Integrated Project operated by TotalEnergies with BOC and Qatar Energy in Basra, Iraq.

Under a letter of award, KBR will support ENKA’s EPSCC execution for the central processing facility. AGUP2, due to start in 2028, targets processing to 210,000 barrels/day of oil and 154 million scf/day of gas and aims to eliminate routine flaring while supporting Iraq’s energy transition.