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Jacobs To Spin Off Government Services Biz In Late 2024

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

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Jacobs To Spin Off Government Services Biz In Late 2024

Jacobs [J] said Tuesday it will spin off its Critical Mission Solutions business late next year. The segment includes the brain trust that coordinates Jacobs’ efforts to win big management and operations contracts at Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear-weapon sites, but that is only a small part of Critical Mission Solutions (CMS), which in 2022 had about $4.4 billion in revenue. Jacobs did not provide details about the future independent CMS’ structure. The company announced the spin off the same…

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