KBR Fast Facts
With approximately 29,000 employees throughout nearly 40 countries and customers in close to 80, there’s never a shortage of interesting facts to learn about KBR. Each quarter, KBR Fast Facts fills you in on some new and exciting things you may not know about our people, culture and work from across the globe.
KBR conducts spacesuit and hardware training for astronauts at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in Houston, Texas. At the bottom of the world’s largest indoor pool is a full-scale replica of the International Space Station where trainees experience neutral buoyancy, simulating the microgravity of space.
KBR’s spacesuit management training at NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory was featured in the National Geographic Disney+ Original series
"The World According to Jeff Goldblum,"
episode 111
entitled "Pools,” in which he discovers firsthand the unique qualities of water and humans’ relationship to it.
KBR’s training and education global learning management system offers
a library of over
46,000
learning modules, expert videos, eBooks and support tools, available to every employee.
Around the world, employees, their families and students have joined forces to clean beaches and waterways in their respective regions as a part of KBR’s One Ocean initiative. As of 2020, more than
1,500 of us
cleared hundreds of tons of waste
across our global footprint.
As a global company, we impact economies and business growth in the communities where we operate, providing opportunities for disadvantaged businesses and local suppliers where appropriate. Currently, KBR uses more than
97,000 suppliers
in 170 countries.
KBR helps to operate
one of the world’s largest data centers,
which provides end-to-end land science data and imagery used by a variety of geographic applications, such as Google Maps.
Ahead of Earth Day 2021, KBR’s office in Singapore unveiled its "Garden in the Sky,” a
new green space
where employees can take a break from their screens, reflect and collaborate. The Singapore office celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
KBR has been a major sponsor of the
Army Ten-Miler race and expo for 16 years,
which directly benefits family, morale, welfare and recreation programs and serves to enrich soldiers' and their families' lives culturally and creatively.
KBR supports NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission, which endures temperatures approaching
2,600
degrees Fahrenheit.
It flies closer to the sun than any other human-made object, but it won’t melt.
After many months of engaging, training and participating in the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) Women, Peace and Security (WPS) program, KBR recently became
one of the first companies to become fully certified by ISOA,
a significant achievement underscored by KBR’s culture of Zero Harm.
U.S. Naval Test Wing Atlantic named KBR’s John Holder the 2020 U.S. Naval Test Pilot School Instructor of the Year. A former Royal Navy test pilot who goes by his call sign “Noddy,” John belongs to KBR’s flight test team, which is one of the
world's largest independent flight test organizations.
