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.
Mona Bhagat, Business Development Manager, participated in the official ribbon cutting and opening welcome speech at Gastech held in September at the Dubai World Trade Centre. KBR was a principal sponsor for Gastech Hydrogen.
KBR released its first podcast
In Orbit
in July 2021.
The show focuses on people and discusses a range of topics, covering everything from science, technology and engineering to sustainability, inclusion and diversity, and much more.
As part of the KBR EMEA Social Value offering, KBR helps young people learn more about finding and building careers. In a 2014 report, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation found that students who engage in four or more activities with employers and businesses
earned on average 16% more than peers.
KBR currently engages school-age young people through our Open Doors event, the KBR One Ocean educational program, and actual workplace experience.
KBR employees have launched a new ASPIRE chapter in Sioux Falls, South Dakota! ASPIRE is KBR’s employee resource group committed to the development of women and to the promotion of gender diversity and inclusion across the company.
KBR recently developed a
machine learning model
to predict asset performance and enable data-driven decision-making on a wastewater treatment plant for a major Australian water utility.
KBR received the
FY20 Mentor-Protégé Agreement of the Year
for the Agency-level NASA Small Business Industry Awards. NASA also honored KBR as the Large Business Prime Contractor of the Year at Johnson Space Center for the Center-level NASA Small Business Industry Awards.
Our delivery of the UK Army Basing Programme includes medical and dental facilities in Larkhill, which went into service on Jan 22, 2020. It's being used by civilian and military personnel through Defence Primary Health Care.
Do you know our Sustainable Technology Solutions business unit has launched six new trade names this year?
1. K-SEET℠, KBR Sustainable Ethanol to Ethylene Technology 2. K-MEG℠, KBR Mono Ethylene Glycol technology for Ethylene Oxide and Ethylene Glycol 3. Max-Leic℠, KBR Maleic Anhydride Technology 4. K-Boost℠, KBR’s Ammonia Revamp Technology 5. KBR EDGE℠, KBR Engineering & Design Global Excellence 6. Hydro-PRT℠, KBR Hydrothermal Plastics Recycling Technology
Through our
Affinity Flying Services joint venture,
KBR provides flight training aircraft for the UK Ministry of Defence that will be used to instruct the next generation of military personnel.
KBR has already trained over
300 managers
in improving their own and their teams’ mental fitness and well-being in 2021
The KBR-operated galley in Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti recently earned a
five-star accreditation – the Navy's highest level of evaluation for food service operations.
This is the sixth year in a row the camp has won the award.
