PASADENA, CA (February 9, 2017) – Parsons announced that it has received a contract from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for its Office Upgrade Program Management Services contract at its 176-acre site near Pasadena, CA. Parsons will provide program management, architectural design services, construction administration services (related to the architectural design), and construction management services for the laboratory, which is managed by the California Institute of Technology.

“These new contracts continue our strong relationship with JPL, NASA, and Caltech,” stated Carey Smith, Parsons Group President. “Parsons has a history of 40+ years providing engineering, procurement, and construction services on projects ranging from the Deep Space Network Communication Complexes to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.”

JPL is a national research facility that specializes in robotic exploration of the solar system, and it has 19 spacecraft and 10 major instruments conducting planetary, Earth science, and space-based astronomy missions.