URS Selected to Provide Engineering and Construction Services to the Air Force

Business Wire, May 24, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that it has been awarded one of 20 indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts to provide engineering and construction services at bases worldwide for the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) under the Heavy Engineering, Repair and Construction (HERC) contract. The current HERC program ceiling is $6 billion, with the potential to increase to up to $15 billion. Task orders under the contract will be issued over a five-year period, with the option to include three additional one-year ordering periods.

Under the terms of the contract, URS can compete for, or be assigned, task orders that include the design and construction of new facilities and infrastructure, as well as remodeling and upgrading existing facilities and infrastructure at U.S. Air Force installations and potentially other Department of Defense installations worldwide.

Commenting on the contract, Martin M. Koffel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of URS, said: "We are very pleased to have been selected for the HERC contract, which will support several major Department of Defense initiatives, including the global war on terrorism, military transformation and the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure program. URS has a long record supporting AFCEE on a broad range of infrastructure, facilities and environmental assignments across the globe. We look forward to continuing to help the Air Force successfully complete mission-critical projects under the HERC contract."

URS Corporation offers a comprehensive range of professional planning and design, systems engineering and technical assistance, program and construction management, and operations and maintenance services for transportation, commercial/industrial, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 29,400 employees providing engineering and technical services to federal, state and local governmental agencies as well as private clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, power, manufacturing, mining and forest products industries (www.urscorp.com).