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URS Awarded Air Force Contract to Provide Support Services for C-26 Aircraft

Business Wire, May 14, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO -- URS Corporation (NYSE: URS) today announced that its EG&G Division has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) for the C-26B Aircraft for the Army National Guard and the RC-26B for the Air National Guard. The contract has an initial six-month base period, followed by nine, one-year option periods. Assuming all option years are exercised, the maximum value of the contract to URS is $148 million.

Under the terms of the contract, EG&G will provide maintenance and repair services for 11 Air National Guard and 11 Army National Guard C-26 aircraft, including support services for aircraft intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. The work will be performed at 20 sites in the United States.

Commenting on the contract award, Randall A. Wotring, President of the EG&G Division, said: "This is an important win for URS, which underscores our position as a leading provider of outsourced maintenance and modification services to the military. Through the EG&G Division, URS has long experience providing these services for military ground and aviation systems, including C-130 and T-38 aircraft, as well as related logistical support. We look forward to continuing this important work under the new CLS program 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, facilities, environmental, water/wastewater, industrial infrastructure and process, homeland security, installations and logistics, and defense systems. Headquartered in San Francisco, the Company operates in more than 20 countries with approximately 29,500 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).

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