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Aecom has been selected by the San Diego Unified School District to continue serving as a prime consultant, providing supplemental support services for the District's capital bond programs. Projects under the program include the delivery of new classrooms, safety and security upgrades, and sustainability improvements.

Aecom was awarded a position on the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. With a ceiling of $151B, the contract encompasses a broad range of work areas that allow for the rapid delivery of innovative capabilities with increased speed and agility. The SHIELD contract covers a full spectrum of professional services for facility modernization.

AECOM will provide design and technical services as part of the ILIOS consortium, which has been appointed by UK Fusion Energy as Construction Partner for the first three-year, GBP 200M tranche of the pioneering Spherical Tokamak for Energy Productionprogram. The appointment covers the design and build of a world-leading prototype fusion power plant in the Midlands and forms part of a wider program with future opportunities valued at up to GBP 10B. STEP, sponsored by the UK Government Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, is the UK's flagship fusion energy program aiming to provide a sustainable energy source for everyday life, marking a major milestone in the transition to low carbon energy. The expertise brought by the consortium will support the government's aims to deliver on the huge long-term potential offered by fusion energy. Led by UK Fusion Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of the UK Atomic Energy Authority, the program aims to deliver a commercially viable fusion power plant at West Burton in Nottinghamshire, by 2040. ILIOS is led by a Kier Nuvia joint venture, with AECOM, Turner & Townsend and AL_A providing specialist support. It will play a central role in the integrated delivery team adopted by UKIFS, working alongside UKAEA as fusion partner to deliver the prototype power plant.

AECOM announced that Newtown Creek CSO Partners, a joint venture of AECOM, Parsons Corporation and EPC Consultants Inc., has been selected by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection to provide construction supervision services for the City's first combined sewer overflow storage tunnel and pump station project. The contract is part of NYCDEP's long-term effort to modernize wastewater infrastructure and significantly reduce combined sewer overflows to Newtown Creek, a federally-designated Superfund site spanning Brooklyn and Queens. Under the agreement, the joint venture will oversee the delivery of approximately 3.25 miles of tunnel and related facilities, including underground storage and conveyance tunnels, a tunnel dewatering pump station and connections to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility. Once completed, the system is expected to provide up to 50 million gallons of storage capacity, with the goal of significantly reducing CSO discharges to Newtown Creek.