NASA says it wants to switch to a fixed-price contract.

Former CFO Catherine Hunt Ryan will run unit, with target construction markets that include semiconductors, electric vehicles and data centers.

Contractor will begin full construction on Driftwood complex in Louisiana under a $15.5-billion fixed-price contract, but gas projects now are set for added federal scrutiny in a tighter FERC approval policy adopted Feb. 17 in a 3-2 vote.

Work will modernize aging shipyards in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and Washington state's Puget Sound.

Preparations for the Artemis program, which will land the first woman and person of color on the moon, include upgrades to launch facilities and systems.

When Artemis 1 takes off next year, there will be 90 people in the room on launch day. Two-thirds of them will be Jacobs engineers overseeing the launch sequence software they created.

As NASA works on a mission to send the first woman and person of color to the moon, ENR Editor-in-Chief Janice Tuchman exchanged emails with Janet Petro, director of the Kennedy Space Center, to explore how diversity plays out in the agency itself.