# Jacobs

> Jacobs is a global engineering and professional services company serving public agencies, utilities and industrial clients. It combines advisory, planning, design, program delivery, operations and digital tools across water, transportation, energy, advanced manufacturing and life sciences.

- **Founded:** 1947
- **Headquarters:** Dallas, United States
- **Founders:** Joseph J. Jacobs (Founder and chemical engineer)
- **Products:** Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities, PA Consulting, Aqua DNA, Data Center Digital Twin, Dragonfly
- **Notable:** Fiscal Q3 2026 backlog reached $28.9 billion., Jacobs reported ENR number-one rankings in 18 categories in August 2026, including data centers., Jacobs reports receiving the 2015 Stockholm Industry Water Award for water treatment and public acceptance of recycled water.

## Products & services

- **Infrastructure & Advanced Facilities** — Advisory, planning, engineering, design, program and lifecycle management for water, transportation, energy, environmental, advanced manufacturing and life sciences projects.
- **PA Consulting** — Innovation, strategy and transformation consulting; remaining equity acquired by Jacobs in March 2026.
- **Aqua DNA** — Wastewater network monitoring and predictive analytics integrating sensors, SCADA and operational data. UK G-Cloud listing: £60,000 per instance per year.
- **Data Center Digital Twin** — Engineering models, live facility data and simulation built on NVIDIA Omniverse libraries; selected for NVIDIA R&D facility under a three-year SaaS agreement in September 2026.
- **Dragonfly** — AI-assisted CCTV inspection defect coding with engineering quality assurance for sewer asset assessment.
- **Argon** — Combines inspection, GIS and work-order data for deterioration modeling and rehabilitation planning.

## Achievements

- Fiscal Q3 2026 backlog reached $28.9 billion.
- Jacobs reported ENR number-one rankings in 18 categories in August 2026, including data centers.
- Jacobs reports receiving the 2015 Stockholm Industry Water Award for water treatment and public acceptance of recycled water.
- Completed separation of Critical Mission Solutions and Cyber & Intelligence government services businesses and their merger with Amentum in September 2024.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Selected by NVIDIA to deploy a Data Center Digital Twin under a three-year SaaS agreement.
- **2026-09** — Jacobs-AECOM joint venture appointed program delivery partner for MetroLink by Transport Infrastructure Ireland.
- **2026-08** — Reported fiscal Q3 gross revenue of $4.076 billion and backlog of $28.9 billion.
- **2026-03** — Completed acquisition of the remaining PA Consulting stake for approximately £1.2 billion upfront (approximately $1.6 billion).

## Links

- Website: https://www.jacobs.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/jacobs/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/JacobsConnects
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jacobsworldwide
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jacobsconnects/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JacobsConnects/

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Last updated: 2026-10-22