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As part of the company’s competitively bid Construction Capabilities (CONCAP) contract with the U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR is providing power distribution restoration, emergency roof repair and debris removal at three Mississippi Naval facilities that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Additionally, KBR has begun performing damage assessments on other Naval facilities in New Orleans.

Further, under the CONCAP contract, KBR has been tasked to mobilize engineers and support personnel to New Orleans in an effort to assess pumps and infrastructure in the city. With this work, KBR also will construct a facility to support recovery efforts. KBR also has been assigned de-watering activities in New Orleans’ Plaquemines Parish, East and West basins. This work will provide for immediate disaster recovery response to repair pumps and restore utilities to efficiently and rapidly remove the water in this area.

The U.S. Navy uses the CONCAP contract to support immediate needs associated with regional emergencies caused by natural disasters, military-led or military-supported humanitarian assistance or military conflicts. For more information on this contract, which was awarded in July 2004 following a competitive bidding process, please see the company’s press release here.

Under CONCAP and other contracts, KBR has provided extensive relief services for major disasters in the U.S. and abroad for more than 15 years. Following Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tasked KBR with providing planning assistance, damage surveys, expedient debris removal, engineering assessments, repairs to public and private buildings and utilities, and the construction, operation and maintenance of temporary trailer camps for displaced residents. KBR also performed emergency repairs to schools in the region and installed temporary, modular school buildings where necessary. The company began providing disaster relief services to the Navy two days after Hurricane Ivan struck Florida in 1994, and assisted after Hurricane Marilyn in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995 and Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina in 1990. In addition, under the previous CONCAP contract KBR provided emergency repairs in Guam following Super Typhoon Ponsonga from 2002-2004.

KBR also has been contracted by Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, to establish and support a 1,000-person camp which will house electrical workers re-establishing the power grid in Mississippi.

Further, KBR is providing life support facilities for approximately 500 Department of Homeland Security personnel in New Orleans through a competitively-won contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). KBR's contract with ICE was awarded in June 2000 following a competitive bidding process. ICE is one component that completes Border and Transportation Security, which is underneath the Department of Homeland Security.

Report from District of Columbia Army Natioinal Gaurdsman deployed to New Orleans Kellogg, Brown & Root, better known as Halliburton, is doing amazing stuff at Naval Air Station New Orleans. Just like in Kosovo, Baghdad, Khandahar and everywhere else our soldiers deploy to harsh conditions, KBR (as we call them in the military) has rushed in and set up huge dining facilities, brought in comforts and standard-of-living improvements, and made life on base in New Orleans far more better than it otherwise would be with the huge arrivals. One facility they set up is "like hundreds of tents long, huge!" She said they have good food and a lot of variety. They have also set up and facilitated the arrival and assembly of many many other things that are improving conditions there for the soldiers.