page_title: KBR (company)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: KBR (company) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: KBR Tower, part of the Cullen Center, with the former Downtown YMCA below
context_page_description: KBR, Inc. is an American engineering, procurement, and construction company, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton. After Halliburton acquired Dresser Industries in 1998, Dresser's engineering subsidiary, the M. W. Kellogg Co., was merged with Halliburton's construction subsidiary, Brown & Root, to form Kellogg Brown & Root. KBR and its predecessors have received many contracts with the U.S. military including during World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War. Democratic Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson, later President of the United States, was instrumental in providing government contracts for Brown & Root, in exchange for the company funding his campaigns and otherwise providing money to him.
  The company's corporate offices are in the KBR Tower in Downtown Houston.
caption: KBR Tower, the headquarters of KBR and a part of Cullen Center, with the Downtown Houston YMCA ahead
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