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accession: "0001357615-24-000064"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KBR"
cik: "0001357615"
company_name: "KBR, INC."
filed_at: "2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-29T01:22:12.107466+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# KBR's Board Chair Lyles to retire at 2025 annual meeting; Byron Bright named COO effective May 2025

## Summary
- General Lyles to retire as Board Chair at conclusion of 2025 annual meeting; served on board since 2007, Chair since 2019.
- Board size reduced from 10 to 9 members effective same date.
- Byron Bright appointed COO effective May 2025; oversight of Government Solutions and Sustainable Technology Solutions.
- Bright, current President of Government Solutions U.S., joined KBR in 2010; no related party transactions.
- CEO Stuart Bradie to become Chair of Board immediately after Lyles' retirement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001357615-24-000064
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KBR
- cik: 0001357615
- company_name: KBR, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-12-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1357615/000135761524000064/0001357615-24-000064-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1357615/000135761524000064/kbr-20241217.htm

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