Category: BRAC

March 6, 2008

Ft. Monmouth workers to start moving to the area

Filed under: BRAC, Military, Government, Harford County, Federal Gov't - 06 Mar 2008

Baltimore Sun
Some of the first Fort Monmouth, N.J., employees to be transferred to a Maryland installation, taking over the fort’s responsibilities, are scheduled to move this summer.

The Press of Atlantic City reported that by Friday, 221 Fort Monmouth workers …

March 5, 2008

DISA building (at Meade) construction contract awarded

Examiner
A Virginia company won a $370 million contract to build the new home of defense information at Fort Meade.

“The contract award is the first tangible step in the Base Realignment and Closure transformation at Fort Meade,” Army Col. Kenneth …

January 28, 2008

Fort Detrick lab 60% complete, won’t be in service until 2009

Filed under: BRAC, Military, Technology, Terrorism, Frederick - 28 Jan 2008

Frederick News-Post:
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is one of several labs planned or being built for the National Interagency Biodefense Campus.

Construction on the $143 million project is on schedule at 60 percent complete, and should be finished …

State BRAC funding level criticized by Harford officials

Elected officials in Harford County have been critical of Governor Martin O’Malley’s legislative agenda which doesn’t include BRAC funding for the county.

Some quotes:
“I want to see more focus on ground zero for BRAC, and that’s us,” said County Council …

August 16, 2007

BRAC will bring 200 jobs a week to Anne Arundel County

Filed under: BRAC, Anne Arundel County - 16 Aug 2007

An Anne Arundel County official told County Council that the relocation of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to Fort Meade from Arlington, Virginia will run from December 2010 to September 2011 and will result in 4,300 jobs migrating …

April 25, 2007

BRAC: Aberdeen expansion agreement signing

Filed under: BRAC, Business, Military, Government, Harford County - 25 Apr 2007

County executives from Harford, Baltimore and Cecil Counties will join Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon today in signing a memorandum of understanding related to regional planning related to the BRAC expansion at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Officials from Delaware and …

April 19, 2007

BRAC blogging

Filed under: News, BRAC, Business, Military, Government, Harford County - 19 Apr 2007

Since my post about the local impact of the BRAC process (which was also linked to at The Tank), I’ve discovered some more Baltimore-area resources for BRAC information.

One of these is the Harford BRAC Blog, which is …

April 17, 2007

BRAC Impact on the Baltimore area

Filed under: Politics, News, BRAC, Business, Military, Government, NSA - 17 Apr 2007

dod.jpgThe latest round of military base closings and realignments is due to have a significant impact on Maryland and the Baltimore area, especially near Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG.)

This post will …

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