As the completion of the first building at Redstone Gateway — the $1 billion office park at Redstone Arsenal being developed under the EUL program — approaches in the fall, the company that is leading the effort has high expectations for the project. “It is not a normal office park. It is a first-class office park …
A combination of two- and four-year Maryland colleges will offer seven new degree programs to support missions coming to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced last week. The commission selected the universities and programs through a collaborative process involving the Army, private sector, higher education community and state government intended to address the growing needs of northeast Maryland’s workforce …
Members of Virginia’s congressional delegation criticized the Defense Department’s occupancy plan for the Mark Center on Thursday, saying it conflicts with reassurances officials had provided earlier that the relocation of 6,400 workers to the Alexandria, Va., site would not cause failing levels of service to local roads. Almost 5,000 workers would move to the facility by the end of the year, with the remaining 1,400 relocating sometime after the new year …
Although it is not considered one of the military’s 25-plus mission growth installations, the population that calls Fort Leonard Wood home clearly is growing, a situation that is not lost on the surrounding community. The central Missouri installation currently trains almost 90,000 students a year, up from 65,000 in 2005 …
For leading Maryland’s efforts to accommodate BRAC mission growth at five installations, estimated to generate 60,000 new jobs, Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown has been named Elected Official of the Year by ADC. After BRAC 2005 became law, Gov. O’Malley appointed Brown chair of the Governor’s BRAC Subcabinet, assigning him the critical task of crafting and implementing a plan to ready the state’s physical infrastructure and human capital …
To address a shortfall in health care facilities at many Army installations experiencing rapid growth, the service needs to expand its capacity to handle medical needs, especially for families and children, according to the report accompanying the FY 2012 military construction and veterans affairs spending bill the Senate Appropriations Committee approved June 30. The committee recommends the Army surgeon general work with Installation Management Command to ensure that adequate facilities …
Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison asks the Army to identify the best U.S. installations to locate a brigade combat team similar to the one scheduled to be brought home from Germany in 2015, in an amendment approved during markup Thursday of the fiscal 2012 military construction and veterans affairs spending bill by the Senate Appropriations Committee. Hutchison’s request follows DOD’s announcement in April that only one of the four Europe-based brigade combat teams would be relocated to the U.S. …
North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue will hold regional military summits in four host communities this summer to assess the military’s impact on local economic development and find out where community shortfalls exist regarding infrastructure, encroachment, education and workforce. “The goal is to get critical information and data from our four major military clusters and their surrounding communities …
A Department of Labor National Emergency Grant awarded last week to Maryland will assist more than 6,500 civilian defense employees, contractors and military spouses affected by BRAC. The $7.7 million grant will allow the state and the District of Columbia to help job seekers navigate the federal hiring process and compete for BRAC and other federal jobs across the region …
The Senate Tuesday rejected a motion to limit debate on a measure to reauthorize the Economic Development Administration at $500 million a year through fiscal 2015, ending Democrats’ effort to pass legislation they described as a “jobs bill.” Majority Leader Harry Reid was forced to hold the cloture vote to avoid allowing the chamber to debate almost 100 amendments, most of which were not related to economic development …