2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Ground broken at Ft. Meade (MD)
 
Ft. Meade Readies for Influx
Construction Begins on Buildings for 5,700 New Workers

By Raymond McCaffrey
Washington Post
April 17, 2008

Nearly three years after the Pentagon announced a base realignment plan 
that called for thousands of workers to come to Fort Meade, ground 
finally has been broken on a $369 million complex to accommodate new 
personnel.

The ceremony scheduled yesterday for the Defense Information Systems 
Agency headquarters marked a tangible step in the implementation of the 
Base Realignment and Closure plan. A similar ceremony took place last 
month at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County on a campus to 
accommodate the anticipated influx of workers there.

"This is the first major construction getting underway at Fort Meade," 
said David Ruderman, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, 
Baltimore District.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/16/AR2008041601300.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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