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Groundbreaking Ushers in New Era in Defense Intelligence Analysis
August 13 , 2008
By Jerry Rogers
Norfolk District Public Affairs
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Defense Intelligence Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers ushered in a new era for intelligence analysis with the ceremonial groundbreaking of the Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility, or JUIAF, here Aug. 12.
The $61 million design-build military construction project, awarded to Archer Western Contractors of Chicago, Ill., on April 1, is under the management of the Corps' Norfolk District.
The 170,000 square-foot facility, a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure authorization, is set for completion in spring of 2010. The facility will merge intelligence operations -- approximately 800 people from DIA and 200 from the Army National Ground Intelligence Center -- provide enhanced command and control, promote acquisition, assimilation, and analysis of real-time intelligence, and enhance organizational productivity, inter-agency connectivity and inter-operability.
Colonel Steve Hood, commander of NGIC, said his organization will not compete with the new JUIAF, but that the two facilities will work in tandem to solve military-related problems through information-sharing and joint-intelligence analysis. "We will see increased collaboration," said Hood.
The Defense Department estimates this BRAC action will bring 1,500 additional long-term jobs to the Charlottesville, Va. vicinity.