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Feedback Requested: Fort Meade Employee Welcome Guide
What will you need to know when your office is relocated to Fort Meade? Tell us now and we’ll make sure it’s included in the Employee Welcome Guide (Workspaces download) that will be distributed to all DISA employees prior to their relocation!
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Money for BRAC construction allocated, WPAFB officials say
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force already has been allocated all the money needed to complete the $332 million construction program required to meet the legal deadline of Sept. 15, 2011, for relocating programs from other military bases to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, base officials and supporters said. The infusion of research programs [...]
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Tempers flare over Alexandria BRAC project
Alexandria officials are fuming about the Army’s plans to relocate 6,400 military workers to the city’s Mark Center, while staffers try to plan for the anticipated crush of traffic. The employees are transferring under the federal government’s Base Realignment and Closure plan, which mandates the relocation of thousands of military employees nationwide by September 2011. [...]
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PipelineNC.com Launched in Fort Bragg Region
The BRAC Regional Task Force (BRAC RTF) has launched PipelineNC.com, an education and workforce Internet platform for job seekers and employers in the Fort Bragg region. PipelineNC.com aligns and integrates the area’s labor supply, education, employment and training capabilities, and emerging employer occupational demands. The BRAC RTF was awarded a U.S. Department of Labor Workforce [...]
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Air Transportation Survey Deadline JAN 8
The BRAC Regional Task Force encourages you to take the Air Transportation survey on or before January 8. The survey prepared by InterVistas Consulting Group will determine the feasibility for direct air service from Fayetteville Regional Airport to Washington, D.C. There are two surveys — one for business and another for personal travel. Surveys are [...]
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BRAC Relocation coming to Northeast Maryland – ARE YOU READY?
By 2011 the Base Realignment And Closure relocation from Fort Monmouth New Jersey to Aberdeen Proving Grounds is expected to be completed. Between now and then an estimated 28,000 new jobs will be created and an estimated 60,000 new residents will be living in and around our area. This process has not really started yet, [...]
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BRAC Transferees to Receive Immediate In-State Tuition
One of the main motivators behind recent construction growth at the University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) is the expected influx of new students related to Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) job relocations. Upwards of 7,000 government jobs are being moved to the Huntsville area by the end of 2012. Thus in an effort to better [...]
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BRAC News
Just to set the record straight this is the last place anyone should be looking for definative word on the BRAC realignment and its effect on the City of Ridgecrest. I am not in the loop, the know, or the inside for BRAC information. All I really know is what I hear on the radio, [...]
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Move Schedule Update and Related Information Concerning the Accrual of Annual Leave
On March 26, Army LTG Carroll F. Pollett, DISA’s director, announced to the workforce that the first moves into the Command Building at Fort Meade — which were originally slated to take place in Oct. 2010 — will take place in Jan. 2011. Similarly, the move into the Operations Building — originally slated for Jan. 2011 — has been changed to Feb. 2011, and the move into the Acquisitions Building has been changed from Feb. 2011 to March 2011. All of the moves to Ft. Meade will be completed by July 2011 as originally scheduled.
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Information Regarding Change in Duty Station Status and PCS Entitlements
As the agency prepares to move to Maryland, the established duty station for new job announcements will reflect Ft. Meade as the official duty station. In addition, BRAC-related PCS entitlements for new hires — from both inside and outside of the agency — will also change.
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DISA Headquarters Facility Reaches Major Safety Milestone
The DISA headquarters facility at Fort Meade, Md., surpassed the milestone of one million exposure man-hours without a lost time injury as of February, 2010.
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Developers Expect BRAC to Fill New Building
The five-story, 161,000-square-foot office building at National Business Park just northwest of Fort George G. Meade should be completed in about a year.
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Maryland Secures $42 Million in Federal Funding for BRAC
Maryland’s congressional delegation has lined up an additional $42 million in federal funds to help Greater Baltimore’s major military installations prepare for a massive infusion of new government workers.
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Web Site Assists in Identifying Maryland Higher Education Opportunities
The Maryland Higher Education Commission has launched a Web site devoted to helping BRAC employees interested in obtaining a Master’s or Doctorate-level degree.
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Fort Meade Alliance to Host Relocation Fair June 10
The Fort Meade Alliance — a group composed of public and private organizations advocating growth in the Fort Meade region — will host a relocation fair on Wednesday, June 10 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center.
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Time-Lapse Construction Animation
A video depicting the start-to-finish construction of DISA's new facility is now available.
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Fort Meade Thoroughfare Undergoes Improvements
Cooper Avenue, a main thoroughfare on Fort Meade, will be widened and resurfaced beginning in March. Hensel Phelps, the primary contractor for construction of the new DISA facility will approach the road improvements — which include the installation of erosion and sediment controls — in three phases.
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Shuttle Service from Odenton Station to Fort Meade Now Operational
The shuttle — operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) — will transport any passenger with valid DoD identification or a Fort Meade visitor pass from the station to the post. The shuttle will also pick up garrison employees bound for the station.
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State Offers Education Grants to Entice Relocating Workers
Maryland is offering college financial assistance to those relocating to the state's expanding military bases. Employees and their families and contractors working with agencies relocating to Maryland due to Base Realignment and Closure are eligible for 22 available grants, totaling $110 million, to attend two- and four-year public colleges and universities.
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What are My Options and When Do I Have to Make a Decision?
A memo providing updates on DISA’s base realignment and closure (BRAC) move to Fort Meade, Md., was released to the workforce Oct. 29. The correspondence specifically addressed four items of significance to all BRAC affected employees: Transfer of Function (TOF) letters, Permanent Change of Station (PCS) benefits, the DoD Priority Placement Program (PPP), and severance pay.
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The New DISA Complex
Construction is underway on DISA's new complex in Fort Meade, Md. Comprised of seven buildings, the planned facility will be 1.1 million square feet — approximately the size of 21 football fields — and will occupy a 95 acre campus.
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Primer: Understanding Military Base Realignment and Closure
The Pentagon proposed shutting about 180 military installations from Maine to Hawaii including 33 major bases, triggering the first round of base closures in a decade and an intense struggle by communities to save their facilities. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld also recommended a list of scores of other domestic installations including 29 major bases [...]
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MD Lt. Governor Brown Announces Significant BRAC Transportation Progress at Fort Meade
Federal, State, and local officials sign MOU to develop Transportation Demand Management Plan; State to provide $200,000 to launch Baltimore Region’s first Guaranteed Ride Home Program; Private developer agreement funds the first MD 175 widening project.
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Military families face unique issues, in addition to those shared by anyone relocating to a new area: Choosing a local lender who “gets” military pay, for example, or finding temporary lodging at one of the military installations in the area. As a Naval Officer’s wife for many years, I walked in your shoes and experienced many of [...]
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