Fortmeadehomes' Blog: Fort Meade BRAC

March 5, 2008
  According to a recent Examiner article, the Virginia company Hensel Phelps Construction Co. has been awarded the $370 million dollar contract to build the new  Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) facility on the site of the current golf course on Fort Meade.  The 1 million square foot facility will house an estimated 4,000 DISA employees who are relocating from the current Arlington VA facility in September 2011.   The DISA organization represents the largest segment of workers associated with the BRAC move.  According to BRAC spokesman Army Colonel Kenneth McCreedy "this is the first tangible step in the BRAC transformation at Fort Meade."   The impact of these 4,000 new workers and the additional 4,000 that are now expected to… Read Full Post

It’s coming and so are the budget issues.  Below is a summary from a recent Baltimore Sun Article.  See full article at link below.

State and county officials are hoping that the Army will pitch in to assist with infrastructure upgrades needed to keep pace with the anticipated BRAC growth.  However, with a planned office complex to be built on the base, the building will not generate any tax revenue for the surrounding areas.   That’s right, because it’s on the base they will be tax exempt including impact fees.  This 15 building $700 million dollar office complex is expected to have over 2,000,000 s.f. of office space and two golf courses that would accommodate around 10,000 BRAC related defense contractor employees.  This information is according to a…

Workforce development needed to handle BRAC jobs

By JOSHUA STEWART, Staff Writer
CAPITAL NEWSPAPER
Published September 07, 2007

As tens of thousands of high-tech jobs come to Maryland, state and federal officials are trying to ensure that enough local workers will be available to fill the positions. The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process is set to bring an estimated 60,000 new jobs to the state. But Maryland's work force needs to be ready to capitalize on the opportunity, officials said yesterday at the Maryland Military Installation Council meeting in Crownsville.

"The needs and challenges exist from GED to Ph.D.," Tom Perez, state secretary of labor licensing and regulation, told the military council, which included installation…

There are several schools of thought on the issue of how BRAC  will affect Fort Meade area residents, commuters, business owners, and home owners.   Some think that BRAC is the biggest thing to come to Anne Arundel County ever.  Others recognize that with the growth of the intelligence industry we are seeing thousands of new jobs added to our area each year.   They've just come up a little more quietly without the trumpets and press releases.  But, we can certainly feel their arrival during rush hour can't we.   Traffic is not what it was just two short years ago anywhere in the Fort Meade area.  So what is another 14,000 jobs really going to mean to us?  And will it really be 14,000, or 5,000 or 7,000?  Will the impact of BRAC be felt over two years or…