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PigBoy
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« on: April 09, 2005, 09:48:48 AM » |
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From the Dayton Daily News web site: $50M WPAFB project bolsters intelligence site
Gathers, analyzes foreign aerospace technology dataBy Timothy R. Gaffney Dayton Daily News WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | Already the Air Force's largest high-security intelligence site, the National Air and Space Intelligence Center is about to see a major expansion, a top national intelligence official said here Friday. A construction project scheduled to start in July will expand the 540,000-square-foot NASIC complex by another 155,000 square feet, and the two-story structure will be built to support two more levels if necessary, said Navy Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency... www.daytondailynews.com
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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2005, 10:55:33 AM » |
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Excellent! I guess there isn't much likelihood the base will be closed down now.
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PigBoy
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2005, 11:42:16 AM » |
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^ The whole base closed down? That hasn't ever been likely, has it?
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2005, 01:24:37 PM » |
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Well, it's been kicked around. Rumsfeld and the Pentagon want to close down a lot of bases like we did from about 1988-1995.
While WPAFB hasn't been one mentioned specifically as being targeted, nobody really knows for sure which ones will be closed until visits to all current installations are made.
Candidates for closure will be released and approved by Bush in September.
That's why such investment is a promising sign, and I can't really see WPAFB being shut down at all.
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Jeff
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« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2005, 12:50:24 AM » |
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Actually the initial BRAC list will be released in May.
As for new construction, that doesn't gaurantee a thing. There was a sigifigant amount of new construction at McCellan AFB in California back during the 1980s (including a nuclear reactor/aircraft inspection/x-ray facility), and that installation was closed via one of the BRAC tranches during the 1990s.
Rather than closure hopefully WPAFB will be a reciever base.
NASIC, or its predecessor unit, was how WPAFB got connected to UFOs & aliens & "Rosewell"..how the "hangar 18" urban legend got started.
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2005, 01:25:06 PM » |
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From the 5/13/05 Dayton Daily News:Wright-Pat has $298M wish list
Airfield, infrastructure improvements take up most of requests through 2011By Timothy R. Gaffney
Dayton Daily NewsWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | More than $298 million in construction projects are on Wright-Patterson's wish list for the next six years, a base engineer said Thursday. The base has $58.9 million pending in the fiscal year 2006 budget, and its five-year plan for 2007 to 2011 includes 17 projects worth $239.3 million, said Jerry Shofner, a base civil engineer... http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0513baseconstruction.html
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2005, 11:27:25 AM » |
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From the 5/18/05 Dayton Daily News:Museum eyed as conference site
Air Force proposes using popular attraction to host leadership meetingsBy Timothy R. Gaffney
Dayton Daily NewsWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | Already a major Ohio tourist attraction, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is being considered as an Air Force conference site. The Air Force Materiel Command and base civil engineers are studying a concept for a conference center that includes a 2,000-seat auditorium, smaller meeting facilities and office space, a command spokesman said... Contact Timothy Gaffney at (937) 225-2390.http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/0518conferencecenter.html
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Jeff
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« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2005, 05:07:39 PM » |
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Ohios largest single-site employer (supposedly) in graphs and numbers.... First, to set the stage, some macro-level graphs from the CSBP, showing the Defense budget since before WWI as a % of GDP, and Defense budget authority since 1947....to compare with the WPAFB employment numbers. One can see the WWI spike and the US being relatively cheap on defense until WWII, then a demobilization, and a spike back up for Korea + Cold War..with spending staying high throughout the Cold War....although it seems cyclical with a range....   WPAFB civilian and military employment.   ..it does slightly track with the macro-level graphs..but note the high civilian employment, even early on. This was due to WPAFB being a big depot maintenance activity in the pre-WWII and WII era, then the Cold-War era R&D probably kept civilian employment high after the depot was shut down. Then there was that big drop in the Clinton years...
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PigBoy
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« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2005, 11:16:27 AM » |
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These are numbers I remember wondering about in some previous discussion. Thanks for posting these graphs!
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Any kind of new jobs for Dayton is GREAT news!! More jobs on the way to WPAFB
An intelligence unit will be administered out of Springfield and operate from Wright-Pat.By Jessica Wehrman Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The Air Force and the Ohio National Guard announced Tuesday that they will bring what could be hundreds of new intelligence jobs to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base... Contact this reporter at (202) 887-8328 or jwehrman@coxohio.comwww.daytondailynews.com
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Too bad for springfield...but rock on dayton 
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Air Force plans aerospace medicine institute at Wright-Pat By Timothy R. Gaffney Staff Writer DAYTON — Air Force officials on Monday unveiled a proposed Institute of Aerospace Medicine to be built at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The institute would combine the aerospace medical activities already at Wright-Pat with more functions between now and 2011 under the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure law... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com. www.daytondailynews.com
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From the 6/28/06 Dayton Daily News:Wright-Pat helping with flexible wing technologyBy Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff WriterWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — A huge wind tunnel here and a tiny Michigan company are helping Air Force researchers test radical new flight technology. The Air Force Research Laboratory is using its subsonic wind tunnel, the size of a house, to test a wing with a back edge that flexes and twists — instead of using hinged flaps — for maximum efficiency... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com. http://www.daytondailynews.com/business/content/business/daily/062806wing.html
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buildingcincinnati
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From the 7/4/06 Dayton Daily News:Wright-Pat-based unit must pare 750 jobs
The Materiel Command is to slim down as part of an overall Air Force shuffle.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff WriterWRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE | The Air Force Materiel Command is preparing to trim 750 civilian positions across the organization next year as part of a broader Air Force downsizing initiative, a spokesman said Monday. The civilian job reductions are mandated in the proposed Air Force budget for fiscal year 2007, which starts Oct. 1, AFMC Spokesman David Levingston said. The impact on individual AFMC bases "has not yet been determined," Levingston said. Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com. http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/070406afmc.html
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2006, 03:03:28 PM » |
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From the 9/14/06 DDN:Wright-Pat deal means hundreds of IT jobs
Air Force effort to replace computer systems at base a boon to area's information technology work force.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Thursday, September 14, 2006 DAYTON — Last week's $628 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. is just part of the huge database modernization effort at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, senior managers said Wednesday. And a job-staffing professional said the work should generate hundreds of local information technology jobs in the next few years... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/13/ddn091406itupdate.html
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2006, 03:06:53 PM » |
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Both from the 9/15/06 DDN:Coalition says plan would create 3,000 jobs
A local group applies for a $60 million grant to create a 'megacenter' linked to work in Wright-Pat's future.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Friday, September 15, 2006 A business and university team led by the Dayton Development Coalition has applied for a $60 million state grant to create a research and commercialization "megacenter" tied to the military aerospace medical work coming to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The nonprofit business-development group claims the proposed Ohio Edge Medicine Center would create 3,000 jobs and "attract or grow" 40 businesses in the next 10 years... Grant competition...
http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/09/15/ddn091506megacenter.html
'Megacenter' would show fruit of Wright-Pat's win
Medical research work is being consolidated here as part of the base-closing process.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Friday, September 15, 2006 The Dayton Development Coalition's bid for a state-funded research and commercialization "megacenter" would capitalize on the region's win in last year's military base-closing process, a coalition said Monday. "This is the culmination of our strategy to grow the region around the capabilities" being relocated to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Coalition Spokesman Evan Scott said... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/local/2006/09/15/091506megacenterinside.html
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« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2006, 08:58:53 PM » |
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From the 9/20/06 DDN:Base work could swell population by 3,800
As Wright-Pat takes in work from other sites, workers and their families will move to region.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 20, 2006 RIVERSIDE — Up to 3,800 government workers and family members could swell the populations of local communities as military work in other states relocates to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, its commander said Tuesday. Wright-Pat expects to gain 700 military and 550 civilian positions by this time in 2011 as the Air Force implements the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, Col. Colleen Ryan said. She expects the jobs to begin moving here in 2008. But the total population change will be much larger when family members are counted, she said... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/09/19/ddn092006bracupdate.html
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Jeff
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« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2006, 09:34:10 PM » |
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Great, just what Dayton needs, more suburban conservatives.
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JDD941
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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2006, 10:13:03 PM » |
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^^does that number count the aliens that are housed there as well?
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Jeff
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« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2006, 10:18:05 PM » |
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^^
the whole place is alien, as far as Im concerned. The Dayton Deathstar.
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« Reply #21 on: September 23, 2006, 02:27:28 AM » |
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Great, just what Dayton needs, more suburban conservatives.
Jeff I work for the defense industry near Wright Patt, we aren't all conservatives. This is great news for Dayton.
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Jeff
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« Reply #22 on: September 23, 2006, 12:30:08 PM » |
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Monte you are a special case..a member of the defense community who really appreciates cities. I wish more are like you, because that would mean more people moving into Dayton proper and restoring old houses or moving into downtown lofts or housing, and patronizing events and places in the city.
It seems the local defense community is pretty relentlessy suburban or wanting to live in small towns or mini-farms. Sure, their actual job is probably something very cutting edge and high-tech, but the ethos is sort of small town/rural, or thats the lifestyle they aspire to, or their preferred environment.
I go to a lot of things in town, not just going to see bands, but things like Cityfolk and peforming arts events from the Ballet, Opera, etc. In the program one can see who the donors are..the buisnesses as well as individuals. There are precious view with rank after their name, and the base never shows up as a corporate or government donor. I figure it is pretty much the same with the civilan and contractor workforce.
This is a contrast with places like Lexis-Nexis or NCR, where they are corporate sponsors, and in the case of Lexis-Nexis the workers there are asked to volunteer to work that Cityfolk Festival.
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« Reply #25 on: December 05, 2006, 02:39:44 PM » |
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Local officials fight to keep BRAC jobs Dayton Business Journal - 5:12 PM EST Monday by Yvonne Teems DBJ Staff Reporter Government leaders are trying to fend off out-of-town efforts to prevent jobs from coming to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure process. U.S. Reps. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, John Boehner, R-West Chester, and Dave Hobson, R-Springfield, sent a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne to voice their concern about efforts in San Antonio, Texas, and Mesa, Ariz., to keep almost 1,700 jobs slated to come to the Dayton area... E-mail dayton@bizjournals.com. Call 222-6900. www.dayton.bizjournals.com
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« Reply #26 on: December 25, 2006, 10:15:18 PM » |
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From the 12/15/06 DDN:Air Force breaks ground on systems engineering centerBy Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Friday, December 15, 2006 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Air Force Institute of Technology officials Thursday broke ground on a facility intended to help the Air Force advance the art of designing complex weapon systems. The 50,000-square-foot building will house classroom and lab space and the Center for Systems Engineering... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/12/15/ddn121506afit.html
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buildingcincinnati
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« Reply #27 on: December 25, 2006, 10:17:20 PM » |
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Both from the 12/18/06 DDN:Area may land slew of talent in BRAC dealBy Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Monday, December 18, 2006 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Some 700 military and 550 civilian positions are heading this way as the Air Force realigns missions under the Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2005, base officials say..... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/12/17/ddn121806brac.html
Area resources prompt scientists to move here
Three among the many who followed jobs transferred under military realignment.By Timothy R. Gaffney
Staff Writer
Monday, December 18, 2006 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — Three scientists who have decided to relocate to the Dayton region to follow their jobs say the scientific resources here and community efforts to ease their move helped make up their minds... Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgaffney@DaytonDailyNews.com.http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2006/12/17/ddn121806bracinside.html
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« Reply #28 on: December 26, 2006, 01:25:26 AM » |
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"In past BRACs, only a small percentage of people have actually moved" when their jobs were relocated, said James Leftwich, the Dayton Development Coalition's vice president for aerospace, defense and technology.
I found this interesting...I wonder if they are referring to all level of jobs (for example, I wouldn't be surprised if a secretary or a position like that chose not to relocate) Nonetheless, it does sound like good news that some of the high level researchers are choosing to relocate.
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UncleRando
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« Reply #29 on: March 06, 2007, 09:24:30 AM » |
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New system could bring jobs to WPAFBMarch 3, 2007 | DAYTON DAILY NEWS DAYTON — The Air Force said Friday it has received clearance from Washington to allow Computer Sciences Corp. to proceed with a $627.8 million contract to provide a logistics information system. The Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson was notified that the General Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, had denied a protest by IBM Corp. which challenged the contract's award last September to rival Computer Sciences Corp., AFMC spokesman Ron Fry said. . http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/business/2007/03/02/ddn030307wpafb.html
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