Facilities/Construction
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Seventy percent of the Defense Information System Agency\'s workers are making the move to Ft. Meade, Md. DISA, however, is keeping the pipeline of potential new hires stocked and taking steps to improve the hiring process. Vendors also have not seen a large exit of employees, but could later this fall.
May 12, 2011 -
The Washington area, with the nation\'s second worst traffic, is getting more cars and more federal workers. The BRAC changes will have an impact on locals and on you when you visit for fun or business. But Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wonders if it\'s as bad as most people say.
May 12, 2011 -
Luana Kiandoli looks back at her 30-year career with Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
May 12, 2011 -
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has formally asked the Department of Defense to delay the full implementation of relocating 6,400 military personal to the new Mark Center in Alexandria.
May 11, 2011 -
For more than a hundred years, Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been the premier facility to treat war wounded who\'ve lost limbs. But when it shuts down, the new Walter Reed in Bethesda will assume that responsibility.
May 11, 2011 -
For military bases in the national capital region, forget the \"closure\" part of Base Realignment and Closure. The 2005 BRAC round means huge growth at bases around Washington, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and creature comforts for the growing workforce.
May 11, 2011 -
Bert Rice, director of transformation at Ft. Meade, who says the construction is nearly complete. Now, as he tells Federal News Radio, it\'s time to focus on the \"transportation challenge.\"
May 11, 2011 -
In the latest installment of BRAC Impact: A Federal News Radio and WTOP In-Depth Series, Jack Penkoske discusses about the telework option to help with the transportation challenges brought on by BRAC.
May 11, 2011 -
For military bases in the national capital region, forget the \"closure\" part of Base Realignment and Closure. The 2005 BRAC round means huge growth at bases around Washington, and along with it, a need for new infrastructure and creature comforts for the growing workforce.
May 10, 2011 -
Adam Tuss from our sister station WTOP explains which areas to look out for in terms of increased traffic congestion.
May 10, 2011 -
Most of these employees are coming from Ft. Monmouth, a base in New Jersey that is closing under BRAC.
May 10, 2011 -
The health care of wounded warriors, military members and their families in the area is about to change forever, and the change is historic. And, after 102 years, Walter Reed Medical Center will close.
May 10, 2011 -
In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, \"By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?\"
May 10, 2011 -
Traffic in the Route 355 corridor around NIH is only expected to get worse after the transition of employees from Walter Reed to the National Naval Medical Center.
May 10, 2011 -
Moving into a new building has allowed DISA to revamp its technology infrastructure, including consolidating circuits, servers and paper records. The Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical is building a new network to carry health data and applications for three services to share. Both organizations say without BRAC, these changes would have taken longer to happen.
May 10, 2011