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Originally Posted by Arch City

Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 10:17am CDT
Scott Air Force Base to open $130M U.S. Transportation Command facility
ST. LOUIS BUSINESS JOURNAL

Gen. Duncan McNabb, commander of U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, will preside at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to officially open a new $130 million facility that streamlines several operations and business functions.

The project will result in the eventual relocation of about 1,100 personnel to Scott from Fort Belvoir, Va., as called for by the Base Closure and Realignment Commission.

The new building houses USTRANSCOM’s new Fusion Center, the Army’s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command, and the Joint Intelligence Operations Center for Transportation.

The Transportation Command facility is a three-story, 180,000-square-foot structure, and the intelligence operations center is a two-story, 29,000-square-foot facility. The general contractor is River City Construction of Benton, Ill.

USTRANSCOM provides air, land and sea transportation, terminal management and aerial refueling to support the global and deployment and employment of U.S. military forces.

Ha! That's funny. I lived on Fort Belvoir, Va. for a few weeks when my family just moved to D.C. . It's a beautiful base. They'll fill up the job loss in no time.