I found some good information on BRAC, the Base Realignment, involving Ft. Meade. This was taken from the global security website:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-meade.htm
<<BRAC 2005
In its 2005 BRAC Recommendations, DoD recommended that the Joint Network Management System Program Office move from Ft. Monmouth, which it recommended for closure, to Fort Meade, MD. Assuming no economic recovery, this recommendation could result in a maximum potential increase of 9,834 jobs (5,042 direct and 4,792 indirect jobs) over the 2006 – 2011 periods in the Baltimore-Towson, MD Metropolitan Division (0.6 percent). When moving from Fort Monmouth to Fort Meade, DoD estimated that the following local area capabilities would improve: Cost of Living and Medical Health. The following attributes would decline: Education and Safety.
In another Recommendation, DoD recommended to close 5600 Columbia Pike and Skyline Place (Skyline VII), leased installations in Falls Church, VA, and 1010 Gause Boulevard, a leased installation in Slidell, LA. These closures would resulte in the relocation of all components of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to Fort Meade, MD. It would also close the Logicon Building, a leased installation in Arlington, Virginia. Relocate the Joint Task Force-Global Network Operation (JTF-GNO) to Fort Meade, MD. DoD would also realign Skyline IV and Skyline V, leased installations in Falls Church, VA, and GSA Franconia Warehouse Depot, a leased installation in Springfield, VA, by relocating all components of DISA to Fort Meade, MD; realign Arlington Service Center, VA, by relocating all components of DISA and the JTF-GNO to Fort Meade; realign Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida by relocating the Deployable Joint Command and Control (DJC2) Program Office of the Naval Surface Warfare Center to Fort Meade, MD. DoD would also realign Rosslyn Plaza North, a leased location in Arlington, VA, by relocating the Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Program Office to Fort Meade.
This recommendation would consolidate headquarters components of DISA and the JTF-GNO, a related organization with a dual-hatted command and shared facilities, at Fort Meade. This recommendation would also realign the scattered Combatant Commander Development and Acquisition activities, of which certain DISA components were a part, into a single activity at Fort Meade. These DISA components included Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion (GIG-BE), Global Command and Control System (GCCS), Network Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), and Teleport Program Offices. This realignment would provide for the delivery of integrated, interoperable C4ISR systems to the warfighters with increased efficiency at less cost. This recommendation would meet several important Department of Defense objectives with regard to future use of leased space, rationalizing the presence of DoD Activities within the National Capital Region (NCR), consolidation of Headquarters operations at single locations, an enhanced security for DoD Activities. The relocation of a DOD Agency headquarters to a military installation that would be outside of the NCR would provide dispersion of DoD Activities away from a dense concentration within the NCR. This, plus the immediate benefit of enhanced Force Protection afforded by a location within a military installation fence-line, would provide immediate compliance with Force Protection Standards. DISA’s current leased locations were not compliant with current Force Protection Standards. This action would provide a consolidation for DISA’s headquarters reducing the number of buildings from eight to two. >>
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