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FBI Director Christopher Wray visits Huntsville for celebration at $1.3 billion campus
Posted Jun 29, 2021
$1.3B →13?
FBI Director Christopher Wray visited Huntsville on Tuesday in a low-key stop to help celebrate construction of a key part of the bureau’s sprawling campus at Redstone Arsenal.
Wray lifted a shovel of dirt along with Alabama Sens. Richard Shelby and Tommy Tuberville to mark the formal groundbreaking of the FBI’s Innovation Center.
Shelby tweeted a photo of the ceremonial event on Tuesday afternoon.
“Honored to participate in today’s groundbreaking of the new FBI Innovation Center at Redstone Arsenal,” Shelby’s post on Twitter said. “This center will be a great asset focused oncyber threat intelligence and analytics.I look forward to the many jobs that will be created and the future of the FBI in Alabama.”
The FBI is building a sprawling, college-like campus on Redstone Arsenal that could eventually create as many as 5,000 jobs. In 2019, the FBI said more than 4,000 jobs would be shifted to Redstone Arsenal.
The innovation center is considered to be a key part of that campus, which will top $1 billion in investment by its completion. Madison County Commission Chair Dale Strong, speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for restaurants at Town Madison on Tuesday, put the FBI’s investment at $1.3 billion.
Clark Construction Group and HKS, the design-build team on the innovation center project, described the facility in a press release Tuesday as the “flagship building” of the FBI’s new Science and Technology District at Redstone Arsenal.
“The 250,000-square-foot Innovation Center will be a first-of-its-kind facility dedicated to cyber threat intelligence, data analytics, and training to combat emerging threats,” the press release said.
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https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/fbi-director-christopher-wray-visits-huntsville-for-celebration-at-13-billion-campus.html
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The innovation center will be three stories and, in addition to collaborative and office space, will include a kinetic cyber range and a virtual reality classroom for agents to test and apply skills in real-world settings.
“The Clark-HKS team is excited to be delivering such an important facility that will enhance the intelligence community’s capabilities to keep our country safe,” Keith Couch, a senior vice president overseeing the design and construction efforts on the project, said in the press release. “We look forward to not only supporting our national security efforts, but also to contributing a project that is so important to the local Huntsville community.”
“Just eight months after commencing design, we’re excited to see this project break ground,” Jim Whitaker, principal-in-charge leading the design team,” said in the press release. “I’m very proud of the immense collaboration of Clark, the FBI, and our design team to quickly and safely advance the design of this state-of-the-art facility in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The innovation center is expected to be completed in 2023.
In November 2020, the FBI said that nine buildings were under construction at Redstone Arsenal as part of growth that could stretch for decades, according to David Schlendorf, the FBI’s associate executive assistant director. In his presentation as part of the annual Redstone Update, Schlendorf repeatedly thanked Shelby for his efforts to bring the FBI to north Alabama.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/06/fbi-director-christopher-wray-visits-huntsville-for-celebration-at-13-billion-campus.html