Those squadrons analyze sensitive satellite imagery, monitor foreign space launches and perform computer network exploitation.
The renovated space will allow the work of more than 250 intelligence analysts and administrative personnel — 124 of whom are full-time — to be done permanently in Springfield by early 2015. Without a secure facility, local guardsmen have been working in a space at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that’s described by the Guard as overcrowded.
A 5,000-square-foot section of the warehouse is under renovation now at a cost of $750,000 to bring the first 57 analysts to Springfield this year.
The $7.2 million in the president’s proposed $3.77 trillion budget will allow the Guard to renovate an additional 20,000 square feet of warehouse space.
A contract is expected to be awarded for construction in November. Schnulo is unsure when work will begin.
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