Ground broken for temporary building.United States Transportation Command The unified command with the mission to provide strategic air, land, and sea transportation and common-user port management for the Department of Defense across the range of military operations. Also called USTRANSCOM. (USTRANSCOM USTRANSCOM United States Transportation Command ) and Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC SDDC Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (formerly Military Traffic Management Command) SDDC Single Data Device Correction ) officials broke ground with contractors Oct. 17 tbr a 75,000-square-foot modular facility. The structure will house approximately 500 SDDC workers as the unit transitions, over the next few years, from locations in Alexandria and Newport News, Va., to Scott Air Force Base Scott Air Force Base (IATA: BLV, ICAO: KBLV, FAA LID: BLV) is a base of the United States Air Force in St. Clair County, Illinois near Belleville which are in the St. Louis metropolitan area. , Ill. "SDDC's move to Scott Air Force Base will allow the USTRANSCOM team to better leverage our capabilities," said USTRANSCOM Commander Gen. Norton A. Schwartz General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF, is Commander, United States Transportation Command, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. General Schwartz attended the United States Air Force Academy and graduated in 1973. , "resulting in a much more effective and efficient distribution enterprise." Ground work for this facility, which will be located behind the Scott AFB AFB abbr. acid-fast bacillus AFB Acid-fast bacillus, also 1. Aflatoxin B 2. Aorto-femoral bypass commissary, is scheduled to begin in the first quarter of fiscal year 07. It is slated to be ready for occupancy in July 2007. "We're really looking forward to this move because it is going to enable us to bring in three different entities of SDDC all to one location and allow us to have even closer collaboration with our partners and USTRANSCOM," said SDDC Commanding General Maj. Gen. Kathleen M. Gainey, shortly after the first shovels full of earth were turned. The temporary facility will provide work space for the command as a larger, permanent building, currently in the design phase and due to be complete by 2010, is constructed. This new USTRANSCOM structure will be approximately 180,000 square feet and will house the SDDC headquarters, the Joint Distribution Program Analysis Center and the Joint Fused Operations Center. SDDC expects approximately I, 100 military, federal civilian and contractor positions to relocate to the base. The move is a result of the most recent Base Realignment and Closure Base Realignment and Closure (or BRAC) is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and Congress to close excess military installations and realign Commission's recommendations that became law in November 2005.--Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM Public Affairs USTRANSCOM and SDDC officials broke ground Oct. 17 for a 75,000-square-foot modular facility that will house SDDC workers as they transition from SDDC Headquarters in Alexandria and Ft. Eustis, Va., to Scott AFB, Ill. Pictured are, left to right: Ike Hong, President, Pacific Construction Services; Col. Brad Spacy spac·y or spac·ey adj. spac·i·er, spac·i·est Slang 1. Stupefied or disoriented from or as if from drug use. 2. Eccentric; offbeat. Adj. 1. , commander, 375th Mission Support Group; Gen. Norton Schwartz, Commander, USTRANSCOM; Maj. Gen. Kathleen Gainey, Commander, SDDC; Lt. Col. Jeffrey Ogden, Deputy Commander, Louisville District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and Bob Caleo, vice president, Old Veterans Construction.--Photo by Bob Fehringer, USTRANSCOM Public Affairs [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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