Military Exceeds BRAC Cost Projections in Relocating Geospatial Agency

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By Government Executive | 06 July 2012 | 168

The move to centralize components of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency at one site in Fort Belvoir, Va., has become the latest example of projects under the base closure and realignment process that have exceeded cost projections. Consolidating scattered offices to enhance the satellite intelligence agency’s personnel safety cost $2.5 billion rather than the $1.4 billion projected by the 2005 BRAC report, according to a Government Accountability Office analysis that attributed the overrun to miscommunication about data storage space needs. Read More