Press Release

U.S. Breaks Ground for New Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility

Charlottesville, VA - August 12, 2008

Leaders from the U.S. Intelligence Community, U.S. Congress, and U.S. Army intelligence hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility (JUIAF) at Rivanna Station, Virginia. Ceremony speakers included DIA Director, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples and U. S. Representative Virgil Goode (R-VA, 5th District).

Under Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 Commission Recommendation 167, the Defense Intelligence Agency will initially relocate approximately 800 people to Rivanna Station, which is currently home to the U.S. Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC).

Archer Western Contractors of Chicago, Ill., will design and construct the facility, which will comprise approximately 170,000 gross square feet, along with parking for 625 vehicles. The project also includes a new access control point and visitor’s control center fully compliant with current antiterrorism and force protection standards.

On April 1, 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, awarded the $61 million contract. Archer Western has two years from the Corps’ notification to design and construct the JUIAF.

As directed by the BRAC Commission, DIA will relocate intelligence analysis functions that are similar to those performed by NGIC, DoD’s primary producer of ground forces intelligence. A component organization of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), NGIC produces and disseminates all-source integrated intelligence on foreign ground forces and related military technologies to ensure that U.S. forces have a decisive edge in current and future military operations.

DIA intelligence analysis functions, along with necessary support functions such as information technology, security, and logistics, are scheduled to relocate in 2010 and 2011. All BRAC 2005 implementation actions must be completed by September 15, 2011.

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The Defense Intelligence Agency is the nation’s premier all-source military intelligence organization. It provides the nation’s most authoritative assessments of foreign military intentions and capabilities. The agency’s five core competencies -- human intelligence, counterintelligence, all-source analysis, technical intelligence and intelligence dissemination -- enable military operations while also informing policy-makers at the defense and national levels. DIA’s mission is unique. No other agency matches its military expertise across such a range of intelligence disciplines.

Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility Fact Sheet:

• Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is the statutory process the U.S. Department of Defense uses to reorganize its installation infrastructure to more efficiently and effectively support our forces, increase operational readiness, and facilitate new ways of doing business. BRAC 2005 is the latest round in that process and implementation actions under it must be completed by Sept. 15, 2011.
• DoD uses BRAC to achieve several goals: eliminate excess infrastructure, reshape our military, pursue jointness, optimize military readiness, and realize significant savings in support of transforming itself.
• Under BRAC 2005 Commission Recommendation 167, which became federal statute on Nov. 9, 2005, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) will relocate approximately 800 people to Rivanna Station, Va., the current home of the U.S. Army’s National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). Rivanna Station is a sub-installation of Fort Belvoir, Va.
• As directed by the BRAC Commission, DIA will relocate intelligence analysis functions that are similar to those performed by NGIC, DoD’s primary producer of ground forces intelligence.
• DIA intelligence analysis functions, along with necessary support functions such as information technology, security, and logistics, comprise a total projected joint workforce of 1,000 (approximately 200 from NGIC). These people will move into the new facility in 2010 and 2011.
• The workforce will comprise a mixture of military, civilian, and defense contractor positions, the majority of whom will be directly involved in intelligence analysis.
• On April 1, 2008, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, awarded a contract to Archer Western Contractors of Chicago, Ill., to design and construct a new facility, the Joint-Use Intelligence Analysis Facility (JUIAF) on the grounds of Rivanna Station, Virginia.
• This design-build contract is worth $61 million, and Archer Western has two years from the Corps’ notification to design and construct the JUIAF. The JUIAF will comprise approximately 170,000 gross square feet, along with parking for 625 vehicles. The project will also construct a new access control point and visitor’s control center fully compliant with current antiterrorism and force protection standards. All funding will come from the Defense Base Closure Account 2005.
• As with all other federal projects, the Corps of Engineers as the military construction agent and US Army Installation Management Command as the installation host worked diligently to ensure rigorous adherence to the National Environmental Policy Act.
• The primary benefit of this BRAC action to DoD is the expected improved military intelligence derived from information sharing and joint intelligence analysis afforded by collocating the similar functions of two of the major DoD intelligence organizations.
• The recommendation satisfies several other BRAC and DoD objectives: reduction of DoD concentration in the National Capital Region; improvement in anti-terrorism and force protection posture, and reduction in annual operating costs for both DIA and NGIC.
• DoD also anticipates economic benefit to the local area. In addition to the local stimulus of construction, DoD anticipates approximately 1,500 jobs, both direct and indirect, will be created in the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area as a result of this action.
• As a Department of Defense combat support agency, DIA provides timely, objective, and cogent military intelligence to war fighters, defense planners, and defense and national security policymakers.
• A component organization of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, NGIC produces and disseminates all-source integrated intelligence on foreign ground forces and related military technologies to ensure that U.S. forces have a decisive edge in current and future military operations.

DIA is the nation’s premier all-source military intelligence organization.

It provides the nation’s most authoritative assessments of foreign military intentions and capabilities. The agency’s four core competencies -- human intelligence, all-source analysis, counterintelligence and technical intelligence -- enable military operations while also informing policy-makers at the defense and national levels.

DIA’s mission is unique and no other agency matches its military expertise across such a broad range of intelligence disciplines.