$875M computer center coming to Fort Meade

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http://www.capitalgazette.com/maryland_gazette/hot/m-computer-center-coming-to-fort-meade/article_587c5f9d-e3c7-56e9-a235-8182cd901360.html?mode=jqm

$875M computer center coming to Fort Meade
Posted Yesterday | By SARA BLUMBERG

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With a completion date set for 2015, the National Security Agency is close to starting construction on a new High Performance Computing Center, set to be built on the former golf course at Fort Meade.

With a price tag of nearly $875 million, the center will be the most expensive construction project yet on the Odenton installation. And the money will come. The project is being funded through the National Defense Authorization Act, which means it won’t be impacted by automatic budget cuts affecting some other operations at Fort Meade.

More than half of the allotted money will go into the building itself, ensuring that the information stored there will remain secure, according to details of the project in the Military Construction Project Data report for fiscal 2012. Just the perimeter controls — fences, gates and other exterior security measures — will cost around $21.7 million. Other security features will include:
* Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection systems.
* Intrusion detection systems.
* Video surveillance.
* Card access control.
* A visitor control center.
* A cargo vehicle inspection facility.

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Susserman predicted the center would be used for data mining and sorting through large amounts of information with algorithms in search of anything interesting or suspicious.