Defense Jobs in N.VA at risk

[MountainLaurel]

It'll be interesting to watch how this one plays out, especially as the prospect of having to move to WV hits DoD workers and all those politicians in NoVA getting defense contractor blood money.

:popcorn:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901087.html

The Defense Department will have to move as many as 50,000 employees out of Northern Virginia office buildings if it strictly enforces new security regulations, and local lawmakers say Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld could announce some of those relocations this week.

Rumsfeld is to release a list of planned military base closings and realignments by Friday. Although Pentagon officials have declined to provide details, Rumsfeld said last week that the department wants to move workers from leased office space to buildings it owns to cut long-term costs.

The department would have to begin moving those jobs anyway because of anti-terrorism regulations it adopted two years ago, which require, among other things, that buildings not on military bases be set back at least 82 feet from traffic to protect against truck bombs. . . .

The Pentagon rents about 8 million square feet of space in 140 Northern Virginia buildings -- and almost none of them can meet the new requirement, according to analysts and lawmakers.