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SUBJECT:
Status of STAR Gate Project
(S)
1.
(U)
PURPOSE :
To provide the Honorable Senator John Glenn
with background information on how the STAR Gate project would
benefit by its transfer to the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence
Center
(AFMIC)
facility at Fort Detrick,
MD.
2.
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POINTS OF MAJOR INTEREST :
a.
(S/NF/SG/LIMDIS)
The transfer to AFMIC would benefit
Project STAR GATE by allowing its analysts to be collocated with
AFMIC scientists so that the project can receive administrative
support and scientific oversight.
Specifically it would provide
for:
(1)
The review of scientific methods used by the STAR
GATE project by the AFMIC scientific staff.
(2)
The availability of AFMIC support staff for
personnel,
finance,
programming,
and publication issues.
(3)
The availability of human use review capability by a
Reserve officer attorney assigned as
a mobilization augmentee.
This attorney will be able to provide an annual assessment of the
compliance of STAR GATE project evaluations with relevant laws,
executive orders,
regulations and procedures regarding human use
aspects of the project.
(4)
The sharing of common interests
in the broad aspects
of life sciences.
This synergism could result in new avenues of
analysis on foreign neuroscience research,
enhanced learning
performance,
pattern recognition and decision making,
and unusual
biophysical effects.
(5)
More secure working environment than the current
STAR GATE facility can provide to store classified materials.
REPRODUCTION REQUIRES
APPROVAL OF ORIGINATOR
OR HIGHER DOD AUTHORITY
FURTHER DISSEMINATION
ONLY AS DIRECTED BY PAG
OR HIGHER DOD AUTHORITY
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Improved access to intelligence community data bases
and the in-house Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA)
electronic
mail system.
b.
(S/NF/ SG/LIMDIS) A staff study,
completed in December
92,
recommended STAR GATE be transferred to AFMIC; however,
the AFMIC
building is oversubscribed and could not accommodate STAR GATE
personnel.
A secondary facility was identified at Fort Detrick,
but was determined to be unsuitable.
In the interim we are
continuing to look at other facilities and options since the
current facilities at Fof Meade,
MD, must be vacated by the Fall
of 1993.
3.
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CONCLUSIONS ;
(S/NF/SG/LIMDIS)
The transfer STAR GATE
project to AFMIC would allow this unique project to establish a
more firm scientific base and would enhance its capability to
perform analysis of foreign programs utilizing anomalous
phenomena
.
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THE ARMED FORCES MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER
(AFMIC)
WORK AREA/BUILDING OPTION
PROJECT:
This
paper
addresses
enlargement
of
the Armed
Forces
Medical Intelligence Center
(AFMIC)
building.
Funding
($4.6M)
for
15 , 000 square feet of additional space and associated equipment are
required to accommodate the recent 70 percent growth in personnel
and an expanded mission.
BACKGROUND:
AFMIC
is
a field production activity of the Defense
Intelligence
Agency
responsible
for
assessing
the
foreign
biological
warfare
threat ,
chemical
warfare
medical
defense,
medical biotechnology,
and foreign military medical capabilities.
AFMIC
is a one-of-a-kind resource within DoD for several missions
of growing importance.
These include medical intelligence support
to
US
military
operations
worldwide,
assessing
foreign
environmental threats to US forces,
support to biological warfare
treaty monitoring,
and technical input to biological warfare non-
proliferation efforts.
HISTORY:
AFMIC
has
been
housed
at
Fort
Detrick,
Frederick,
Maryland in its two story, 25,000 square feet building since August
1986.
The building was designed for 54 people but now accommodates
93.
Personnel growth has resulted from consolidations of defense
intelligence
functions
and
the
transfer
of
analytical
assets
devoted to foreign biological warfare and biotechnology analysis.
CURRENT
SITUATION:
Because
of
the
overcrowding,
analyst
workstations have been located in the library, the computer center,
and
the
publication
office.
The
working
environment
is
further
degraded because the air conditioning system was not designed to
handle the additional heat
load.
In FY94 and beyond,
more space
will
be
needed
for
additional
communications
and
information
processing hardware and
a photointerpretation suite.
Additional
transfers
of
10-20 personnel will occur to support assessment
of
worldwide
epidemiologic
and
environmental
threats
as
well
as
management of the foreign human factors program. AFMIC
is seeking
temporary office space elsewhere on Fort Detrick. This option does
not
look promising
because
the
available
facilities
do
not meet
security and communications connectivity requirements.
IMPACT IF NOT APPROVED:
Unless the AFMIC building is enlarged, the
intended efficiencies
from consolidation
of defense
intelligence
medical,
biological
warfare,
and
human
factors
related
assets
cannot be achieved at this
facility.
The usual US Army cycle for
capital construction is not an acceptable alternative because the
additional
floor
space would not be
available
for
to
years.
Moreover,
it
is
not
feasible
to
locate
analysts
elsewhere.
That
would preclude the benefits gained from AFMIC' s close proximity to
the US Army Medical Research and Development Command which is also
located at Fort Detrick.
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ARMED forces medical intelligence center
(AFMIC)
BUILDING EXPANSION PLAN
PRELIMINARY COST ESTIMATE
Primary Facility Costs:
( 000 )
15,000
SF Extension. ... ,$170/SF
-.-$ 2,555
Security System
Communications and ADP Installation
200
Primary Costs
S2 .81S
Supporting Facilities Costs
15% of Primary Costs
422
Retrofitting existing building
Utilities
Site Improvements,
Demolition
Subtotal of Facility Costs
3.237
Contingency Costs
10%
of Facility Costs
324
Subtotal...,
3.561
Supervisory Inspection and OVRD..,6% of Subtotal
214
Total Construction
(MILCON)
Costs
3.775
Furnishings and Equipment (0&M)
Costs
Total Estimated Coats,
800
$4,575
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