The two-story building will be located on the western side of the laboratory. It will consolidate the lab's nonproliferation and intelligence-related operations into the same building, and replace the current building that is nearly 40 years old and doesn't sustain digital communication.
The new facility will include conference rooms that will be hooked up with teleconference equipment. It will also house an extensive document library, a graphics laboratory and a digital photo lab and print plant.
The 64,000-square-foot building will house NAI's International Assessments Program, plus other areas of the Laboratory involved in global security, and counterproliferation research and analysis. The total budget for the building is $25 million.
The International Security Research Facility will incorporate offices for 180 workers, along with conference rooms, video teleconference facilities, an extensive document library, a graphics lab, digital photo lab and print plant.
Benicia-based Lathrop Construction Associates Inc. has been awarded the contract to construct the new building during the next 16 to 18 months. Occupancy is expected in late 2004. The San Francisco-based architectural firm of Edward J. Gee & Associates designed the facility.
"International security research is a growing area of the Laboratory's nonproliferation mission," says Wayne Shotts, associate director for the Nonproliferation, Arms Control and International Security (NAI) directorate. "This new facility will allow us to bring together the broad spectrum of Laboratory disciplines, from bioscience and chemistry to nuclear science and engineering, that is vital to the nation's effort to assess and counter threats to international security."
"The laboratory provides a broadly informed, multidisciplinary resource to the intelligence community and police programs,'' says John Illige, also of the assessments program. "This facility will allow us to apply cutting-edge information technology tools to our work.
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