[Utah has the nation's largest concentration of native-born US citizens with good skills in non-English world languages. A consequence of the LDS church emphasis on teens spending a year or so as a missionary in a foreign land. I'm thinking that may have played a role in the decision to locate the new facility just outside of Salt Lake City.]
Feds taking bids for Utah data center Associated Press Jan 26, 2010 1:01 PM (ET) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100126/D9DFIROG0.html SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The federal government is soliciting construction bids for an intelligence-gathering center in Utah. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released details of the super-secret electronic data center on a government Web site and set a Feb. 18 deadline for bids from a general contractor. The so-called Utah Data Center will be self-contained with its own water supply, sewer system and backup power system and will have special "anti-terrorism" defenses. The 1 million-square-foot building will be protected by security rings on a 200-acre parcel at a Utah National Guard camp about 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. The Corps of Engineers is supervising construction for the National Security Agency, which has refused to disclose the full purpose or function of the $1.7 billion center. ================================================= George Antunes Voice (713) 743-3923 Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927 Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3011 *********************************** * POST TO [email protected] * *********************************** Medianews mailing list [email protected] http://lists.etskywarn.net/mailman/listinfo/medianews
