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Enhanced Use Leasing - Fort Detrick Fort Detrick is in the process of planning and implementation of Enhanced Use Lease (EUL) legislation (10 USC 2667) in order to maximize underutilized physical assets, reduce Government operational costs, generate returns on investment and enhance the mission of the installation. Fort Detrick seeks to competitively select a private developer to lease the parcel of land and to develop on this parcel a cogeneration power plant. Fort Detrick believes there is a sizeable opportunity for Fort Detrick and a private sector developer/property manager to work together to receive significant benefits. eul.army.mil /DetrickCogeneration/intro.htm   (549 words)

Cutting Edge; A History Of Fort Detrick All the technology learned at Fort Detrick was used to decontaminate buildings, to test for presence of live organisms, and to ensure debris was free of contamination. Fort Detrick's own monitoring of ground water in Area B from 1982 was a diligent effort for early detection of any problems that might arise. Fort Detrick cooperated immediately with State officials and the Army Environmental Center began an extensive remediation site investigation to determine if the contamination was originating from an old landfill site on Area B. The State promised to conduct its separate investigation of several other potential sources of contamination. www.detrick.army.mil /cutting_edge/index.cfm?chapter=chapter7   (3376 words)

Military Installation Guides 2.0 Fort Detrick was converted in 1943 from a National Guard airfield into a world-renowned biomedical research and development center. Fort Detrick's impact is the result of each of the 25 tenant organizations' involvement in biomedical research and development, medical materiel management and long-haul communications capabilities for the White House, Department of Defense and other governmental agencies. Fort Detrick, with Fifty years of Excellence to its credit, boasts of state-of-the-art facilities, a newly installed expandable phone switch, post-wide fiber optics cable, up-to-date and expandable utilities, and a motivated workforce. benefits.military.com /misc/installations/Base_Content.jsp?id=3070   (753 words)

Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Maryland was one of the thirteen colonies that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, and became the seventh state admitted to the US after ratifying the new Constitution. The following year, in December of 1790, Maryland ceded land selected by President George Washington to the federal government for the creation of Washington, D.C. During the War of 1812, the British military attempted to capture the port of Baltimore, which was protected by Fort McHenry. It was during this bombardment that the Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maryland   (3989 words)

DCMilitary.com Fort Detrick's service to the nation carries on the legacy of the Frederick County patriots who played major roles in the development of the Nation. Fort Detrick was annexed into the city of Frederick in 1983 and partners with the city on many progressive endeavors that benefit everyone in the community. Fort Detrick is recognized as a Community of Excellence, having won the Army Chief of Staff Community of Excellence Award in 1999, and was one of the top five installations in the 2004 competition. www.dcmilitary.com /special_sections/sw/020507_Fort_detrick/ss_152742_31935.shtml   (769 words)

Maryland Newsline - Justice Special Report: Bracing for Base Closings 2005 Today, Fort Detrick is a center for government biomedical research, housing the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease, the National Cancer Institute-Frederick, the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, and more than two dozen other tenant organizations. And the fort itself is scheduled to grow again with the development of a new interagency biodefense campus. The continuing development and expansion of facilities on Fort Detrick has given many members of the community reason to be optimistic about the base's future. www.newsline.umd.edu /justice/specialreports/bases/fortdetrick042905.htm   (797 words)

Fort Detrick, Frederick, Maryland Fort Detrick is the largest employer in Frederick County. Fort Detrick is located in Frederick, Maryland, in the heart of Frederick County, the third fastest growing county in Maryland. Fort Detrick is the center of the biomedical technology growth that has occurred in the county. www.detrick.army.mil /index.cfm   (222 words)

Fort Detrick Takes Cleanup Plan to Public   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Fort Detrick, Md., officials drew more than 100 residents of nearby Frederick to a briefing on the installation's plan for removing buried chemicals from its facilities. Input from the public meeting and other comments received are being incorporated in a Fort Detrick decision document that summarizes all research and recommendations surrounding this action. The objective of the action is to remove all known primary contaminant sources from a location on Ft. Detrick called Area B that are contributing to groundwater contamination, Springer said. aec.army.mil /usaec/publicaffairs/update/fall00/fall0008.htm   (533 words)

Paul Gordon: When will Fort Detrick pay for the impacts it creates? Fort Detrick and the feds have brushed aside any concerns about the health, safety and welfare of Frederick's residents connected with the work that will occur at the fort. Besides schools, Detrick is planning a new entrance near the Nallin Farm on Opossumtown Road close to Frederick Community College where traffic is impacted already by students entering and exiting the campus. It should also be remembered that in the last few years, Fort Detrick has become a site where an enhanced PX was built to attract retired military from a wide area to this sales-tax-free zone. www.gazette.net /stories/053107/fredcol220142_32339.shtml   (725 words)

BBC Broadcasts America’s Bioweapons Culpability But Omits British Ties to the Anthrax Mailings Fort Detrick is the site at the centre of a web of military centres spread across the US and twilight private companies which work with these military sites hand-in-hand as contractors... Colonel David Franz was in charge at Fort Detrick for eleven years - he's had hands-on experience with biological agents and has his own ideas about the kind of person the FBI should be looking for. Such is the FBI's determination to establish if Fort Detrick is at the heart of this that it has turned to genomic analysis of the powder itself...The Inst for Genomic Research was founded by Craig Venter - the man who sped up the decoding of the Human Genome... www.tetrahedron.org /news/bbc_broadcasts.html   (2838 words)

The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Fort Detrick wages crop war on soybean killer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) The battle against soybean rust epitomizes Fort Detrick's change in focus from Cold War-era weapons development for the military to cutting-edge biological research with civilian applications. Reid Frederick, a molecular biologist at the Fort Detrick center, was in Zimbabwe during the infestation. At Fort Detrick, 10 USDA scientists work to combat the disease in a $500,000-a-year program funded by the United States and soybean growers. seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2001792617_soybean16.html   (801 words)

Fort Detrick Neighbors Jittery Over Expansion - washingtonpost.com Supporters say that besides its importance to national security, the expansion at Fort Detrick would bring jobs directly to the base, which is already Frederick County's largest employer, and attract additional biotech companies and others to the area. Referring to the government's efforts to develop biological weapons at Fort Detrick years ago, known as Operation Whitecoat, Korch said in an interview Friday: "That program is dead and gone, a thing of the past. Korch acknowledged that such a terrorist attack on Fort Detrick is "a possibility." But he said the installation has heavy security in place to thwart one. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/26/AR2006022601423.html   (1147 words)

Enhanced Use Leasing - Fort Detrick It is located at the extreme northeastern portion of part of Fort Detrick known as Area A. It is largely undeveloped and covered in grass. Fort Detrick seeks to competitively select a private developer to lease parcels of land to develop a hotel/conference center, office and laboratory under EUL authority. To these ends, Fort Detrick sees this private sector opportunity as compatible with the Fort Detrick’s mission and as an extension of Army’s business objectives. eul.army.mil /DetrickGateways/intro.htm   (642 words)

Research institutes unveil plans for Fort Detrick lab expansion They said building a second Biosafety Level 4 lab at Fort Detrick - where the Army already has one of a handful of such facilities in the country - will increase efficiency because the labs can share security and other support services. The plans at Fort Detrick are only a small part of an unprecedented national building boom in bioterrorism research, set off by the Bush administration's decision to quadruple biodefense funding to nearly $6 billion a year. Fort Detrick is the main repository of the Ames strain of anthrax used in the attacks, though it has been used in at least two dozen other labs. www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/fortdetricklabexpansion.html   (817 words)

Fort Detrick and Rocky Mountain Q&A, NIAID Fact Sheet NIAID is expanding its research programs to spearhead the development of new and improved diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines for diseases caused by naturally occurring infectious agents as well as microbes that may be intentionally released into a civilian population. Having this facility on Fort Detrick enhances NIAID efforts to expand its biodefense research agenda by capitalizing on the already well-established cooperation between NIAID and USAMRIID scientists. The proximity at Fort Detrick to researchers with expertise in infectious diseases related to biodefense and other emerging infections, as well as the nearby USAMRIID facilities, will provide a critical part of the foundation for the research and development program that is NIAID's mandate. www.niaid.nih.gov /factsheets/detrick_qa.htm   (1419 words)

Fort Detrick Fort Detrick is a 1,200 acre Army base housing a complex of biological laboratories, and communication facilities. Originally a research center for the nation's biological weapons program, Fort Detrick is one of the world's most important biomedical research facilities. Fort Detrick is also an important federal communications center, housing numerous vital satellite and fiber optic links, including a major bulk data link directly connecting Fort Detrick to the National Security Agency, White House, and the Pentagon. ludb.clui.org /ex/i/MD3144   (94 words)

USATODAY.com - Source: FBI anthrax probe looks at Fort Detrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — FBI agents combed laboratory suites at Fort Detrick — home to the Army's biological warfare defense program — on Tuesday, and a source said they were again looking for evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks. FBI agents have frequently visited Fort Detrick since the unsolved attacks, amid speculation that the deadly spores or the person who sent them may be connected to Fort Detrick. Much of the speculation about a Fort Detrick connection has centered on Stephen Hatfill, a former government scientist and bioweapons expert who once worked at the infectious disease institute at Fort Detrick. www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2004-07-20-anthrax-probe_x.htm   (390 words)

CNN.com - Fort Detrick worker exposed to anthrax - April 19, 2002 CNN.com - Fort Detrick worker exposed to anthrax - April 19, 2002 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An employee at the U.S. Army biological lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has tested positive for exposure to anthrax, a spokesman said Friday. The deposit was not found in the area where tests are being done on the anthrax-laced letter that was sent to Sen. Patrick Leahy last year, Fort Detrick officials said in a written statement. cnn.com /2002/US/04/19/fort.detrick.anthrax/index.html   (249 words)

DefenseLink News Article: Future Medical Shelter Prototype Set Up at Fort Detrick FORT DETRICK, Md., June 16, 2004 – A telemedicine test bed here welcomed a new, green neighbor May 25 when a boxy prototype of the Army's Future Medical Shelter System arrived from Tennessee. During the morning's demo at Detrick, engineers involved with the shelter strolled around the shelter prototype like auto show attendees, asking its developers, Duane Bias, Lee Bzorgi and Terry Brown, about the hydraulic system, the air-handling system and the equipment. He takes his tents seriously, and even drove from Detrick to Pennsylvania to sleep in his tents during Hurricane Isabel to make sure they weathered the storm. www.defenselink.mil /news/newsarticle.aspx?id=26254   (1272 words)

Protesters Decry Fort Detrick Expansion Protesters drumming on orange plastic buckets and wearing white, biohazard-style coveralls rumbled down the usually quiet Sunday streets of downtown Frederick, warning that plans to create a biodefense research campus at Fort Detrick could pose a threat to residents' health. Fort Detrick, the city's largest employer, has 750 scientists, lab technicians and other workers from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. Lew Cullen, a Frederick resident who took his family to a park next to the rally, said that though he was not opposed to Fort Detrick, he worried about the potential of an accident. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/05/AR2005060501286_pf.html   (800 words)

Fort Detrick office makes contact The Fort Detrick Business Development Office, which opened in March, is itself an example of just what the office is trying to accomplish. The office’s goal is to link businesses with the various entities on the Fort Detrick campus, resulting in contracts for vendors and needed goods and services for the fort. He decided to join the Fort Detrick office because it was ‘‘such a unique thing,” he said. www.gazette.net /stories/111005/busiflo221116_31914.shtml   (836 words)

Anthrax Spores Escape a Lab at Fort Detrick Spores of the anthrax bacterium have been discovered in two areas of an Army research building at Fort Detrick, Md., and an Army scientist involved in research there has tested positive for exposure to the potentially deadly microbes, the Army said last night. The scientist's exposure and the spread of the spores in the building appeared to be accidental and were not being treated as evidence of a crime or of unauthorized work in the high-security labs, according to the Army. He said he did not know whether the strain under study was the so-called Ames strain used in last fall's attacks, which killed five people and sickened more than a dozen others. www.ph.ucla.edu /epi/bioter/anthraxsporesescapeclab.html   (385 words)

Anthrax Investigation Closes Fort Detrick Labs FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - FBI agents combed laboratory suites at Fort Detrick - home to the Army's biological warfare defense program - on Tuesday, and a source said they were again looking for evidence in the 2001 anthrax attacks. Much of the speculation about a Fort Detrick connection has centered on Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, a former government scientist and bioweapons expert who once worked at the infectious disease institute at Fort Detrick. Agents have been revisiting sites and leads in the investigation, code-named "Amerithrax." In May, agents interviewed another former Fort Detrick researcher and his co-workers about his whereabouts when the letters were mailed, he and his lawyer said. www.wtop.com /?sid=230926&nid=25   (788 words)

Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Detrick represents a repository of many organisms, and they would send it out to various other labs. The scientist also claimed that he understood DNA analysis being performed by a private lab in Rockville, Md., had already determined that the source of the anthrax in the letter sent to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy was from Detrick. However, the private lab has told journalists that it will be another two weeks to a month before they publicly reveal their results. dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index_np.html?pn=2   (806 words)

Noted Bioweapons Foe: Plans for Fort Detrick Are Illegal The Army maintains that its research at Fort Detrick has been, and will continue to be, solely defensive in nature. Specifically, Boyle wrote that the work at Fort Detrick "will include acquiring, growing, modifying, storing, packaging and dispersing classical, emerging and genetically engineered pathogens." Such activities, along with expected research on the pathogens' weaponized properties, "are unmistakable hallmarks of an offensive weapons program," Boyle wrote. USAMRIID Commander Col. George Korch Jr., said in 2004 that the government might genetically engineer organisms at Fort Detrick to make them deadlier to ensure that U.S. defenses would be effective against the most dangerous pathogens. www.wtopnews.com /?nid=25&sid=1047849   (1056 words)

Fort Detrick's anthrax mystery - Salon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) Whoever it was seemed to display eerie foreknowledge of the biological attacks, since the letter was sent to the FBI well before any anthrax terror attacks were known to the public. And there is also the fact that Assaad used to work at the U.S. Army's Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), in Fort Detrick, Md., a biowarfare lab many critics believe might have been the source of the stolen anthrax. There is no proof that former colleagues of Assaad at the Fort Detrick facility were behind the attempt to frame him or the anthrax mailings. dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2002/01/26/assaad/index_np.html   (737 words)

Fort Detrick Poses a Threat to Frederick, Md.--and to Humanity | BaltimoreChronicle.com Fort Detrick Poses a Threat to Frederick, Md.--and to Humanity A huge expansion of bioweapons research at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, is being planned as part of President Bush's $8 billion annual budget for bioweapons research (www.usamriid.army.mil/eis). Since Fort Detrick's stated mission is to anticipate biological threats, Fort Detrick plans to genetically modify diseases on which to test vaccines. baltimorechronicle.com /2006/092806KISSIN-OCHS.shtml   (1303 words)

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