Updated at 1:30 p.m., Thursday, April 12, 2007
Local builder wins $176M contract for security center
Advertiser Staff
Shaw-Dick Pacific LLC in Honolulu has received a $176 million contract to build a new Hawaii Regional Security Operations Center in Wahiawa.An additional $144 million in funding is expected upon the passage of 2008 Military Construction Appropriation Bill making the total amount $320 million.
Construction is expected to begin this year on the center adjacent to Whitmore Village that will replace an aging underground facility in Kunia, which employs 2,100 people.
The National Security Agency's Kunia Regional Security Operations Center will be moved out of a World War II-era aircraft assembly plant to a 350,000-square-foot, three-story building at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station. Work is expected to be completed by June 2010.
The new military intelligence-gathering center is expected to add 700 civilian and military positions, according to the Navy.
