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Lawsuit over BRAC move to Mark Center unlikely
A legal challenge to the move of federal workers to the Mark Center along Interstate 395 appears to be dwindling, making it likely massive traffic jams predicted for the fall will occur.
Tags: Hank Silverberg , Mark Center , Seminary Road
Fairfax supervisors could find out legal opinion on BRAC Tuesday
Prince William County has no plans to sue to stop the move of 6,400 defense workers to Alexandria's Mark Center.
Tags: Hank Silverberg , Mark Center
Va. officials urged to sue over Mark Center move
A new Pentagon inspector general report finds "procedural and technical weaknesses" in the Army's traffic assessment surrounding its plans to move 6,400 Defense employees to a privately owned office complex in northern Virginia. Rep. Jim Moran, whose district includes the site, said the findings provide the underpinnings for local officials to sue the Pentagon to stop the move.
Tags: DoD , Congress , Jim Moran , Gerry Connolly , Army , Mark Center , inspector general , Jared Serbu , DoD Report
Leaked report cites new Mark Center vulnerability
It rises high over Interstate 395 and will soon be home to 6,400 defense workers. But, now a report on the Mark Center's vulnerability that was accidentally posted on the internet by the Army Corps of Engineers is raising new concern.
Tags: Hank Silverberg , Mark Center
Fairfax Co. considers lawsuit to stop BRAC transfer
Tags: Mark Center , Sharon Bulova , Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
Army's BRAC traffic plan flawed
A new report finds the Pentagon used faulty data when it decided to relocate 6,400 Department of Defense workers from Crystal City to Alexandria's Mark Center as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Act.
Tags: Army , Defense , DoD , Mark Center , Jim Moran , inspector general , traffic , newsstand , Suzanne Kubota
Pentagon IG: Faulty data used in BRAC's Mark Center decision
The Pentagon's inspector general says the Army failed to take into account current and projected rush hour traffic when it decided to relocate 6,400 defense workers to Alexandria.
Tags: Mark Center , Colleen Kelleher , Neal Augenstein
Despite BRAC's federal funding, N. Va. will feel traffic pain
Traffic patterns across the region will start changing in the fall when thousands of military workers re-locate as part of the Base Realignment and Closure Plan.
Tags: Hank Silverberg
Anti-bomb plan for Mark Center posted online
Security designs for the new Mark Center have been posted online. In a major breach of security, Defense officials admit a document describing the bomb-proofing security plans for the new Defense building were published on a public website for the Army Corps of Engineers.
Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Mark Center , security , Defense , Army Corps of Engineers
Moran at 'wits end' over looming BRAC disaster
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) sees a perfect storm in the future for federal employees and anyone else trying to commute through his district as a result of BRAC. He tells Federal News Radio he's at his wits' end trying to avert a traffic disaster.
Tags: Federal Drive , management , training , Federal Supervisor Training Act , Jim Moran , traffic , Suzanne Kubota , pay and benefits , pay freeze
