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Austin.

Really?

Maybe on the positive side, it may dilute the liberals some there?

Lots of technology based company's here. But in reality it might have been 6th street and all the bbq around the area.

I wonder how impressed the Army brass was with the roosterheads that come out when the sun goes down?

They must have been REALLY impressed with the Saltlick.

Good weather there most of the year, humidity much lower than here!

It's a liberal mecca.

No way! Liberals in Texass! That just can't be!

About 500 men and lead by a General.

Army Chooses Austin as Site for Futures Command Headquarters - defense.gov

Excerpt:

The criteria for selection included:

-- Proximity to science, technology, engineering and math workers and industries;

-- Proximity to private-sector innovation;

-- Academic STEM and research and development investment;

-- Quality of life;

-- Availability of cost and time assessment of civic support;

-- Mature entrepreneurial incubator hubs for access to talent, ideas and collaboration;

-- Space and access to top-tier university science and engineering departments for collaboration on experiments, prototype concepts and systems;

-- Expandability of work space for other services and companies to join the effort;

-- Density of industry and academic talent; and

-- Cost of doing business to enable both new startups and to draw established firms.

Austin is the ideal place to host the new "queer for your gear" Army.

Lol. Queers in the rear with the gear.

sounds like the dumbest place to be IMHO

Wonder if that little fort several miles uo the road might have had a hand in that decision? Hmmmm?



Jim

Ft Hood could have for sure, but Austin is a hostile environment. Put HQ at Hood. Easy enough.

That what I was wondering.

Why they didn't just do that?

Me thinks there's political factors in play we don't know.

Futures Command?

What is that exactly?

Highly Technical stuff, I reckon.

You know.. Like stuff the Russians did to the DNC.

And what the CIA does in about every election we may even hold a small interest in.

Sounds likely. Maybe even the cyborg Skynet division.

Yeah, the US never tries to influence foreign elections......give or take.

Seems to be something along the line of new system technology and acquisitions. There's a reason to not have it on a bigger base if you're going to be dealing a bunch with the civilian sector.


And a snippet below. Again it seems to be an acquisitions type thing, COTR's etc. But that's just from a quick read or two.


"As part of Futures Command, the Army will create “cross-functional” teams focused on specific things the service wants to improve. Each team will include about 25 people, and be based in an area typically associated with the skill involved. For instance, the team focused on the Army’s next-generation combat vehicle will call the automotive hub of Detroit home, and the team focusing on making individual soldiers more deadly will be based at Fort Benning, Ga., where the Army has a few schools focused on ground combat"

Fort Hood is north and Ft. Sam Houston is south, Ft. Bliss is west and Red River Army Depot is east. That pretty much puts it in the middle. I think the local Austin airport is joint use with the Texas Air Guard and there used to be an active Air Force base in Austin. It sounds like a good location to me.

kwg

The present airport location in Austin is the old Bergstrom AFB location.