NCI-Frederick Leases Office Building To Move Some Programs Off Army Base

From The Cancer Letter, Feb. 26, 2010:

NCI-Frederick, the federally-funded research and development center for cancer and HIV research located at the Fort Detrick Army base in Frederick, Md., plans to move part of its operations off the base and into an office park at the end of 2011.

SAIC-Frederick Inc., a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corp., the major contractor at NCI-Frederick, has signed a lease on a newly constructed 330,000-square-foot building shell. The government will spend $130 million to outfit the interior for offices and laboratories. The operating budget for the facility will be about $12 million a year.

Craig Reynolds, director of NCI-Frederick, said the move will create the NCI-Frederick Advanced Technology Partnership Initiative, providing space for researchers working at Frederick to form partnerships with private firms to test advanced technologies and conduct translational research.

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