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Wright-Patt’s BRAC job transfers to increase next year

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By John Nolan, Staff Writer Updated 5:19 PM Friday, October 30, 2009

KETTERING — Transfer of people to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as part of a Washington-ordered relocation of research programs from bases in other states gets started in earnest in the summer of 2010, an official coordinating the movements said Friday, Oct. 30.

The 77th Aeronautical Systems Group, a unit that acquires Air Force equipment including uniforms and chemical gear, is to move in summer 2010 to Wright-Patterson from Brooks City-Base in San Antonio, Texas, said Jacque Fisher, a Wright-Patterson official who is preparing for the programs headed there under the nation’s base realignment and closure (BRAC) program.

In January 2011, students of the Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio will start taking classes in temporary trailers at Wright-Patterson or in the Kettering Business Park, to keep the mission going as the school formally locates to Wright-Patterson later in 2011, Fisher said.

All of the program relocations to Wright-Patt, authorized by the nation’s 2005 BRAC decisions, are to be done by Sept. 15, 2011, bringing the base a net gain of about 1,100 jobs including aerospace medicine and sensors research.

Community and business leaders attended a Dayton Development Coalition session Friday for updates on various efforts to build a base of aerospace, sensor and unmanned aircraft technology and develop a work force in the Dayton region to support work being done by the Air Force, companies and the region’s universities.

In September, Gov. Ted Strickland established an economic development precedent by designating the Dayton region as a hub of aerospace innovation and opportunity, the first such hub in the state. Ohio is considering a $250,000 grant for the Dayton region to fund a director and planning for the hub organization that will be directed by regional partners, said Kevin Carver, the Ohio Department of Development’s Dayton regional director.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2242 or jnolan@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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