RELATED: Brown urges Pentagon not to move key Wright-Patt program
The Pentagon had planned to move the office, which had been at Wright-Patterson since 1987, on Oct. 1 last year, archives show.
“Keeping it at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base increases the Base’s importance as a center for commercializing defense-related technology and strengthens the science, technology, and acquisition missions of the Base,” Michael Gessel, Dayton Development Coalition vice president of federal programs.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, sponsored a provision in the National Defense Authorization Act to keep the jobs at Wright-Patt.
Brown and three of his congressional colleagues had sent a letter last August to Secretary of Defense James Mattis warning the move could lead to “disorganized and haphazard development” of future programs and put at risk dozens of active projects.
Charlie Ward, chief of the AFRL manufacturing and technologies division, said in a statement there were no plans to move the manufacturing and industrial technologies division to Washington.
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