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In his address, Army Materiel Command Deputy Commanding General and Redstone Arsenal Senior Commander, Lt. Gen. Donnie Walker, praised the arsenal’s world-class workforce and stressed the importance of investing in the next generation of talent as Redstone is projected to grow by 50,000 over the next five years.

“Redstone’s ability to support current and future missions is contingent on our support infrastructure,” said Walker, adding that over the next six years Redstone has programmed an additional investment of more than $134 million in infrastructure and $675 million in facilities.

The FBI’s $1 billion state-of-the-art campus is one of the arsenal’s newest facilities and is slated to bring nearly 3,000 employees from 12 divisions to the Tennessee Valley. With the FBI, Redstone will expand its intelligence and homeland defense footprint, increasing the installation’s cyber, counterterrorism, ballistics, and explosive-device capabilities.

In addition to installation growth, the event highlighted organizations across the installation’s four core competencies: logistics; space operations and missile defense; research, development, test and engineering; and intelligence and homeland defense…

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