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THE NATIONAL AIR SPACE INTELLIGENCE CENTER | Dayton, OH

This is the United States Air Force, National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) for analyzing military intelligence on foreign air and space forces, weapons, and systems. NASIC assessments of aerospace performance characteristics, capabilities, and vulnerabilities are used to shape national security and defense policies and support weapons treaty negotiations and verification.

PHASE I
The NASIC project is truly a state-of-the-art, one-of-a-kind project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This project consisted of a new 150,000-square-foot addition and a multi-phased phased 90,000-square-foot renovation.

This facility incorporates significant electrical and HVAC redundancy for extraordinarily high electrical and mechanical loads to provide increased reliability.

The basement of the addition is highly secure and contains large multi-functional laboratories for physical and chemical research, including a personal decontamination system with a large HVAC unit to provide pressurization and chemical, biological, and radiation (CBR) filtration.

The first floor contains a new classified tier two data/lab center, a 500-seat auditorium, a new dining area, and additional mechanical space.

PHASE II

A $24.1 million expansion at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center’s (NASIC) Foreign Materials Exploitation Laboratory in Dayton. The 58,000-square-foot expansion was completed in 2017 and doubled the size of the current lab.

The Foreign Materials Exploitation Laboratory reverse engineers an adversary’s air, space and cyberspace technology to determine how it works. The facility is located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, since the 1930s.

COLD WAR HANGAR & HALL OF MISSILES | WPAFB, OH

A 220,000-square-foot aircraft hangar with complex arched trusses designed to withstand the loads of hanging aircraft. Hangar Three is the central element of the USAF Museum Addition. The hangar’s clear span truss construction and extensive standing-seam metal roof blend with existing museum buildings and nearby structures in Area B of WPAFB.

The museum’s structural centerpieces are sweeping arched trusses that rise to an impressive height of 87 feet. The Hall of Missiles is 120 feet in diameter and has an approximate height of 140 feet.

HANGAR FOUR | WPAFB, OH

Under a design-assist contract with Turner Construction Company, Chapel provided electrical and systems construction services for the National Museum for the U.S. Air Force, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio. The work included the design of Hangar Four for the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force that will house exhibits for the space shuttle, featuring NASA’s first crew compartment trainer (CCT-1), presidential aircraft, research and development exhibit with the XB-70 and other aerospace vehicles, and global reach aircraft including the C-141 Hanoi Taxi.

The new LEED Gold hangar includes 14 structural bays totaling 169,000 square feet and connects to the museum’s existing Hall of Missiles. This exhibit space is a clear span structure with hangar doors on east and west ends with a total clear opening of 170-feet wide by 42-feet high, matching the existing hangar for materials and finishes. The hangar features a prefinished, insulated, seamed metal enclosure that meets the energy requirements for the envelope. Site work included the design for the aircraft taxiway, apron, aircraft parking, and pavement markings.

ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT COMPLEX | WPAFB, OH

The Acquisition Management Complex, which now consists of four buildings of about 470,000 square feet built in three phases, will contain up to 1.7 million square feet and house about 9,000 people.

The first phase, a 107,000-square-foot facility, was completed in September 1994, according to information from the U.S. Air Force. Phase two, finished in July 1996, consisted of two buildings totaling 184,000 square feet and phase three, a 108,000-square-foot building, was finished in June.

Phase three will house the weapons systems program office that is responsible for procuring the next generation of aircraft.

Phase four was completed in 2006.