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- [Man] And the ribbon was cut on the 22nd of March 2018

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for the new building that expands

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the Air Marine Operations Center

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at March Air Reserve Base, California.

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^- CBP and Air Marine, they now have a facility

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that is more accommodating for their mission.

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The tax dollars were well spent,

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'cause it does enhance the mission, number one.

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Number two, it was a competitive process

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that we put out and awarded this contract.

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It came in pretty close

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to what the independent cost estimate was

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with a small business contractor.

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They did hire people from within the community here,

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and so it came in on the budget estimate.

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^- It is roughly over 22,000 square feet.

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^We were able to break ground, complete the building

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in about 16 months, which is great timing

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for government work and funding,

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we've been able to keep everything

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within our requirements and parameters.

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The wireless technology we have here,

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everything is underground, the cables,

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so if there's a power outage where the cables go down,

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will not affect us.

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We've looked at all the new technologies

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for communications for this building.

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The access is extremely limited.

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There are guard gates at the Air Reserve Base,

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and we have our additional guard gates

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for our AMOC facility.

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^- About 3,500-square foot conference room,

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^which is really nice.

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We've also modernized our ADP room,

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which has a hot/cold aisle now

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as compared to previously it was a very inefficient way

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of cooling the racks and keeping the servers cool.

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There's still a lot of room for expansion here,

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so we're getting towards that 80,000-square foot AMOC campus

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that we desire.

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This 22,000-square foot building brings us to about 60,000,

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so about another 20, 25,000 and we'll be there.

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^- So I think that the next step,

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^in an incremental fashion, would be to construct

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^a third building that is intelligence-centric.

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For just as this second building has been technology-centric

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and information systems-centric,

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the next building should be intelligence-centric,

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'cause that is a huge growth area

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and it pays geometric dividends

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to the operational, law enforcement size that it has.

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Well, this expansion plan and the support we receive

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from the Appropriations Committee

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and from CBP headquarters, from AMO headquarters,

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clearly indicates that they understand

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the critical nature of the work we do.

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The understand that there is no backstop to us.

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They understand there is no second string.

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There isn't a safety net for what we do,

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therefore this is an important place to invest,

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it's an important place to try to visualize the future.

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It's an important place to prepare us

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for those threats that are not yet known,

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for those threats that are kind of fuzzy.

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You can kind of see them over the horizon.

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We kind of get a sense of it,

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and today you have to start preparing for the things

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that will happen to us tomorrow.

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