Construction Begins on New Foreign Ordnance Exploration Center

Huntsville, Alabama A ground-breaking ceremony was held at Redstone Arsenal to mark the start of construction of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center's (MSIC's) Explosive Ordnance Exploitation complex. The $10M construction project is scheduled to take two years to complete with plans for the 25,000 square foot facility calling for seven stand-alone facilities and two open storage buildings. The explosive operations building will be used for missile disassembly and has four bays and an explosive proof infrastructure.

Although the Navy is responsible for providing EOD training and publications and already has a robust foreign ordnance exploration capability, it's no surprise that the new facility is being constructed at Redstone given the fact that advocate for the project was Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, a member of the Appropriations Committee.