NORAD not moving — for now

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NORAD not moving — for now
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Dec 12, 2007 19:22:13 EST

Congress has put the brakes on a plan to relocate North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command from the secretive Cheyenne Mountain Air Station, Colo., to Peterson Air Force Base, Colo.

The 2008 defense authorization bill approved Dec. 6 by the House and Senate armed services committees orders that the move not go ahead until the Office of the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a cost-benefit analysis and final plans for the relocation.

OSD must also include in its report a security and vulnerability assessment of the command’s proposed new home at Peterson.

The bill withholds $5 million from the Air Force’s 2008 budget that the service intended to put toward partially shutting down Cheyenne Mountain. Plans call for putting the facility in what it calls a “warm standby” status.

The report must be submitted by March 1, the bill said, and the Air Force will get its $5 million once OSD submits the report.


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