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Article: 'Telework' center opens at Fort Meade

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May 16, 2007
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BALTIMORE (AP) - One of the largest federal commands moving to Maryland in the national military realignment announced yesterday that it has opened a telecommuting center at Fort Meade.

This is the first step for the Defense Information Systems Agency to move its 4,300 workers to the Army Post.

The agency is the first in place in Maryland among those transferring here as part of the base realignment and closure, or BRAC. The process will bring tens of thousands of defense jobs to Maryland over the next five years.

"BRAC has been this intangible thing to a lot of us," Fort Meade's commander, Col. Kenneth O. McCreedy, said after a ceremony. "It didn't have any form yet. With DISA planting a ...

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