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Texas A&M Approves $79.3 Million To Begin Construction Of Army Futures Command Facility This Fall

Texas A&M Approves $79.3 Million To Begin Construction Of Army Futures Command Facility This Fall
Army Futures Command Gen. John “Mike” Murray (left) visits with Texas A&M System Chancellor John Sharp while visiting the RELLIS Campus in November 2018. Photo: Texas A&M.

Texas A&M University has approved $79.3 million in funding to begin construction this fall of a new complex on its RELLIS campus that will serve as Army Futures Command’s central testing hub for next-generation technologies. The university’s board of regents voted Thursday to approve plans for the new Bush Combat Development Complex, which will house a hypersonic weapons test facility as well as a laboratory and proving grounds for future air and ground combat systems. “Today’s vote will bring hundreds…

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