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Texas A&M Approves Plans For $130 Million Army Futures Command Tech Development Facility

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

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Texas A&M Approves Plans For $130 Million Army Futures Command Tech Development Facility

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’s board of regents on Thursday approved plans to spend $130 million to build a new complex on its RELLIS campus that will serve as Army Futures Command’s central testing hub for next-generation technologies. University officials said the move will turn the 2,000-acre RELLIS campus in Bryan, Texas, into a “living laboratory” by June 2021, and will also serve as the “the hypersonics research capital of the country.” “The fact that the Army Futures Command chose RELLIS campus…

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