Texas A&M system board of regents approve more money for the Army Futures Command BAM facility
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This podcast contains comments during the November 12, 2020 Texas A&M system board of regents meeting. Speakers include the A&M system's chief facilities officer Russ Wallace, deputy chancellor and chief...
show moreThe cost of a project for the Army Futures Command at the Texas A&M system's RELLIS campus has gone from $25 to $38.6 million dollars.
What is nicknamed the BAM...which stands for Ballistic Aero-optics and Materials facility, will initially allow the Army to fire items at 15,000 miles per hour for a distance of 500 meters, or about one third of a mile.
Vice chancellor Billy Hamilton told the A&M system board of regents the Army's first priority is to build the tube.
That led the regents at this month's meeting to shift $10 million dollars in funding from the governor's office and add more than $3.6 million to cover an omission from the engineering company that is designing the project.
Construction is scheduled to start next April.
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