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April, 2018 News 

• 4-30-18 BISNOW Real Estate News:  Housing A Primary Focus For Amazon In HQ2 Discussions, D.C.-Area Leaders Say
• 4-30-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: DAYTIME LANE CLOSURES PLANNED APRIL 30-MAY 4 on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Ave and Chestnut St
• 4-30-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Developers Submit Sketch Plan Designs for Office Building on Sunoco Site -- Construction on downtown Bethesda project could start in 2019
• 4-30-18 Association of Defense Communities:  Legislation Would Protect Medical Facilities from Closure during Transition to New Agency
• 4-30-18 Association of Defense Communities:  BRAC Round Could Help Foster Growth of Unmanned Systems, Niemeyer Says
• 4-29-18 WJZ/CBS TV (Baltimore):  Researchers: Urban Sprawl Could Impact D.C./Baltimore Housing Market By 2040
• 4-29-18 New York Times:  One Goal of Amazon’s HQ2: Learn the Lessons of Seattle -- Amazon has surprised officials in cities vying for the company’s new headquarters by asking how to avoid soaring housing costs and paralyzing traffic
  • 4-26-18 Washingtonian:  How the Arrival of Amazon’s HQ2 Could Affect Washington Rents -- The results of a new analysis by Zillow might surprise you
  • 4-26-18 Montgomery Community Media:  Hogan: Amazon Could Mean More Jobs Than Expected -- Amazon is considering as many as 80,000 jobs for its “HQ2,” Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday
• 4-27-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Leggett: New Economic Report Cherry-Picked Data To Frighten Voters -- The Montgomery County executive responded Friday to statistics presented in a Sage Policy Group report that suggested the local economy was struggling
  • 4-27-18 Maryland Matters blog:  Analysis: A Provocateur, a Foil and a Dilemma for Montgomery County Business Leaders
  • 4-27-18 Washington Post:  Study: Montgomery Co. economy is stagnant, and leaders are ignoring job creation
  • 4-26-18 Bethesda Magazine:  New Report Warns of Challenges Ahead for Local Economy -- Report commissioned by Empower Montgomery focuses on struggle to attract jobs, expand tax base
• 4-27-18 Law360.com:  Feds Urge DC Court To Toss Challenge To $5.6B Purple Line
• 4-27-18 Montgomery County Sentinel:  SHA holds open house on Hogan’s I-270 plan
• 4-27-18 Association of Defense Communities:  Leaders on Senate Panel Recognize OEA’s Critical Role
• 4-27-18 United States Army:  Artificial intelligence helps Soldiers learn faster
• 4-26-18 War on the Rocks:  An Inflection Point for Scientific and Technical Intelligence -- Commentary by Brian Holmes, Dean of the Anthony G. Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence at the National Intelligence University in Bethesda, MD. and Max Greenlee, a National Intelligence University alumnus
• 4-26-18 United States Army:  Army installations enhancing 'power-projection platforms'
• 4-26-18 HISTORY:  Pensions for Veterans Were Once Viewed as Government Handouts
• 4-26-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLASTS PLANNED FOR APRIL 30, 2018
• 4-26-18 Association of Defense Communities:  DOD Could Fund Off-Base Infrastructure Projects under Proposed Authority
• 4-26-18 Aberdeen Proving Ground News:  APBI talks industry partnerships -- Industry partners learned about the Army’s upcoming contracting needs during the annual Advanced Planning Briefing to Industry at Aberdeen Proving Ground, April 17-20
• 4-25-18 Washington Post:  Montgomery County, Md., has 421 parks. This guy wants to visit every one
• 4-25-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Study aims to ease congestion through toll lanes on Capital Beltway, I-270
• 4-25-18 Association of Defense Communities:  With No BRAC in Sight, OEA Unneeded, Thornberry Indicates
  • 4-24-18 Military Times:  Congress must act to rein in DoD waste, red tape -- Commentary by Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
• 4-25-18 Federal News Radio WFED 1500 AM:  5 things every fed should know about telework
• 4-24-18 Montgomery Community Media:  Construction Continues in Bethesda at 7272 Wisconsin Ave, Site of Future Purple Line Station
• 4-24-18 Source of the Spring blog:  Long Branch, Bonifant businesses could get county funding
• 4-24-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  More and more drivers in Maryland continue to take the ICC
• 4-24-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Bethesda residents call for speed cameras on stretch of River Road
• 4-24-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Wegmans Is Coming to Twinbrook Development -- Developer B.F. Saul announced Tuesday it signed a lease with the popular grocer
• 4-24-18 Washington Post:  Metro: New labor contract could bust budget ceiling and trigger $180 million in penalties
• 4-23-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Work begins on new I-270 interchange -- The construction of an interchange for Watkins Mill Road has become more apparent to drivers along the so-called “Technology Corridor” in recent weeks, as a new bridge begins to take shape
• 4-23-18 Bethesda Magazine:  MCPS Takes First Place in Ranking on College-Preparedness, STEM Career Readiness -- Wheaton High also recognized for student performance in AP, science courses
• 4-23-18 U.S. News & World Report:  Military Health System Acknowledges Risk -- The Defense Health Agency says changes are needed to ensure patient safety
• 4-23-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLASTS PLANNED FOR APRIL 24 & 27
• 4-23-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Work Underway To Modify Entrance to Downtown Bethesda -- Crews are narrowing the merge lane from Wisconsin Avenue to Woodmont Avenue near the National Institutes of Health
• 4-23-18 THE HILL:  Republican's plan to cut Pentagon waste eliminates an office designed to do just that -- The other problem is that one of his targets for elimination is the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA). This is the agency that manages the process of closing bases and turning them over to communities, civilian agencies, and private interests for redevelopment. If he shuts that office down, Thornberry will actually be preserving waste that the military is eager to discard
  • 4-22-18 Defense One:  Thornberry’s Pentagon-Reform Plan to Nowhere -- Commentary by William D. Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy
• 4-23-18 Bethesda Magazine:  8 Great ‘Affordable’ Neighborhoods -- We’ve rounded up Bethesda-area neighborhoods with nice houses, a strong sense of community, a convenient location—and the relatively low average price of less than $700,000
• 4-21-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Local governments nominate ‘Opportunity Zones’ for federal tax breaks -- In Maryland, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development selected 149 zones, which included several in Montgomery County. One area is a stretch of Rockville Pike, between Twinbrook Parkway and Rockville Town Center. It’s only a block away from White Flint, an area Amazon is reportedly considering for its second headquarters. Areas in White Oak, Silver Spring and Wheaton also were nominated.
• 4-20-18 Washington Post:  The unspoken factor in Amazon’s search for a new home: Jeff Bezos’s support for gay rights
  • 4-20-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Hogan Joins Virginia, D.C. Leaders in Signing Letter Urging Amazon To Locate Second Headquarters in Region -- The March 2 letter shows a new level of cooperation between the city and two states that are among the 20 places competing to land the company
• 4-20-18 C4ISR.net:  A new Army lab to accelerate the use of biometric data -- The Biometric System Integration Laboratory, which opened in February at Fort Belvoir in northern Virginia, will serve as a proving ground for emerging biometric devices and networking capabilities
• 4-20-18 U.S. Department of Defense:  PTSD: On and off the battlefield, the fight continues
• 4-20-18 Fredericksburg (VA) Free Lance-Star:  Relocating Dahlgren's chem/bio facility is a bad move -- Commentary by five local elected officials
• 4-20-18 Washington Post:  Maryland governor calls for new highway contract
  • 4-20-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Hogan responds to ethics concerns over pulled transportation contract
  • 4-19-18 Baltimore Sun:  Democrats push Maryland Gov. Hogan to release correspondence between company and his administration -- The Maryland Democratic Party called on Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, his campaign and his administration Thursday to release all correspondence with the transportation company HNTB Corp., whose proposed contract with the state has come under ethics scrutiny this week. The move escalates an election-year controversy over how state transportation officials recommended a company to oversee one of Hogan’s signature initiatives to reduce traffic congestion in the Washington suburbs
• 4-20-18 Association of Defense Communities:  DOD Installations Chief Lays out Path toward Future BRAC Decision
  • 4-20-18 Association of Defense Communities:  BRAC Provides Larger Target for Costs Savings, Experts Say
• 4-19-18 Defense News:  Army narrows locations for new Futures Command to 15
  • 4-18-18 Defense News:  Where will US Army Futures Command go? Lawmakers are lobbying to host it.
  • 4-18-18 Washington Business Journal:  Maryland leaders make pitch to land Army Futures Command
• 4-19-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: LANE CLOSURES PLANNED APRIL 23-27 on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Ave and Chestnut St
• 4-18-18 Washington Post:  Officials question future of fast-tracked Maryland transportation contract
  • 4-18-18 Maryland Matters blog:  Board of Public Works Pulls Controversial Transportation Contract from Agenda
  • 4-17-18 Washington Post:  Hogan administration delays consideration of fast-tracked transportation contract
  • 4-16-18 Washington Post:  Speedy selection process ends with Maryland official’s former firm being chosen for project -- “Another critical factor in getting the approval as quickly as possible is Maryland’s role in Amazon’s Search for a Second Headquarters Location,” the document says.
• 4-18-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Local Historian Plans Weekend Pop-Up Museum at Talbot Avenue Bridge in Silver Spring -- Display will educate visitors about history of communities around the crossing
• 4-18-18 BISNOW:  White Flint Mall Lawsuit Put On Hold As Amazon Considers Site For HQ2
• 4-18-18 Washington Post:  Here’s how researchers think the Washington-Baltimore region could look in 20 years
• 4-18-18 U.S. Department of Defense:  DoD’s Underfunded Maintenance Backlog Exceeds $116 Billion, Official Says
• 4-18-18 Federal News Radio WFED 1500 AM:  Thornberry’s plan to cut defense agencies met with skepticism
  • 4-18-18 Army Times:  Key Democrat fighting plan to slash Pentagon agencies
  • 4-18-18 Association of Defense Communities:  Thornberry Proposes Massive Cuts to Support Agencies -- DOD’s Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) and six other defense support agencies would be eliminated by Jan. 1, 2021, as part of a proposal to streamline Pentagon bureaucracy unveiled Tuesday by House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas)
  • 4-18-18 Stars and Stripes:  Armed Services member opposes plan to cut 25 percent from dozens of DOD agencies
  • 4-17-18 Defense News:  Major bill aims to slash Pentagon bureaucracy
  • 4-17-18 Federal News Radio WFED 1500 AM:    House proposal would eliminate DISA, 6 other agencies to save money in DoD -- The plan cuts DoD’s so-called “Fourth Estate” by 25 percent by 2021. The Fourth Estate is comprised of 28 agencies that are not part of a military service and employs 200,000 civilian personnel and nearly 600,000 contractors
• 4-18-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Plans for Richmond Highway includes widening, Bus Rapid Transit system -- Plans are on the drawing boards to transform Richmond Highway in Alexandria, which call for a nearly 9-mile Bus Rapid Transit system from the Huntington Metro station to Fort Belvoir
• 4-17-18 Washington Post:  What happened to all those governance changes for Metro?
• 4-17-18 Bethesda Magazine:  New Images Released of Proposal for Bethesda Metro Center Plaza -- Developer to meet with design advisory panel next week
• 4-17-18 Federal News Radio WFED 1500 AM:  In lieu of BRAC, DoD plans big spending to demolish crumbling facilities
  • 4-16-18 U.S. Government Accountability Office:  GAO Report 18-231 -- Military Bases: DOD Should Address Challenges with Communication and Mission Changes to Improve Future Base Realignment and Closure Rounds
• 4-17-18 U.S. Department of Defense:  Wanted: experienced ship designers -- Having experienced designers on the ship design team who have worked together on other designs was the main theme of Bob Keane’s presentation during Rear Adm. David W. Taylor Naval Architecture Lecture on April 12 at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland
  • 4-17-18 U.S. Department of Defense:  Carderock hosts the Naval Engineering Education Consortium
• 4-16-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Wildwood Medical Center Owner Submits Plan for New Mixed-Use Building -- Project could bring up to 60 multifamily units to the Bethesda center
• 4-16-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Costco Loses Legal Appeal in Effort To Put Large Gas Station at Wheaton Mall -- Maryland judges issue ruling in years-long battle
• 4-16-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Survey: Reliable travel times No. 1 priority for DC-area commuters
• 4-15-18 Washingtonian:  Which Washington-Area Neighborhoods Will Boom Next? -- All across the region, big change is on the way in formerly quiet places. Here’s a look at the spots poised for some of the most dramatic transformations—and price hikes—in the decades to come
• 4-13-18 Association of Defense Communities:  DOD Looks to Congress for Direction on Eliminating Unneeded Capacity
• 4-12-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Montgomery County expands Capital Bikeshare in the Pike District
• 4-12-18 U.S. Department of Defense:  DoD Official: Years of Sequestration Caused Need for Larger Budget
• 4-12-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: SINGLE LANE CLOSURES PLANNED APRIL 16-20 on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Ave and Chestnut St
• 4-12-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLASTS PLANNED FOR APRIL 16, 17 & 20
• 4-12-18 West Virginia Public Broadcasting:  W.Va. Riders of Maryland-Based Commuter Train Say They'll Likely Leave State if Service Ends
• 4-11-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: REVISED SCHEDULE: CONTROLLED BLAST PLANNED FOR WEDNESDAY, APRIL11
• 4-10-18 Defense One:  Going BRAC-less: What to Do with the US Military’s Excess Property
• 4-9-18 BISNOW Real Estate:  Purple Line Construction Already Sparking Suburban Maryland Office Renaissance -- "Bethesda is on fire right now and is going through a renaissance in terms of the amount of high-quality space hitting the market,"
• 4-9-18 Navy Times:  Your Navy -- Test your tech on the military's coolest boat
• 4-7-18 Washington Post:  As e-biking grows, U.S. cities consider easing rules on where the machines may be used
• 4-6-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossingf Project Update: SINGLE LANE CLOSURES planned APRIL 9-13 on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Ave and Chestnut St
• 4-6-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Montgomery County Executive Proposes Speedier Zoning Approval Designed To Help Secure Amazon H2Q -- Change would expedite the traditional development review for county approval, but only for a very large company
  • 4-6-18 Baltimore Sun:  Maryland's Amazon HQ2 incentive package leads the pack. Here's how other cities' proposals stack up
• 4-6-18 Washington Post:  Poverty is moving to the suburbs. The war on poverty hasn’t followed.
• 4-6-18 Bethesdda Magazine:  Lyttonsville Place Bridge To Close This Summer for Purple Line Construction -- Crossing is important entrance and exit to Lyttonsville neighborhood; Silver Spring’s Spring Street bridge to be closed in 2020
• 4-5-18 Washington Post:  Tired of the Smithsonian? These small, quirky museums are worth a visit -- The National Museum of Health and Medicine in Silver Spring has an impressive permanent collection of anatomical specimens and medical oddities
• 4-5-18 WAMU 88.5 FM:  Price Check: Incentives For Amazon’s HQ2 May Cost Maryland More Than Gov. Hogan Said
• 4-5-18 Washington Times:  Army opera ‘The Falling and The Rising’ tells soldiers’ true stories -- The brainchild of Staff Sgt. Ben Hilgert, an accomplished veteran of the opera stage before joining the Army, and Chicago writer and director Jerre Dye, the unusual production’s plot is based on real soldiers’ stories, gathered from more than 30 interviews with wounded service members at Bethesda’s Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland and from active-duty soldiers at the Washington region’s
• 4-5-18 Tom Philpott's Military Update:  Despite start-up challenges, MHS Genesis gains in user support
• 4-5-18 NAS Patuxent River TESTER:  A glance back: Celebrating Pax River's 75 years of naval aviation excellence, 1943-2018
• 4-4-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Public gets chance to weigh in on Md. toll lane plans
  • 4-3-18 Maryland State Highway Administration:  MDOT SHA Seeks Input for I-495 & I-270 Managed Lanes Study at Public Open Houses This Month in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties -- Citizens Encouraged to Attend Mid-April Evening Meetings in Upper Marlboro, Clarksburg, Bethesda and Greenbelt
• 4-4-18 Washington Post:  Maryland legislators approve record-breaking package to lure Amazon
  • 4-4-18 Washington Post:  With the scent of Amazon in the air, owners of White Flint Mall are at odds
• 4-3-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  Changes to US Route 1 would include final widening, bus lanes, buildings -- Last month, Fairfax County approved the Embark Richmond Highway Comprehensive Plan Amendment, which backs special lanes for bus rapid transit extending south from the Huntington Metro station eventually all the way to Fort Belvoir, a major increase in dense development around the stations, and possibly a Yellow Line Metro extension to Hybla Valley in the very long term
• 4-3-18 Federal News Radio WFED 1500 AM:  Congress gives DoD big boost for facility upkeep, but not enough to fix deteriorating buildings
• 4-2-18 CNBC:  Amazon executives have started their headquarters search visits. Here's what they're reportedly asking about
  • 4-2-18 Wall Street Journal:  Rules of Engagement: How Cities Are Courting Amazon’s New Headquarters -- Finalists for the company’s second home base break out bicycles to win over the internet giant
• 4-2-18 Washingtonian:  As Amazon Considers White Flint Site, Part-Owners Say They’re Being Squeezed Out -- A lawsuit claims a partnership featuring Nats owner Ted Lerner is trying to force a buyout
  • 4-2-18 Bethesda Magazine:  White Flint Property Draws Another Lawsuit as Amazon Decision Looms -- A minority owner of the former mall site is alleging a partnership involving Tower Cos. and Ted Lerner is trying to force it to sell its stake for a fraction of its value
• 4-2-18 Washington Post:  Rosemary Hills and Lyttonsville shouldn’t be cut off by the Purple Line -- Letter to the Editor from Mark Mendez, president of the Rosemary Hills Neighbors Association in Silver Spring
• 4-2-18 Bethesda Magazine:  Planning Board To Consider Silver Spring Redevelopment on Site of Condemned Office Building -- Proposal calls for 83,000-square-foot complex with housing, work space
• 4-2-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: CONTROLLED BLASTS PLANNED FOR WEDNESDAY-FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 5 & 6
• 4-2-18 MCDOT:  MD 355 Crossing Project Update: SINGLE LANE CLOSURES PLANNED APRIL 2-6 AND APRIL 9-13 on Rockville Pike between Woodmont Ave and Chestnut St
• 4-2-18 Bethesda Magazine:  County Planning Department Launches Online Tool for Tracking Bethesda Development -- Website offers users a look at the big picture and at details of individual projects
• 4-1-18 Maryland Matters blog:  Amazon Headquarters Site Search Provides Boost to Metro Funding Quest
  • 3-30-18 WTOP 103.5 FM:  ‘We had to step up’: Md. Senate votes in favor of dedicated funding to Metro
  • 3-30-18 Roll Call:  Metro Seeks Stable Federal Funding as States Set to Pony Up -- Plan could hit a stumbling block in President Donald Trump, who has proposed deep cuts
• 4-1-18 Washington Post:  Metro Inc. Is it too late for a Washington transit branding reboot?
• 4-1-18 CBS News, 60 Minutes:  (VIDEO REPORT)  How IEDs may be physically causing PTSD -- Scar tissue found in the brains of combat veterans who suffered from PTSD could mean that many cases of the disorder are caused by physical trauma
• 4-1-18 Washington Post:  Incoming NSA chief has a reputation for winning ‘all the important fights.’ Russia will be his biggest test yet.
   
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