Army Corps Awards $92 Million For Battlefield Trauma Center

SAN ANTONIO, TX.(AP) – The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $92 million contract for a new battlefield medicine center.

The center on Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio is designed to help integrate combat care research with other functions of the military.

The award announced Monday to Gilbane Building Company is the largest so far in the San Antonio Base Re-alignment Commission program. Local military installations are expected to add as many as 11,000 new military and federal employees in the next several years.

New construction is expected to cost $600 million.

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