The center will be fully operational in two years' time, but probably in the middle of the year we will have a temporary laboratory of 4,000 square feet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, by the end of the millennium, five, six months from now, we hope to somehow manage to move into a new location where we have the whole building, so we can devote space to all our activities.
Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
And the reason for focusing on that time frame is that it's going to take us a considerable period of time to develop the new capabilities, processes and organizations that will be needed.
We are a research center and treatment facility all under one roof.
We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
To keep providing our soldiers, sailors and Marines with 21st-century firepower, Picatinny needs 21st-century laboratories and research and development facilities.
The Wall will be standing in 50 and even in 100 years, if the reasons for it are not removed.
There will never be a day where the depth of integration, unless it was all built from the bottom ground up, will be integrated as any of us would like.