Efforts to keep NSF and land FBI are wholly unrelated, congressman says.
U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, who has spent months working to keep the National Science Foundation in Arlington, is optimistic that work will pay off. "People have come to the conclusion that the best location is right near where they are — in the Ballston corridor," Moran told Patch last week following a news conference about Virginia's efforts to land the new FBI headquarters. "I think the NSF is going to stay in Ballston," he said, noting the number of its employees who live within a short distance of the facility. Moran, who brought together Northern Virginia leaders with a "singular focus" of landing the new FBI headquarters in Virginia, said the two projects were wholly unrelated. Arlington is perhaps the only jurisdiction in Northern …
Local, state and federal officials say they worked for years to keep the agency that gave the world the Internet in Arlington.
The government agency that gave birth to the Internet, unmanned drones and stealth technology officially settled in to its new location Tuesday at 675 N. Randolph St., just east of Ballston Common Mall. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is essentially the brain of the Department of Defense. It had been located near Arlington Central Library, but area representatives have worried it would leave Arlington — a community already coming to grips with the loss of an estimated 20,000 jobs as part of the Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC, process. “Every community in the country wanted DARPA,” U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., told Patch. “…It was politics and policy that enabled us to keep it here.” Arlington did more than …
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Dan Wendell
2:18 pm on Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Don't you think that Ballston is going through a makeover? The addition of DARPA and other buidlings at the 4000 block of Wilson Blvd, the Va Tech building at the corner of Glebe and Wilson, the new Harris Teeter coming to the corner of Carlin Springs and Glebe. Yes, Ballston Common needs to be updated, but it will come. Everything is not going to happen all at the same time. The mall will … more ›