WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Army is preparing to supervise the construction of an underground military complex near Tel Aviv.
The five-story complex, dubbed “Site 911," is expected to take more than two years to build and will cost up to $100 million, according to a report in the Washington Post Thursday. It will be situated inside an Israeli Air Force base.
The construction of the facility, to be supervised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will have classrooms, an auditorium, a laboratory, shock-resistant doors and protection from non-ionizing radiation. Security will be extremely tight.
Only U.S. construction firms are allowed to bid on the contract and proposals are due by Dec. 3, according to the paper, which quoted the latest Corps of Engineers notice.
Within the past two years the Corps, which has three offices in Israel, completed a $30 million set of hangars at the IAF Nevatim base, the paper reported.
Site 911, which will be built at another base, appears to be one of the largest projects undertaken by the Corps in Israel. Each of the first three underground floors is to be roughly 41,000 square feet, according to the Corps notice.
The lower two floors are much smaller and hold equipment.
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