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MIT seeks to invest $450m at Hanscom

10-year plan would expand Lincoln Lab

By Bryan Bender

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 20, 2012

The Department of Defense has quietly approved an MIT proposal to build a $450 million research facility at Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, in a joint venture between the university and the federally-funded Lincoln Laboratories, one of the Pentagon’s premier weapons labs, according to government officials. The ten-year project is especially welcome news at a time when budget cuts have already impacted the Air Force workforce on the base and as officials fear further military downsizing efforts,.

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