About The Project
The Next NGA West (N2W) project is a new state-of-the-art campus, encompassing more than 1.8 million square feet that will replace the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) mission-critical facilities in St. Louis. The 97-acre site will feature the main office building, parking garages, visitor center, inspection facility and access control points. The new facility will help the NGA carry out national security missions such as precision targeting and GPS support to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. Over 60% of the space will be classified and require a security clearance. The 700,000-square-foot secure analytics facility will have three zones with innovation and learning spaces:
- A learning center (public zone): public spaces to provide educational forums, academic events with area students and Partners in Education activities.
- An innovation center (unclassified zone): a collaboration lab; and app development with nontraditional partners.
- A research lab (classified zone): facilities for classified research development, a near tech center and labs to support NGA’s research development goals
Employee-focused amenities of the office building include a modern cafeteria, fitness center, meeting spaces, and quiet areas.
Other components of the N2W facilities include:
- Parking garages (1 million square feet) and surface parking for 500 vehicles (175,000 square feet)
- A 38,000-square-foot central utility plant with on-site, above-ground fuel storage and emergency generator yard
- A 6,500-square-foot remote vehicle/truck inspection facility
- A 10,000-square-foot police command center
- A 7,300-square-foot visitor/entry control center
This project requires a specialized network and security engineering such as extensive, robust internal communication networks (wired, wireless, unclassified, classified); sensitive compartmented information facilities; electronic security, and anti-terrorism and force protection. The campus will include a minimum of two access control points, and associated site improvements will include roads, utilities and landscaping on sites ranging in size from 100 to 282 acres.
CCS developed multiple cost estimates using MII software during the development of the planning and RFP phases of this project. The CCS team also participated in internal value engineering reviews, life-cycle assessments, and a cost and schedule risk assessment using the Monte Carlo statistical method.
