Bentley Systems will receive $2.5 million from the US Department of Defense in 2006 for its continuing work on the Pentagon Integrated Campus Pilot Program.
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Pentagon Washington Headquarters Service (WHS) and Pentagon Force Protection Service (PFPS) have been tasked with managing critical infrastructure protection at the Pentagon. Bentley had been providing CAD and documentation support for the remodeling of the Pentagon before the attack, and was a natural choice to continue with this new facilities and infrastructure documentation project.
According to a joint announcement by Pennsylvania’s two US senators, Arlen Specter and Rick Santorum, the money will be used to accelerate a pilot program at the Pentagon to capture, organize and integrate facilities information for the WHS and to improve the delivery of Pentagon building infrastructure information to the Pentagon Force Protection Service.
The original Pentagon remodeling effort was the subject of a September 2001 cover story on Bentley’s magazine, MSM. The magazine, with its full-color aerial cover photo of the Pentagon, was on the desk of thousands of Bentley users the day of the attack.
The original renovation project statistics, as described in the MSM article, were impressive: 6.6 million square feet, $1.2 billion budget, 20,000 scheduled activities, 500,000 MicroStation drawings.
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