US Air Force to Exchange Hanscom Real Property with MIT for FFRDC Expansion
The Department of the Air Force announced a Notice of Intent to exchange federal real property with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The land swap directly supports infrastructure expansion and facility modernization at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a key defense FFRDC at Hanscom Air Force Base.
The Department of the Air Force has formally published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to execute a strategic land exchange with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. Under the proposed transaction, specified federal real property under Air Force jurisdiction will be swapped for non-federal real property owned by MIT. This real estate restructuring directly supports the physical facility requirements, long-term master planning, and mission infrastructure of the Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by MIT at the installation, primarily MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory serves as an irreplaceable pillar of the U.S. national defense innovation base, conducting critical research, prototyping, and technical assessments across space domain awareness, cyber defense, advanced electronics, missile defense, and artificial intelligence. As technical requirements for these mission areas become more complex, the physical infrastructure supporting these programs requires modernized space, updated security boundaries, and enhanced operational utility. This property exchange provides the spatial reconfiguration necessary to expand high-security laboratory facilities and integration spaces at Hanscom AFB.
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