UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COLORADO AIRMANSHIP TRAINING FACILITIES 5. PROGRAM ELEMENT 6. CATEGORY CODE 8. PROJECT COST (S000)

7. PROJECT NUMBER

Reinforced concrete footings, floor slabs, walls and roofs with gravel built-up roofs for addition to parachute shop, sailplane maintenance dock, and hangars. Pre-engineered metal building with reinforced concrete footings and floor slab for paratraining aids shelter; steel tower, swing landing and harness trainers, fall platforms and associated equipment. Two underground POL storage tanks complete with pumps and piping. Airfield pavements including auxiliary runway and access road consisting of compacted gravel, ramp and taxiway with compacted base course and bituminous surface treatment. Administrative and classroom support areas with all electrical, structural and mechanical work necessary to provide complete and usable facilities. Utilities and other necessary support. 11. REQUIREMENT: As Required

PROJECT: Construction of new and alteration of existing facilities to accommodate expanded airmanship training program.

REQUIREMENT: The expanded parachute and soaring training programs at the Academy require new, enlarged and altered facilities to provide adequate support for airmanship training. These include expanded parachute shop, new maintenance dock, auxiliary runway with ramp, taxiway and access road to separate motorgliders from tow plane and sailplane traffic. CURRENT SITUATION: The current soaring training program is being expanded from 300 to 1,200 students and the parachute training program is being increased from 500 to 924 students per year. The existing sailplane fleet of 15 gliders will be increased by 8 new powered gliders. The existing runway is already congested and lacks adequate turn-around facilities to handle the increased soaring program. The auxiliary runway will relieve the congestion on the existing runway and provide the necessary student 1

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There is

loading ramp, taxiway and access road for effective operations.
no existing adequate classroom or briefing space adjacent to the airfield
to support the soaring training program. Sailplane storage area is
currently being used for this purpose. The existing parachute training
facilities are outmoded and deteriorated and located a mile away from the
parachute operations area. The existing parachute shop is too small and
lacks adequate packing, maintenance and storage areas as well as opera-
tions, briefing and classroom space. In addition, there are no parachute
washing facilities or drying tower. Existing latrines and break rooms are
inadequate. Existing POL storage for aviation gas consists of above
ground, contractor-owned tanks. The new underground tanks will eliminate
the need for these and improve safety of POL operations.
IMPACT IF NOT PROVIDED: The expanded soaring and parachute training
programs at the Academy cannot be supported. This would adversely affect
the motivation of cadets toward a career in the Air Force.

FORM

DD, 1391c

PREVIOUS EDITION IS OBSOLETE IN THE USAF.

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A. ESTIMATED ANNUAL COST TO OPERATE THE PROPOSED FACILITY....

B.

NUMBER OF ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT
THE FUNCTION OF THE PROPOSED FACILITY.

C. ESTIMATED LIFE-CYCLE COST TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE
PROPOSED FACILITY..

D. ESTIMATED LIFE-CYCLE COST TO OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE
EXISTING FACILITY IF NEW FACILITY IS A REPLACEMENT.

E. DESIGN DATA (Estimated)

1. STATUS

41 ($000)

20 (PEOPLE)

N/A ($000)

N/A ($000)

F. EQUIPMENT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PROJECT WHICH WILL BE
PROVIDED FROM OTHER APPROPRIATIONS:

Fiscal Year

Appropriated
Or Requested

•(180 ( 47 227

.(

40

(187

Dec 82
(month and
year)

Cost

($000)

None

90-276 0-82--41

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY, COLORADO VISITORS' CENTER 5. PROGRAM ELEMENT

8.58.96

6. CATEGORY CODE

7. PROJECT NUMBER

8. PROJECT COST (S000)

VISITORS CENTER

SUBTOTAL

CONTINGENCY (5%)

TOTAL CONTRACT COST

139

2,914

Reinforced concrete foundation and floor slab, masonry and steel walls, steel roof with built-up roofing, utilities and necessary support. Includes areas for displays and exhibits. 11. REQUIREMENT: 15,000 SF ADEQUATE: PROJECT: Construction of a new Visitors' Center to replace the existing substandard facility.

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SUBSTANDARD: 19,400 SF

REQUIREMENT: The 1.5 million people that visit the Air Force Academy annually consists of family members and relatives as well as general public tourists. For many of these visitors, especially those in the western United States, this will be their only contact with one of their nation's military academies. The objective of this center is to receive, orient and inform visitors on the history and traditions of the Academy and the Air Force. A visitors' center will provide the atmosphere to motivate young people who want to pursue a career of military service in the Air Force.

It is com

CURRENT SITUATION: Of the 1.5 million visitors to the Air Force Academy, only about 300,000 currently go through the existing visitors' center which is located in an old converted foundry and metal work building that was on the Academy land when it was acquired in 1956. The primary reason for this low utilization of the existing visitors' center is its poor geographical location eight miles from the Cadet complex. pletely removed from one of the two primary entry points to the Academy. In addition, the numerous alterations completed on this old foundry building since 1956 have not succeeded in making the facility into an adequate visitors' center. It is too small and not properly configured to accommodate visitors and cannot provide the necessary orientation.

briefing and display areas needed to give visitors the historical and traditional background of the mission of the Academy and the Air Force as well as an adequately conducted walking tour of the Cadet area which is the main goal of any visitor to the Academy. Sufficient precedents exist for providing visitors' centers of this nature with public funds, especially since the Academy Visitors' Center is considered and will be a very important recruiting medium. Some of the precedents are the visitors' center at the Kennedy Space Center, the Naval Historic Center in the Washington Navy Yard, the Battleship Arizona Shoreside Visitors' Center at Pearl Harbor and most recently, the Bicentennial visitors' centers. IMPACT IF NOT PROVIDED: The Academy will not have an adequate facility in which to greet the 1.5 million visitors annually and provide them with a better knowledge of the Academy and the mission of the Air Force. Lack of this project will continue to impact on the ability of the Academy to attract and inspire many young people who visit the Academy to seek a career in the military.

ADDITIONAL: Associated with this project is a nonappropriated fund (NAF) project for $1.9 million to provide a gift shop and restaurant which will be constructed concurrently with the Visitors' Center project.