Partnership building in Central Florida comes to fore

A lot of deliberations did take place followed by several round-table conferences regarding its construction but after all the partnership building between UCF and the military in Central Florida Research Park is a reality. It has been learnt that the building solely would led the way to create thousands of jobs and it will also be the home to laboratories for a range of modeling and simulation research.

In the inaugural session lots of dignitaries were present. These included President John C. Hitt, Orange County Commissioner Bill Segal, Sen. Dan Webster and Walt Disney World Resort President Meg Crofton, along with others involved with the project, and they lifted their shovels and broke ground on Partnership III. There were 130 people in attendance, including military personnel and leaders of UCF, Orange County and the state.

“I can tell you that American military men and women around the world owe their lives to the work that is being done right here in Central Florida,” Gaddis said. “The training systems [will] teach them to fight smarter, fight better and give them a greater chance of coming home alive.” It has been found that some of the research conducted in Partnership III will concentrate on improving medical care to save lives of military personnel and civilians. The research will also benefit law enforcement officers and emergency health care providers.

Speaking on this Rear Adm. Donald Gaddis, the Assistant Commander for Research and Engineering for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division, said, the association is inimitable because nowhere in the Department of Defense do the Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps unite with academia and industry.

In the building there shall be the presence of UCF’s new high-performance computing cluster, which will enable thousands of people to engage in realistic training scenarios in the same virtual world. As per Gaddis, the building is “another jewel in the crown of Central Florida high-tech community.”

The budget for the building is $20 million, all of which was provided by the state and is separate from its allocations to UCF. No student tuition dollars are being used for the project.