Maxwell AFB is planning an innovation center to be built outside the gates of the air base. It will be a gathering place for researchers from the Air University.
It will connect with the MGMix for high speed internet.
“(The innovation center) is going to become a honeypot for every company that wants to do business with the military, every person that wants to innovate because they can come to a place where they can act faster than any other place in the country,” Kwast said. “When we break open the gates of that base and bring them out into the city, with the kind of connectivity that this (Montgomery Internet Exchange) provides, you just hang on to your hat and watch how quickly we can invent new ways of living the American dream.”
He describes a Maxwell Boulevard lined with new buildings, housing major aerospace companies, tech giants and more. All of that could happen — and soon — “if we do this right,” an Air Force general said.
An official announcement will come in early 2018.
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