GTS to Build 500,000-SF Green Energy Facility with 1,100 New Jobs and $54.7 Million in Capital Investment
PRESS RELEASE
Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe today announced that Global Technical Systems (GTS), a premier provider of advanced engineering solutions for defense, homeland security and related U.S. Government and international customers, will invest $54.7 million on a new electro-mechanical energy storage system (EMB) manufacturing operation in Virginia Beach. The company will construct a 500,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing center to produce and distribute 100% green energy storage systems using advanced composites and engineering technologies.
GTS provides innovative, cost-effective, high-tech engineering products and product-based services encompassing latest generation software and hardware solutions and engineering services for defense, homeland security and other critical government interests. The company's expertise in advanced technologies generates products and services across a spectrum that includes: mission-critical combat systems processing, C4ISR, advanced carbon fiber systems, including grid and weapons power systems and munitions, biometrics, cybersecurity, military combat systems hardware production, advanced radar and sensor systems, and depot repair and logistics. Construction will begin in the first quarter 2018, and the facility will be operational in 2019.
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