A new military intelligence-gathering center here will bring $300 million in construction and add 700 civilian and military positions, the Navy said.

Construction is expected to begin in 2007 on the center adjacent to Whitmore Village that will replace an aging underground facility in Kunia, which employs 2,100 people.

The National Security Agency's Kunia Regional Security Operations Center will be moved out of a World War II-era aircraft assembly plant to a 350,000-square-foot, three-story building at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, or NCTAMS.
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The move to Wahiawa is yet another sign of the military's increasing emphasis on Hawai'i and the Pacific with the end of the Cold War and increasing concerns about the growing military power of countries like China.

Eight of the Air Force's latest-generation C-17 cargo aircraft are expected to arrive on O'ahu beginning in January; the Army is proceeding with plans for a Stryker brigade based around 300 armored vehicles; and the Navy may base an aircraft carrier strike group and more attack submarine at Pearl Harbor.
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Construction on the Kunia center, to be renamed the Hawai'i Regional Security Operations Center, is anticipated to begin in 2007, with occupancy in 2010.

Public comments on the plan will be taken through May 23, but the environmental assessment said a "no-significant-impact" finding is expected.