"Searched for an appropriate thread in vain; so posting here".
Reporting an AP wire in the Fort Worth Business Press, the U.S. Army is seeking proposals for the location of its next Command Center. 15 cities, including 3 in Texas have been contacted. Fort Worth is not among them; unless its status is as a subset of Dallas.
Austin, Dallas and Houston are apparently under consideration.
I think the odds are in favor of Houston for the obvious reasons that it has a large concentration of engineers (Space Center); it has three prominent research universities within its region (Texas A&M, U of Houston, and Rice); its has of course the largest and easily recognized world class Medical Center; and then it is the national center for all things chemical.
Really, I don't understand completely why Austin is always included for consideration; just my opinion. I don't believe that Dallas + (Tarrant County) is in much of a position to be a serious contender. However, it is what it is.
The factors -http://www.fortworth...86c488c6a3.html