The IDF announces it has moved the first units into a newly established military-technological campus in Beersheba in southern Israel.
The campus, spread over an area of 150,000 square meters (1.6 million square feet), is located adjacent to the Gav-Yam Negev Advanced Technologies park, in the proximity of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
It will serve some 8,000 soldiers and career officers from the C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate, in addition to housing the headquarters of the IDF Southern Command and a secretive Israeli Air Force technology unit.
As part of the move, the directorate’s schools for computing and communications entered the campus last week. At a later date, the directorate’s operational units will also enter the base.
The Southern Command headquarters is expected to relocate from a historic building in Beersheba’s Old City to the tech campus later this year.
The IDF decided in 2011 to move many of its bases from the center of the country to the south, consolidating operations to save money and open up land for development in the center of the country.
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