DRAFT-Rapid Expandable Modular SCIF Construction Project (REMS) for U.S. Pacific Command

U.S. Pacific Command (US PACOM), headquartered at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, requires additional accredited Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) space to support programmed personnel growth projected to reach approximately 229 personnel in Fiscal Years 2028-2029. The existing headquarters, the Nimitz-MacArthur Building (Building 700), lacks sufficient accredited SCIF capacity to meet evolving Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) mission requirements. Staff require concurrent NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS access to plan and execute theater operations, yet conventional site-built SCIF construction cannot deliver this capacity at the speed required. Expanding an accredited facility typically forces disruptive reconstruction and re-accreditation, while building in Hawaii adds long logistics chains, seismic and wind loads, salt-air corrosion, and termite challenges. A faster, scalable, accreditation-ready approach is needed to sustain command readiness in the Indo-Pacific.
This Construction Project will deliver a temporary, one-story, prefabricated modular administrative SCIF on a permanent concrete foundation adjacent to Building 700, designed, fabricated, transported, installed, tested, and supported through accreditation for continuous TS/SCI operations by 140 personnel at beneficial occupancy. The novel elements are a modular SCIF engineered from the outset for vertical expansion to 229 personnel without de-accreditation or major reconstruction of the first-floor envelope, and a validated secure off-site fabrication, construction-security, and chain-of-custody process for delivering accreditable modules to Hawaii. All testing and validation (factory acceptance, acoustic, electronic security, network, and accreditation inspections) will occur under mission-relevant conditions at an operational combatant command headquarters, in compliance with ICD 705, the IC Technical Specification, and applicable UFC criteria. This prototype demonstrates a repeatable business process that can shorten secure-facility timelines across the Indo-Pacific theater.
## Problem Statement
Mission demand for TS/SCI work in the Indo-Pacific theater is growing faster than accredited facility capacity. Conventional SCIF construction is slow, site-built, and difficult to scale; once a space is accredited, adding capacity typically means disruptive reconstruction and re-accreditation. Building in Hawaii adds further challenges—long ocean/air logistics chains, seismic and high-wind loads, salt-air corrosion, and termites—while off-site fabrication raises hard questions about construction security and chain of custody. Without a faster, scalable approach, US PACOM staff will lack the secure workspace and concurrent NIPRNET/SIPRNET/JWICS access needed to plan and execute operations at the speed the theater requires.
## Overall Objective
Execute a Construction Project to deliver and validate a rapidly deployable, prefabricated modular SCIF solution that achieves ICD 705 accreditation for continuous TS/SCI operations with an initial capacity of 140 personnel at U.S. Pacific Command headquarters at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. The facility must be engineered to expand to 229 personnel (for example, through vertical expansion) without de-accreditation or major reconstruction of the accredited space. The Construction Project will validate a repeatable process for secure off-site fabrication, construction security, chain-of-custody transport to Hawaii, and on-site installation that can inform future secure-facility requirements across the Indo-Pacific theater. The desired end state is a fully accredited, operational SCIF providing secure workspace with concurrent NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS access, delivered at the lowest practical life-cycle cost, with a proven expansion pathway that sustains command readiness ahead of programmed FY2028-2029 personnel growth while demonstrating a novel business process for accelerating secure-facility delivery under ICD 705 compliance.