But the site traces its history to the early 1960s, when a company called Bowen-McLaughlin York (BMY) built a plant there because it was roughly equidistant between the two Army commands involved in buying combat vehicles.
In July 1992, OSD effectively rejected the requirements established by the commands responsible for Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Navy Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) for an aircraft with the high speed and long range capabilities critical to their respective missions.