High Tech Shelter Manufacturing Plant Coming to Chattanooga

   Chattanooga will soon become a leader in emergency response and shelter technology.
   Members of the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge and private sector company Adaptive Methods signed a licensing agreement Wednesday to begin manufacturing a Rapid Deployment Shelter System.
   The shelters fold to the size of a semi-trailer and open into a 400 foot nuclear and bio-chemical protected room in less than 2 minutes.
   They can be used for disaster response, medical facilities, and even shelters.
   Adaptive Methods plans to locate a plant here.
   It will initially employ 100 highly skilled engineers, but could add another one to 200.
   Congressman Zach Wamp was on hand for the announcement at the UT-Chattanooga SimCenter, "Now we have the application of these kind of units being delivered after a Katrina or a Sunami or a war in Iraq or Afghanistan or whereever next.  This is neat and it's what our country needs."
   Adaptive Methods is already scouting for a manufacturing site in Hamilton County, and expects to begin making the R-D-S-S by the Spring of next year.