Recall posted about this on the GT and I found it interesting enough to make a thread for it.

Ghost Town To Be Built In New Mexico As Huge Research And Testing Site

In the heart of southeastern New Mexico lies a small scientific ghost town that will harbor the latest next-generation technology. But not one person will be able to reap the benefits because it will have a population of zero.

In Lea County, officials have planned a $1 billion city without residents to help researchers test advances from renewable energy to intelligent traffic systems to automated washings machines, reported the Associated Press.

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"The only thing we won't be doing is destructive testing, blowing things up -- I hope," said Bob Brumley, senior managing director of Pegasus Holdings, reported the AP.

The city will be built by Pegasus Holdings. Brumley said the company plans to begin constructing the CITE, also known as Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation, by June 30.

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"Pegasus Global intends CITE to be a privately financed, privately owned and operated facility, committed to open access for all types of innovators, researchers, and investors," said the company in a statement. "Pegasus anticipates CITE will generate at least 350 direct jobs and 3,500 indirect jobs in its design, development, construction and ongoing operational phases."

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/339077/ ... vation.htm

As I am doing the following research, I stumbled on a very interesting situation. I will continue to research, but want to put this up front: The company about which I am writing in the following is called Pegasus-Global Holding, Inc. and the URL is http://www.pegasus-global.com/ . When following the link for Pegasus-Global which is listed in the original article, this is the web page where you are taken. However, in my research, and when I put in the name of the project (CITE), another web page came up, with a company called Pegasus Global Holdings (no hyphen) and the URL is http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com As yet I don't understand this, but be assured I'm going to find out! The following post is about the first company, the one linked to in the original article. The second post will be on the second firm, the one which discusses CITE on its web site.

NOTE: I am not attempting to make any connections or allegations from the following research, just doing a little digging.

Pegasus Holding, Inc. will be constructing the town. (I find it interesting that this firm as well as its major officers are skilled in risk management and risk assessment, as well as arbitration and crisis resolution. Is this project considered to be very risky?)

Some info on them:

Pegasus-Global Holdings, Inc.




The Nielsen-Wurster group was incorporated into Marsh Crisis Consulting, which is a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. L. Paul Bremer was Chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting before returning to government in 2003. Marsh & McLennan had offices in the World Trade Center in the North Tower "above where the second aircraft hit." Bremer was/(is?) a close friend of Rumsfeld.


Dr. Patricia D. Galloway
P.E, CPENG, PMP, MRICS, CFCC
Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Galloway has a very impressive resume, including the following:

...skilled at providing project risk identification, project assessment and analysis, project trend evaluations and risk reduction plans and also provides performance, prudence, and management audits.



Dr. Galloway has extensive international experience having worked on some of the world’s largest projects including many nuclear power plants as well as oil and gas pipelines. She also consulted extensively in transportation infrastructure. She is currently a visiting professor at the Kochi University of Technology (KUT) in Kochi, Japan and has served as a guest professor lecturer at multiple other universities. She is well-known as an arbitrator and in this role has worked for many governments as well as on private industry matters.

http://www.pegasus-global.com/principal ... Resume.pdf


Dr. Kris R. Nielsen
JD, PMP, MRICS, M.JSCE
Chairman and President

Dr. Nielsen has directed and participated in matters covering the total project delivery process in both the energy and infrastructure industries and has worked on behalf of private and public sector clients globally. Dr. Nielsen possesses an extensive background in engineering, construction and project control and management.

Like Ms Galloway, Dr. Nielsen has extensive experience in the nuclear power industry as well as transportation infrastructure, and extensive dispute resolution experience.

(I tried to contact the author of the original article, but there was some sort of "fatal error" and the email wouldn't go through.)

Pegasus Global Holdings (no hyphen)

Pegasus Global Holdings, through its operating subsidiaries and special purpose vehicles, is an international technology development firm. We have demonstrated expertise in defense, security, telecommunications, and Intellectual Property capture.

Pegasus is a recognized leader in telecommunications in North America and Europe. Pegasus is also a U.S. Government authorized prime vendor and manufacturer of defense equipment and technologies. Pegasus has a proven track record as experts in commercializing military technologies for the global marketplace

Expanding IP Portfolio

Granted two U.S. Patents with a third "Pending" in the field of Radio Frequency Suppression [US #7391356 B2 and #7746265] inventing new methods in radio frequency suppression system & applications for military and domestic security - such as:

mounted, dismounted and fixed site RF Suppression to prevent Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device [RC-IED] detonations and disruption of adversary Command & Control communications

Pegasus’ active stakeholders bring project opportunities for development to its Managing Directors (Aerospace, Technology, Defense & Security). If the Managing Directors agree, a budget is established against the project’s goals and opportunities.

What Pegasus Global Holdings has to say about CITE:

(In addition to what has been written in the original article, PGH adds this to the purposes of CITE:)

Benchmark Test & Evaluation Facilities

Green Energy
CITE will provide unique opportunities to drill down into the cost of introducing solar, wind, and Smart Grid technologies in a real world setting to help determine the next steps to success.

Intelligent Transportation Systems
CITE will be home to a transportation highway/road network consisting of both high-speed, urban canyon, suburban and rural roads permitting testing and demonstration of new Intelligent Transportation System technologies.

Homeland Security
Homeland security is a key component of the plan for CITE, which will include a secure testing area for first responder technology with the benefit of proximity to the civil and commercial infrastructure.

Next Generation Wireless Infrastructure
A next-generation wireless infrastructure - terrestrial and satellite - is planned to serve CITE, permitting the development, installation, testing and commercialization of high speed broadband technologies across all sectors of our economy, e.g. energy, transportation and security, as well as extension of such services to under-served communities.

About their defense and security developments, they say:

Their defense sectors include:
Electronic Warfare
C5i; ISR solutions
Net-centric battlefield communications
CBNRE
Counter-Terrorism Communications Technologies
Emergency Medical equipment

http://www.pegasusglobalholdings.com/test-center.html

It seems that there are two different companies, one named "Pegasus-Global Holdings, Inc." and the other called "Pegasus Global Holdings, LLC. " Legally the differences are enough to determine two separate companies, and perhaps the author of the article mistakenly linked to the former, rather than the latter. I still find it strange..... but looking at what we know of the latter company, it definitely fits the profile of what the project seems to be about. Sorry for being so long-winded and if mods think appropriate, I'll delete the rather long post on the former company, which may have been linked to CITE by accident.

The website URL for the project is: http://www.cite-city.com/About_CITE_Cit ... rview.html

From the project website:

CITE Customer Segments

Initially, CITE strives to address the needs of six core customer segments including:

Federal Labs
Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) that conduct research for the US government in energy, transportation, cyber security, smart systems, and other categories

Federal Agencies
Composed of various government agencies with focus on specific research and development initiatives such as energy, transportation, first-responder training, police enforcement scenarios, non-lethal weapons testing, and others

Universities and Research Institutions
Academic institutions, which operate with federal and private funding and have a need for testing and evaluation facilities off-site

Commercial Industries
Global companies from a variety of vertical sectors performing research on new solutions in wireless communications, alternative energy, smart infrastructure, information technology, automated vehicles, robotics, and other technical initiatives

Non-Profits
Organizations supporting research in areas to support humanitarian, socio-economic issues, and disaster relief initiatives

Resources Distributors
Energy or water resource distributors reselling to either commercial or consumer end-users in the New Mexico area

http://www.cite-city.com/Customers/Main ... ments.html

I wonder if this could have any relation to CITE?

Petraeus: CIA Could Use Smart Household Appliances To Spy

Watch out: the CIA may soon be spying on you—through your beloved, intelligent household appliances, according to Wired.

In early March, at a meeting for the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, CIA Director David Petraeus reportedly noted that “smart appliances” connected to the Internet could someday be used by the CIA to track individuals. If your grocery-list-generating refrigerator knows when you’re home, the CIA could, too, by using geo-location data from your wired appliances, according to SmartPlanet.

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More here: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense ... aeus_.html

The original article and other similar announcements seem to say that New Mexico officials planned the project and picked Pegasus Global Holdings to carry out the construction, thus I was looking for the investors who were backing CITE. However that is not the case. Here is how it came into being:


http://www.cite-city.com/About_CITE_Cit ... ement.html