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{{Organization
|OrganizationName=Kansas City National Security Campus
|OrganizationType=Government Corporations (Sub-organization)
|Mission=KCNSC supports the U.S. nuclear deterrent by manufacturing and procuring non-nuclear components for nuclear weapons, ensuring their safety, security, and reliability, and providing technical services in support of national defense.
|ParentOrganization=National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), U.S. Department of Energy
|Employees=7000
|Budget=$1.366 billion [2025 FY]
|OrganizationExecutive=Manager
|Services=Manufacturing Non-Nuclear Components; Technical Services; Environmental Testing; Simulation and Analysis
|HeadquartersLocation=38.86349, -94.55291
|HeadquartersAddress=14520 Botts Road, Kansas City, MO 64147
|Website=https://kcnsc.doe.gov
}}
The '''Kansas City National Security Campus''' ('''KCNSC'''), formerly known as the '''Kansas City Plant''', is a [[National Nuclear Security Administration]] (NNSA) facility managed and operated by [[Honeywell|Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies]] that manufactures "80 percent of non-nuclear components that go into [[US nuclear arsenal|the [United States] nuclear stockpile]]."<ref>{{cite Q|Q102105526}}<!-- Nuclear Security Mission -->.</ref>

The plant produces non-nuclear mechanical, electronic, and engineered material components for U.S. national defense systems such as high-energy laser ignition systems, microwave hybrid microcircuit production, and miniature electromechanical devices. It also provides technical services such as metallurgical/mechanical analysis, analytical chemistry, environmental testing, nondestructive testing, computer-based training, simulations and analysis, and technical certification.

==History==
The plant traces its history to the [[Pratt & Whitney]] plant dedicated by then Senator Harry S. Truman in 1942, which manufactured [[Pratt & Whitney R-2800|Double Wasp]] engines during [[World War II]]. In 1949 the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] commissioned the [[Bendix Corporation]] (specifically, the [[Bendix Aviation Corporation]]) to build the non-nuclear components of nuclear warheads there.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://honeywell.com/sites/aero-kcp/About-Us/Pages/mission-history.aspx |title=Mission & History – Kansas City Plant |publisher=Honeywell |access-date=August 16, 2014 }}</ref> Bendix became [[AlliedSignal]] in 1983 and eventually [[Honeywell]] in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://kcnsc.doe.gov/missions/history|title=About Us – Honeywell History |publisher=Honeywell.com |access-date=August 16, 2014 }}</ref> Workers at the site are represented by the [[International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers]] (IAMAW).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Bischak |first=Greg |editor-last1=Dumas |editor-first1=Lloyd J. |editor-last2=Thee |editor-first2=Marek |encyclopedia=Making Peace Possible: The Promise of Economic Conversion |title=Facing the Second Generation of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: Renewal of the Nuclear Production Base or Economic Conversion? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brijBQAAQBAJ |access-date=March 20, 2022 |date=1989 |publisher=Pergamon Press |series=Peace Research Monograph |volume=19 |isbn=0-08-037252X |page=118 }}</ref>

==Kansas City National Security Campus==
[[File:New KC Plant (9408178675).jpg|thumb|Kansas City National Security Campus, 14520 Botts Road, Kansas City, Missouri]]

In 2014, the Kansas City Plant moved to the renamed Kansas City National Security Campus, a state-of-art facility including manufacturing, laboratory, office, and warehouse space. The move saves the government about $100 million annually in operating costs and cut energy consumption by more than 50 percent.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://honeywell.com/sites/aero-kcp/News-Events/Pages/NSCmove.aspx|title=National Security Campus move is under way |publisher=Honeywell.com |access-date=January 30, 2013 }}</ref>

The smaller, more efficient facility maintains the capability to assure the reliability, safety, and security of the nation's nuclear deterrent while enabling [[National Nuclear Security Administration|NNSA]] to recruit and retain the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Initially announced in 2009, the [[General Services Administration]] announced that Zimmer Real Estate Services and [[CenterPoint Properties]] had won a bid to build the replacement plant. The site, adjacent to the former [[Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base]] in south Kansas City near [[Grandview, Missouri]]. Zimmer and CenterPoint already owned the [[CenterPoint Intermodal Center]] across the street. The creative ownership method works this way: a government authority (the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority) owns the land and improvements and leases the project to CPZ Holding LLC. CPZ Holding subleases it to CenterPoint Zimmer LLC, which sub-subleases it to the government. Upon expiration of the government authority's lease, CPZ Holding will own the project.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://emma.msrb.org/EA390871-EA307158-EA702835.pdf |title=Tax-Exempt Infrastructure Bonds (NNSA National Security Campus Project-MoDOT Funded Transportation Improvements) Series 2010 |website=Emma.MSRB.org |page=13 }}</ref> Financing for the $750+ million project cost was structured and provided by CGA Capital.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://siteselection.com/ssinsider/incentive/Nuclear-Family.cfm|title=A Nuclear Family Updates Its Home: A complex sale-leaseback is at the heart of a new Kansas City campus from the National Nuclear Security Administration. &#124; Site Selection Online|website=Site Selection}}</ref> In March 2017 affiliates of CGA Capital acquired all of the interests of and in CPZ Holding from CenterPoint Properties and its partners, and will own the project upon expiration of the government authority's lease.

[[HNTB Architecture]] designed the campus, Gibbens Drake Scott Inc. designed the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing features, which consist of 1.5 million rentable square feet on the northwest corner of [[Missouri Highway 150]] and Botts Road on the north edge of Richards-Gebaur.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/regions/NNSA_Developer.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - Release _EMBARGO_.doc |access-date=March 15, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308025545/http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/regions/NNSA_Developer.pdf |archive-date=March 8, 2012 }}</ref>

The developers pay more than $5 million a year in lieu of property taxes. Half is used to retire the debt service on $40 million worth of public infrastructure improvements and half funds local tax agencies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/04/06/daily14.html |title=GSA picks CenterPoint, Zimmer for $500M plant – Kansas City Business Journal |website=KansasCity.BizJournals.com |date=April 7, 2009 |access-date=March 15, 2010 }}</ref>

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==External links==
* {{Official website}}

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