ARLINGTON, Va. – HITT Contracting has retained Commercial Window Shield for a multi-faceted security and privacy window film installation project at U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Pentagon City.
The security window film component of the project involves installing 8-mil clear fragment retention film on all the glass on the first floor of the west building, which houses the DEA Museum & Visitors Center.
The decorative film component calls for installing privacy film on all the office fronts, conference rooms and partition glass in both buildings that comprise the DEA campus.
A third component of the project involves installing radio frequency shielding film on the windows on one floor of one of the buildings. The film, also known as RF film, prevents electronic eavesdropping and theft of classified information from computers and cell phones by hackers through window glass. [The federal government identifies building space that requires RF film protection as a SCIF area, or a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.]
The 12-story buildings, known as Lincoln Place I and II, are currently being renovated by HITT as part of a 15-year lease renewal agreement between GSA and the buildings’ owner, Clarion Partners. DEA, with more than 3,000 employees, will occupy more than 500,000 sq. feet of space in the two buildings.
Commercial Window Shield will begin the shatter resistant window film installation project in the west building this month. The decorative window film project, which involves installing a band of frosted privacy film across the glass, will begin in the spring. DEA employees currently are being housed elsewhere during the buildings’ renovation.
HITT, one of the country’s leading general contractors, has partnered with Commercial Window Shield on numerous security window film and privacy film installation projects.
Commercial Window Shield, the country’s most experienced security window film and privacy film installer, has been installing window film on some of the country’s most iconic buildings for nearly 40 years. Their work can be seen on the U.S. Capitol, all House of Representative and Library of Congress buildings, Pentagon, FBI headquarters, Grand Central Terminal, Merrill Lynch headquarters, O’Hare International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Willis Tower [former Sears Tower], the United Nations, and the Philadelphia and Denver mints.
