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- As the preceding graph shows, the Department of Defense (DoD) employed 209,857 people in Virginia in fiscal year (FY) 2006. In addition to this number, the state has more than 36,000 who are part- or full-time Reserver or National Guard.
- In FY 2006, DoD
active duty employment increased slightly over FY 2005, and civilian employment remained basically the same.
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In FY 2005, the DoD began to include Navy and Marine Corps military personnel
afloat as part of their numbers, resulting in the jump shown after FY 2004.
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- The
Commonwealth's total civilian and military
employment grew a modest 1.8 percent in FY 2006.
- Nationally, there was little change overall.
- Again, the addition of 42,000
Navy and Marine Corps military personnel
afloat added to the DoD's reporting accounts for FY 2005 accounts for the large jump shown.
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- The
Navy, in combination with the Marine Corps,
is the largest service branch in Virginia,
accounting for more than 60 percent of total
DoD employment.
- Army
employment accounts for over 20 percent
of total DoD employment.
- Other, non-branch specific, defense activities account for about 10 percent of total DoD employment.
- Air
Force employment accounts for less than
10 percent of total DoD employment. All
but a few hundred of the Air Force’s
employment is in Hampton Roads and Northern
Virginia, with over 58 percent at Langley
AFB.
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- Virginia ranks first in the nation for overall DoD employment and civilian DoD employment, and second for active duty employment. California, a state nearly five-times as large, takes a slight advantage when Reserve and National Guard troops are included.
- Nearly 6 percent of Virginia's workforce is DoD.
- The
top ten states for total DoD
employment account for nearly 63% of
nationwide defense employment.
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- The Hampton Roads
area contains the largest share by far, 59 percent, of
Virginia’s DoD employment.
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Northern Virginia, home to the Pentagon,
accounts for 25 percent of the state’s Department
of Defense employment.
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- Virginia
accounted for more than $46 billion of aggregate
DoD expenditures in FY
2006, a close second to California.
- On a per capita basis, Virginia is second only to the District of Columbia.
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- 63 percent of the $46 billion that the DoD spent in Virginia in FY 2006 was for contracts. Another 36 percent was for payroll, and the remainder was money granted by the DoD for a variety of programs.
- Virginia receives the highest amount of DoD spending on payroll ($16.7 billion) in the nation, and was second only to California for contracts ($29.2 billion to $32.1 billion).
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- DoD
spent nearly $5 billion in Norfolk in FY 2005,
making it the location with the single largest
share of DoD expenditures in Virginia.
- The Hampton Roads area and Northern Virginia, not surprinsingly, account for a majority of DoD spending in the Commonwealth.
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Other locations, not listed here, account
for an additional $17.9 billion in expenditures
throughout Virginia.
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Directory
of Federal
& State Assistance
Assistance is available for those affected by base closings and realignments.
Please click
here to view Sources of Help for Communities, Companies
and Individuals Affected by BRAC 2005.
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The
Virginia National Defense Industrial Authority - Advocates for
the Nation's Military in Virginia. Click
here for a PDF brochure. Print quality resolution available by request.
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