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BRAC Update 2005-2011 A Shift in the Security-Cleared Hiring Landscape

BRAC 2005 - 2011 (Base Realignment and Closure)

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BRAC 2005 is the largest base realignment and closure in DoD history. Over 100,00 military personnel will be relocated. Installations like Fort Meade, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Belvoir, Fort Bliss, Fort Carson, and other installations in Maryland and Virginia.

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BRAC Update 2005-2011

A Shift in the Security-Cleared Hiring Landscape

Provide updated, current status on BRAC, by major location

Provide details that could affect hiring

Provide details that could signal opportunities to defense industry employers

Note: This BRAC 2005 update information has been gathered from multiple sources including the U.S.

military. Due to the ongoing BRAC process actual numbers and status may vary.

When?

What?

Why?

Who? Combine and close “excess” military installations

To increase efficiency, reduce operational expenses

BRAC panel, DoD and SecDef recommendations, Congress approval

Process should be completed by September 15th, 2011

Base Realignment and Closure

Personnel relocation in previous BRAC rounds

Personnel relocation in current BRAC round

100% more personnel are relocating

in the current BRAC round

The largest base closure and realignment in DoD history

5th BRAC since 1988

$35,000,000,000 DoD cost of BRAC 2005

123,000 Approximate personnel affected by BRAC 2005

2015 Next scheduled round of BRAC

350 Installations closed

from BRAC since 1988

Big Winner

- Maryland

Other Winners

- Virginia

- Alabama

- Texas

- Colorado

Losers

- New Jersey

- Alaska

- California

- District of Columbia

- Kentucky

Aberdeen Proving Ground

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 18,000 jobs

Becoming the Army center for - Communications, research, and

software dev

- C4ISR, Test and Evaluation, Chem and Bio Defense

Expect continued influx of advanced degree professionals

- Higher salaries

$1 billion in new construction - Still ongoing

Army Ordinance Center and School - Move to Ft. Lee, VA is complete

Inflow of 8,200 comm workers - Most from Ft. Monmouth, NJ did

choose to relocate

- Others from Redstone Arsenal, AL, Ft. Huachuca, AZ, Ft. Belvoir, VA

- Move is 60% complete

Inflow of 600 T&E workers - From Alexandria, VA

Highlight: Estimated 7,500 – 10,000 new contractor positions, most still to come

Ft. Meade

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 27,650 jobs

Defense Information Systems Agency relocation

- 4,500 employees from Arlington, VA

- Status: Most employees have moved

- Expect reduction of available IT talent in northern Virginia

Central Adjudication Facilities relocation

- 10 CAFs moving from various U.S. locations

- 250 personnel per month moving

- 80% of DISCO, DOHA adjudicators from Columbus, OH not moving

- Expect delays getting new clearances

Construction status - Three new buildings completed 6/11

Incoming workers - 4,500 from DISA

- 750 from CAFs

- 2,400 from Defense Media Activity

- 10-20k from defense contractors

Highlight: Anne Arundel asking for $5b in Federal funds for transportation upgrades

Ft. Monroe

Status: Operating; on schedule for closure Sept 2011

Loss: 3,564 jobs

Army Training and Doctrine Command

- Status: HQ moved to Ft. Eustis May 2011

- Moving to other locations in VA, GA, SC

- Limited opportunity to hire BRAC affected workers from Ft. Monroe with short Ft. Eustis commute

Marine Corps Base Quantico

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 2,700 jobs

Military Investigative Agencies - Multiple agencies co-locating including

DSS, CIFA, JCTA, NCIS, ACIDC, AFOSI

- 2,700 jobs net gain: 351 military, 1,752 civilian, 555 contractor

- Status: Construction of new building complete

- Status: Move started April 2011 with 200 workers per week

Ft. Lee

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 7,800 jobs

Sustainment Center of Excellence - Home to Army transportation, supply,

and logistics services

- Status: Construction of new buildings completed in 2009

Expansion independent of BRAC - Ft. Lee adding another 1,000 troops

Mark Center / Alexandria

Status: Expanding; delayed

Gain: 6,400 jobs

Personnel movement - Most coming from Arlington county

- Arlington: top county most negatively affected by BRAC

- 13,000 workers moving from Crystal City by Fall 2011 to various locations

- Rep Moran, Gov McDonnell pushing for year delay in move; just may get it

- Employers have opportunity to tempt workers due to looming commuting issues

Highlight: Need logistics and supply candidates? Target Ft. Lee.

Ft. Belvoir

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 20,000 jobs (including contractors)

Loss: 14,500 jobs

Personnel movement - Most coming from Arlington county

- Road improvements fall short

Missile Defense Agency - 300 employees moving from Arlington

- 2,250 employees moving to Huntsville

- Status: Building on schedule for Summer

- Expect loss of engineering talent (software, test, integration) to Huntsville

Belvoir Community Hospital - $1b state-of-the-art installation

- Status: On schedule for August opening

- Expect large increase in medical workers

National Geospatial-Intel Agency - Moving 8,500 cleared employees and

contractors from Reston, D.C., Bethesda

- Status: Moved 4,000 employees by May; 4,500 will be moved by September

Army Material Command loss - Wide range of cleared workers moving

to Huntsville: logistics, tech, administrative, policy, finance

- Status: Move to be complete Aug 2011

Redstone Arsenal

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 10,000 jobs (including contractors)

Missile Defense Agency - 2,250 D.C. metro employees moving

- Expect influx of engineering talent (software, test, integration)

Army Materiel Command - Personnel from Ft. Belvoir moving

- Status: Move to be complete Aug 2011

- Wide range of cleared workers: logistics, tech, administrative, policy, finance

Redstone hiring status - 4,651 government jobs transferred

- 3,112 jobs filled as of mid-June

- 57% were filled by workers who moved to Huntsville

Highlight: Contractor jobs could add as many as 12,000 new jobs in the near future

Ft. Bliss

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 16,000 jobs (excluding contractors)

Marked base growth - Received 1st Armored Division from

current location in Germany

- Move completed May 2011

- Fastest growing Army base in the U.S.

- Will grow by 16k troops and 400 civilian jobs by 2012, and 21k troops by 2013

- $4.6b in construction through early 2012

- $3.7b new economic impact by 2013

- Huge construction = continued contractor need for IT, facilities, and security personnel

Joint Base San Antonio

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 12,500 jobs (excluding contractors)

Consolidation of Ft. Sam Houston, Lackland AFB, and Randolph AFB

- Medical Education facility completed spring 2011

- Becoming the world’s largest medical training campus

- Significant upgrades to Brooke Army Medical Center on schedule

- 181k sq ft medical research facility completed April 2011

Ft. Carson

Status: Expanding; on schedule

Gain: 4,300 jobs (including contractors)

Personnel gains - Gaining 3,800 infantry from brigades in

Korea and Texas

- Gaining 2,700 in 2013 from soldier combat aviation brigade (not BRAC related)

Local economic impact - $2.1b in FY2010

- $700m in new construction starting FY2012

- Ft. Carson now 2nd largest employer in the state of Colorado

- Incoming helicopter brigade = increase of 2,700 soldiers by 2013

- Considering base expansion into nearby Pueblo to accommodate