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.

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

2.  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.

3.  Base Realignment and Closure
Combine and close BRAC panel, DoD and
What? “excess” military Who? SecDef recommendations,
installations Congress approval
To increase efficiency, Process should be
Why? reduce operational When? completed by September
expenses 15th, 2011

4.  Personnel relocation in  Personnel relocation in
previous BRAC rounds current BRAC round
100%
more personnel are relocating
in the current BRAC round

5.  The largest base closure and realignment in DoD history
5th 123,000 350
Approximate personnel Installations closed
BRAC since 1988
affected by BRAC 2005 from BRAC since 1988
$35,000,000,000 2015
Next scheduled
DoD cost of BRAC 2005
round of BRAC

6.  Big Winner  Losers
- Maryland - New Jersey
 Other Winners - Alaska
- Virginia - California
- Alabama - District of Columbia
- Texas - Kentucky
- Colorado

7. Aberdeen Proving Ground  Army Ordinance Center and School
Status: Expanding; on schedule - Move to Ft. Lee, VA is complete
Gain: 18,000 jobs  Inflow of 8,200 comm workers
- Most from Ft. Monmouth, NJ did
 Becoming the Army center for choose to relocate
- Others from Redstone Arsenal, AL, Ft.
- Communications, research, and
Huachuca, AZ, Ft. Belvoir, VA
software dev
- Move is 60% complete
- C4ISR, Test and Evaluation, Chem and
Bio Defense  Inflow of 600 T&E workers
 Expect continued influx of - From Alexandria, VA
advanced degree professionals
- Higher salaries Highlight: Estimated 7,500 – 10,000 new
 $1 billion in new construction contractor positions, most still to come
- Still ongoing

8. Ft. Meade - 80% of DISCO, DOHA adjudicators from
Columbus, OH not moving
Status: Expanding; on schedule
- Expect delays getting new clearances
Gain: 27,650 jobs  Construction status
- Three new buildings completed 6/11
 Defense Information Systems
Agency relocation  Incoming workers
- 4,500 from DISA
- 4,500 employees from Arlington, VA
- 750 from CAFs
- Status: Most employees have moved
- 2,400 from Defense Media Activity
- Expect reduction of available IT talent
in northern Virginia - 10-20k from defense contractors
 Central Adjudication Facilities
relocation Highlight: Anne Arundel asking for $5b in
- 10 CAFs moving from various U.S. Federal funds for transportation upgrades
locations
- 250 personnel per month moving

9. Ft. Monroe Marine Corps Base Quantico
Status: Operating; on schedule for Status: Expanding; on schedule
closure Sept 2011 Gain: 2,700 jobs
Loss: 3,564 jobs
 Military Investigative Agencies
 Army Training and Doctrine - Multiple agencies co-locating including
DSS, CIFA, JCTA, NCIS, ACIDC, AFOSI
Command
- 2,700 jobs net gain: 351 military, 1,752
- Status: HQ moved to Ft. Eustis May
civilian, 555 contractor
2011
- Status: Construction of new building
- Moving to other locations in VA, GA, SC
complete
- Limited opportunity to hire BRAC
- Status: Move started April 2011 with
affected workers from Ft. Monroe with
200 workers per week
short Ft. Eustis commute

10. Ft. Lee Mark Center / Alexandria
Status: Expanding; on schedule Status: Expanding; delayed
Gain: 7,800 jobs Gain: 6,400 jobs
 Sustainment Center of Excellence  Personnel movement
- Home to Army transportation, supply, - Most coming from Arlington county
and logistics services - Arlington: top county most negatively
- Status: Construction of new buildings affected by BRAC
completed in 2009 - 13,000 workers moving from Crystal
 Expansion independent of BRAC City by Fall 2011 to various locations
- Ft. Lee adding another 1,000 troops - Rep Moran, Gov McDonnell pushing for
year delay in move; just may get it
- Employers have opportunity to tempt
Highlight: Need logistics and supply workers due to looming commuting
candidates? Target Ft. Lee. issues

11. Ft. Belvoir  Belvoir Community Hospital
Status: Expanding; on schedule - $1b state-of-the-art installation
- Status: On schedule for August opening
Gain: 20,000 jobs (including contractors)
- Expect large increase in medical workers
Loss: 14,500 jobs
 National Geospatial-Intel Agency
- Moving 8,500 cleared employees and
 Personnel movement
contractors from Reston, D.C., Bethesda
- Most coming from Arlington county
- Status: Moved 4,000 employees by May;
- Road improvements fall short 4,500 will be moved by September
 Missile Defense Agency  Army Material Command loss
- 300 employees moving from Arlington - Wide range of cleared workers moving
- 2,250 employees moving to Huntsville to Huntsville: logistics, tech,
- Status: Building on schedule for Summer administrative, policy, finance
- Expect loss of engineering talent - Status: Move to be complete Aug 2011
(software, test, integration) to
Huntsville

12. Redstone Arsenal  Redstone hiring status
Status: Expanding; on schedule - 4,651 government jobs transferred
- 3,112 jobs filled as of mid-June
Gain: 10,000 jobs (including contractors)
- 57% were filled by workers who moved
to Huntsville
 Missile Defense Agency
- 2,250 D.C. metro employees moving
- Expect influx of engineering talent
(software, test, integration) Highlight: Contractor jobs could add as
many as 12,000 new jobs in the near future
 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

13. Ft. Bliss Joint Base San Antonio
Status: Expanding; on schedule Status: Expanding; on schedule
Gain: 16,000 jobs (excluding contractors) Gain: 12,500 jobs (excluding contractors)
 Marked base growth  Consolidation of Ft. Sam Houston,
- Received 1st Armored Division from Lackland AFB, and Randolph AFB
current location in Germany - Medical Education facility completed
- Move completed May 2011 spring 2011
- Fastest growing Army base in the U.S. - Becoming the world’s largest medical
- Will grow by 16k troops and 400 civilian training campus
jobs by 2012, and 21k troops by 2013 - Significant upgrades to Brooke Army
- $4.6b in construction through early 2012 Medical Center on schedule
- $3.7b new economic impact by 2013 - 181k sq ft medical research facility
- Huge construction = continued completed April 2011
contractor need for IT, facilities, and
security personnel

14. Ft. Carson - Incoming helicopter brigade = increase
of 2,700 soldiers by 2013
Status: Expanding; on schedule
- Considering base expansion into nearby
Gain: 4,300 jobs (including contractors) Pueblo to accommodate
 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