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HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE

Posted 5/14/2013 Printable Fact Sheet

Hanscom's host unit is the 66th Air Base Group, which is part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The men and women of the 66th Air Base Group provide outstanding services to more than 3,000 active duty, Reserve and National Guard military personnel and DoD civilians who work and live at Hanscom Air Force Base. Additionally, they support more than 125,000 retired military personnel, annuitants and spouses living in the six-state New England area and New York.

Hanscom by the Numbers

Economic Impact
Total Estimated Economic Impact: approximately $6.2 billion

- Primary Hanscom Jobs - 5,500+
- *Secondary Jobs Created - 14,500+

FY 11 Contract Expenditures - $5.6 billion

FY 11 Active Duty Payroll - $203 million
FY 11 Reservist Payroll - $1.7 million
FY 11 DoD Civilian Payroll - $346 million
(includes salary and benefits)

Base Demographics
Total Workforce - 5,828
- Active Duty - 922
- Reservists - 92
- DoD Civilian - 2,037
- Non-DoD Civilian - 577
- Contractor - 2,200

Facilities
Acreage - 846 acres
Square Feet of Space - 4.04 million
Other Buildings - 149

Privatized Housing
732 homes

Occupancy breakout:
- Air Force - 53 percent
- Army - 19 percent
- Coast Guard - 8 percent
- Marines - 6 percent
- DoD Civilians - 6 percent
- Navy - 5 percent
- Retired military - 2 percent
- National Guard - 0.4 percent
- Reserve - 0.4 percent

Massachusetts National Guard Joint Force Headquarters
The new Massachusetts National Guard Joint Force Headquarters, an administrative complex to support state and federal missions required of the state's National Guard, became operational Nov. 5, 2012.  

For further information, visit www.ma.ng.mil.

* Data on the number of secondary, or indirect, jobs from Hanscom was taken from "An Economic Contribution Analysis and Overview of Masschusetts Military Instillations" from UMass Donahue Institute Economic and Public Policy Research.


(Numbers cited are current as of May 2013)







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