The Hanscom Air Force Base host unit is the 66th Air Base Group, part of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The men and women of the 66th Air Base Group secure, support, and sustain more than 10,000 active duty, Reserve and National Guard military personnel and Department of Defense civilians and contractors at Hanscom Air Force Base. Additionally, personnel support approximately 130,000 retired military and annuitants living in the six-state New England and New York area.
Hanscom Air Force Base is also home to five Air Force Program Executive Offices (PEOs): The PEO for Cyber & Networks; PEO for Electronic Systems; the Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) PEO; the Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (C3BM) PEO; and the Presidential & Executive Airlift PEO.
PEO Cyber & Networks directorate is responsible for more than 2,600 personnel and acquisition execution of a $15.1 billion portfolio developing, producing, deploying, and sustaining Department of the Air Force joint and coalition cyberspace capabilities, aerial and terrestrial networks, cryptologic systems, electronic warfare, data weaponization, kill chain technologies and integration, information technology infrastructure, software platforms and factories, cloud services, combat communications, force protection systems, data link systems, and special projects to enable decisive combat operations.
The PEO for Electronic Systems leads more than 1,800 Airmen, government civilians and support contractors in the acquisition execution of a $11.3 billion Future Years Defense Program portfolio of ACAT, non-ACAT, technology transition and Foreign Military Sales programs.
The PEO for Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) executes a portfolio of 29 programs valued at $14 billion over the FYDP that provide survivable and endurable communications for the Department of the Air Force's nuclear enterprise. Additionally, the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center's NC3 Integration Directorate is responsible for integrating thousands of individual NC3 systems and subsystems that support and enable nuclear deterrent operations.
The Program Executive Office for Presidential & Executive Airlift headquartered at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio is a significant presence at Hanscom AFB. The Survivable Airborne Operations Division is located at Hanscom AFB that works to acquire a replacement Weapon System for the E-4B, National Airborne Operations Center. The E-4B NAOC is a key component of the National Military Command System for the President, the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In addition, Hanscom AFB hosts other units, including the Massachusetts National Guard Joint Force Headquarters.
Hanscom AFB by the Numbers
Economic Impact:
* Total Economic Impact - $6.03 billion
FY16 Contract Expenditures - $4 billion
Total Gross Salary - $395 million
Total Employment
Total Workforce - 10,306
- Active Duty - 899
- Massachusetts National Guard - 400
- Life Cycle Management Center Civilians - 1,743
- DOD Civilians - 555
- Non-Appropriated Fund Civilians - 170
- Non-DOD Civilian - 92
- Contractors - 2,208
- MIT Lincoln Lab - 4,058
* Secondary Jobs Created - 10,050
Facilities
Acreage - 846 acres
Square Feet of Space - 4 million
Other Buildings - 155
Privatized Housing
731 Homes
Occupancy Breakout:
- Air Force - 41 percent
- Army - 19 percent
- Coast Guard - 13 percent
- Marines - 6.5 percent
- DOD Civilians - 8.5 percent
- Navy - 6 percent
- Retired military - 5 percent
- National Guard - 0.5 percent
- Reserve - 0.5 percent
Massachusetts National Guard Joint Force Headquarters
For further information, visit https://www.massnationalguard.org/.
* Data on the total economic impact and number of secondary, or indirect, jobs from Hanscom AFB was taken from "An Economic Contribution Analysis and Overview of Massachusetts Military Installations" from UMass Donahue Institute Economic and Public Policy Research.
(Editor's note: Salary and employment data current as of April 2021.)