Harford County Home Owners to Multiply with BRAC Jobs

Harford County homeowners are beginning to increase with the new BRAC jobs in Baltimore. The Army is transferring almost 1500 jobs in August and September to this area of the state. The new jobs will have a wonderful effect on the economy and they are finally coming after being talked about for so long. The Harford County homeowners are glad to see the new jobs show up as this area was experiencing the same economic problems as the rest of the country. BRAC jobs in Baltimore are expected to increase by about 300 to 500 by 2013 in addition to the 50 that have already been moved here.

The national military base alignment and closure (BRAC) is responsible for the many jobs that have already been transferred to Harford County in 2005. The ones that are following in the near future will double the jobs that have moved here since then.

This is expected to continue into the next year when BRAC will also transfer jobs to Fort Meade. The amount is expected to be from 150 to 200 jobs weekly from January to July. The combination of the these two bases in the Baltimore area will have about 14,000 BRAC related jobs in government. Approximately 12,000 are supposed to be forthcoming.

In addition to these jobs the next several years are expected to bring possibly 20,000 contractor jobs that would operate off-base and more jobs will be spinning off the ones already here. Child care centers and other services due to the demand created by the new jobs will be additional services needed. The construction industry will also be expanded as the need for more homes and offices are expected to be another result of the jobs.

This is expected to continue for several years but as yet the entire result of this move is not known. Government contractors are also readying themselves. Approximately 1100 of the jobs that are being transferred in August and September to Aberdeen Proving Ground are expected to be civilian jobs. The Army believes about ¾ of these jobs will be unfilled when transferred.

This is certainly good news for the state of Maryland, who presently has an unemployment rate of 7.2%, with 215,000 unemployed. When the moves were first announced five years ago the unemployment rate in Maryland was only 4.2%.

The Defense Information Systems Agency in preparing for the move held a job fair in the spring. Over 7,000 people were in attendance. The state is preparing for the jobs as well by getting grants to the 2 and 4 year colleges to help implement programs that will train students in the type of job openings that are being moved to Harford County and keeping up with changes to these positions.

Vision Technologies announced this month that their company had the winning bid of $5.3 million to install the fiber-optic cable and copper needed by BRAC at Aberdeen. This contract will allow Vision Technologies to hire 60 more people. In addition, empty office spaces are beginning to fill up and one office developer has already reported that 75% of their office space is rented to BRAC-related tenants.

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