INTRODUCTION
The
following narrative sections describe the publication entitled Department
of Defense Atlas/Data Abstract for the United States and Selected Areas.
The information presented through the Internet presents the Atlas
publication in manageable components, suitable for electronic browsing.
Additional historical and graphical data, extracted from previous editions of
the Atlas, are also included in the electronic offering.
While the following
sections describe in detail information associated with the Atlas,
two key changes introduced with the 2005 edition of the Atlas
must be noted: 1) prior to 2005, procurement data were only reported for
contract awards with obligations exceeding $25,000 - as of 2005 all contract
dollars are accounted for, and 2) prior to 2005, active duty military strength
data for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Service members were only enumerated for
those who were shore-based; members who were not shore-based (afloat) did have
their payroll included in the payroll outlay figures for their home port. In
areas with significant concentrations of Navy/Marine Corps military personnel
such as Norfolk (VA), Virginia Beach (VA), Groton (CT), Jacksonville (FL),
Pearl Harbor (HI) and San Diego (CA), the payroll amount shown may have
appeared to be excessive for the number of military personnel shown at the
location (city/state), when in fact, there were thousands of Service members
deployed at sea (afloat), who were not reported in the city/state military
personnel count. Beginning with 2005 Service members in afloat status are
included in the strength counts of their homeport locations.
Another significant change
occurred in 2007. The Department of
Defense transitioned from the Defense Contract Action Data System (DCADS) used
for FY06 and prior contract data, to the Federal Procurement Data System - Next
Generation (FPDS – NG), which was used to obtain contract data from FY07
onward. As a result, the discrete
reporting of Civil Functions contracts has been discontinued because these
contracts are no long identified in FPDS – NG as a separate contract type.
BACKGROUND
From
1955 to 1982, the Department of Defense (DoD) published the Map Book of
Major Military Installations. This book gave DoD managers a convenient
reference to locate major military installations in the
ATLAS
The Atlas/Data
Abstract for the United States and Selected Areas includes information
on DoD military and civilian
work force strength levels, payroll outlays, grants, and prime contracts, by
state and the District of Columbia (DC).
In the first set of tables,
personnel and expenditure totals are displayed for DoD, Army, Navy and Marine Corps, Air Force, and
Other Defense Activities. The personnel part of this set contains a breakdown
of active duty military, civilian, and Reserve and National Guard for the fifty
states and DC. The expenditures part of this set is broken down by payroll
outlays, grants, and prime contracts, and subsets of these categories as
applicable.
In the next set of tables,
the top ten major locations of expenditures and personnel are shown in descending
order. These locations are depicted on the maps on the corresponding facing
pages. These tables are not included in the selected foreign countries since
location information is not collected.
In
the remaining two tables, contract awards for the last seven fiscal years and
the top ten contractors are depicted for each state or country.
COVERAGE
The
information in the Atlas pertains to the Department of Defense,
which includes the Departments of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and the category
"Other Defense Activities" (ODA). This category includes the Office
of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Inspector General (DoD), U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Armed Forces, Defense Agencies and the Defense Field Activities. All
information shown is as of September 30, 2008.
PERSONNEL
Personnel data include
total active duty military, direct hire civilian, and Reserve and National
Guard for the fifty states and DC.
Active Duty Military
The active duty military
personnel counts include those based ashore and as of 2005 include those
temporarily shore-based and in afloat status.
Reserve/National Guard personnel called to active duty under Title 10,
United States Code 12304, are not included in the active duty military
personnel counts.
There are a few cases where
personnel are reported by the parent installation and shown there instead of
their actual operating location. There are also cases where personnel on
temporary duty as of September 30, 2008, are reported at the installation where
they are temporarily assigned. In using this publication, please be aware that
cases such as the foregoing can occur.
Considerable improvements
in assignment of location codes for Army payroll reporting were made for this
Fiscal Year. As a result, Army payroll
amounts may reflect changes in location and dollars that are notably different
from the prior fiscal year.
Civilian
Included in the Atlas
are
Although personnel assigned
to military functions account for more than 96% of the DoD civilian work force,
we have included strength data on civilian personnel involved in civil
functions of the
Reserve and National
Guard
The Reserve and National
Guard personnel figures include only the Ready Reserve, which consists of the
Selected Reserve, the Individual Ready Reserve, and the Inactive National
Guard. Personnel in the Selected Reserve are distributed to the capital city of
the state in which their duty is performed. Personnel in the Individual Ready
Reserve and Inactive National Guard are distributed according to capital city
of their state of residence.
EXPENDITURES
The expenditures in the Atlas
are not all inclusive.
Payroll Outlays
For civilians, active duty
military, and reserves, payroll outlays represent the gross earnings of these
personnel for services rendered to the Government and cash allowances for
benefits. Excluded from these outlays are the employer's share of employee
benefits, accrued military retirement benefits, and most of the permanent
change of station costs. Payroll outlays for retired military, including reserves,
represent the direct compensation to those personnel.
For purposes of this
publication, payroll outlays have been allocated, to the best of our ability,
to the actual location of the person being compensated. In most cases, the outlays
are actual payroll calculations at the location of the personnel being
compensated. In some cases, the outlays have been prorated from a central
paying office to remote locations. In other cases where it is not possible to
prorate, the outlays are reported at the location of the finance office issuing
the checks. This could mean, for example, that military and civilian pay for
the same installation may be reported at different locations if they are paid
by different finance offices. Also, payroll outlays for military personnel who
are temporarily shore-based or afloat are reported at their homeport.
Therefore, in using this publication, please be aware that anomalies of these
types can occur.
Army military data contains
information for active duty, reserve personnel serving on active duty, and Army
National Guard personnel serving on active duty and receiving pay commensurate
with their active status. The
information is aggregated as a 'snapshot' at the end of the fiscal year and
represents the best available information based on the pay being received by
personnel in this status.
Prime Contracts
Prime contract awards
include obligations for all contract actions that can be distributed to a
specific location. In reporting contract
awards, there can be deobligations (credit actions) as well as obligations
(debit actions). An example of this would be where a contract had to be
terminated. Although rare, this can result in a net credit for a particular
location in a given fiscal year, but will be a positive result over time. Net
credits are shown as negative amounts. Similarly, the amount of prime contract
dollars for a major area of work can exceed the total amount for a given prime
contractor. This occurs when there is a large deobligation on another contract
for the same contractor.
Prime contracts are
generally reported at the location where the work is performed. For example, if
a contractor is located in
Grants
Included
under the "Grants" expenditure category, introduced with the 1995
edition of the Atlas, are financial data related to obligations
of funds by grants, cooperative agreements, or other nonprocurement
instruments. Obligations of any dollar value are listed at the location
reported as the place of performance.
MAPS (check the 1999
edition of the Atlas for the last state map updates - no longer current)
The maps are displayed on
the facing pages of the statistical tables and show where major payroll, grant,
and contract expenditures are incurred and major concentrations of military and
civilian personnel are located, or both. Locations are included if they show
major expenditures for the current year, or any one year in the past three
years. Also included are all major military installations, regardless of
expenditures or numbers of personnel, with the exception of public works
centers and installations dedicated to reserve activities, unless expenditures
or numbers of personnel caused these activities to be listed as major
installations. To reduce congestion on the
Beginning
with the 1993 edition of the Atlas, major military installations
within the