The region pulled in more than $18 billion in Pentagon funding during fiscal 2023.
In Oct. 2024, the General Dynamics-NASSCO shipyard in Barrio Logan was busy building three Navy auxiliary ships and doing assembly work on two others. San Diego County had the nation’s largest defense industry workforce in fiscal 2023, with nearly 113,000 people serving as everything from sailors and Marines to civilian ship repair welders to engineers who design next-generation drones, according to a new U.S.
The civilian and military workforce in Coronado is so large many residents avoid driving near Naval Air Station North Island between 2:30 and 4 p.m. on weekdays, when thousands of workers head home for the day. The flow causes backups all the way to the San Diego-Coronado Bridge. “Not only does San Diego have an important role with the DoD in terms of personnel and spending, that spending supports a large portion of the local economy,” he added.
Sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt stand at attention while crewing the rails on their arrival into San Diego Bay. The Roosevelt is returning back to NAS North Island after a nine-month deployment. Many San Diego-based destroyers have or will be outfitted with the latest version of the Tomahawk land attack missile , which cost $2.4 million apiece, the Navy says.
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