BRAC will bring 1,500 new jobs to Hartford County, Maryland

A long-awaited military relocation program is moving forward in Maryland.

Since it was announced, the national military base realignment and closure process has taken five years to bring new jobs and offices to Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, reported the Baltimore Sun. Now the U.S. Army is ready to transfer 1,500 military workers to the base in Hartford County, Maryland in August and September.

More jobs are expected to follow as additional businesses open offices in the area. Defense contractor ManTech International will offer about 300 to 500 new positions in a building now under construction in nearby Belcamp, said the Sun. Once the Army makes another similar transfer next year to Fort Meade, the two bases will employ a combined 14,000 government employees and contractors, said the paper.

"It's a real boom situation at a time when there's not a lot of boom in most places," the proving ground's public affairs officer, George Mercer, told the Sun.

The BRAC program was instituted in 2005 as a way for the Department of Defense to change its infrastructure to maximize personnel and resources, according to the Army.

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