Major Aerospace & Defense Employers in Maryland Employer Employment Product / Service       

• Fort George G. Meade 54,000 Military installation; intelligence

• Aberdeen Proving Ground 21,000 Military installation

• Joint Base Andrews Naval Air Facility Washington 17,500 Military installation

• Naval Air Station Patuxent River 11,725 Military installation

• Northrop Grumman 10,365 Electronic systems Fort Detrick 6,400 Military installation

• Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 5,545 R&D systems engineering

• Lockheed Martin 3,255 Aerospace and electronics

• NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center 3,000 Space research

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. 2,900 Monitoring and research

• Leidos 2,595 National security, health and engineering services

• Booz Allen Hamilton 2,100 IT services and systems engineering