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Defense activity helps safeguard region's 'vitality': one in four county jobs is military-related, new study says.

Publication: San Diego Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-AUG-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Pentagon spending in San Diego County has increased an estimated 22 percent in the past three years to reach $15.5 billion, according to results of a study by a local defense contracting group released Aug. 19.

In the years ahead, San Diego can expect the military to add to that figure, said Jesse Atkinson, project director for the study and director of the Export Access group from UC San Diego at the time the report was put together.

Though the San Diego job market has stagnated in the last 16 months, the Pentagon has served as a...

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