Dayton Region Federal Installations
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, the Springfield Air National Guard Base, and the Dayton VA Medical Center call the Dayton Region home.
Southwest Ohio’s premier federal installations account for more than $19 billion in regional economic activity annually and employ more than 103,000 people. This includes active duty, guard and reserve military members, federal civilians and government contractors. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is the largest single-site employer in the State of Ohio and headquarters to some of the Air Force’s largest missions.
What makes the Dayton Region such a powerful economic engine for defense-related businesses? Start with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, one of the largest, most diverse and organizationally complex Air Force installations in the world. Add the Springfield Air National Guard Base, which is focused on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for the federal and state governments. Amplifying these assets is the Air Force’s commitment to define the region as the national center of excellence in aerospace research, medicine, intelligence, education, acquisition and tech commercialization. The result: unsurpassed — and profitable — opportunities for businesses across an array of industries, as well as unique opportunities for the region’s workforce to play an important role in national defense.
Installations include:
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patt is headquarters for a vast, worldwide logistics system, a world-class laboratory research function, and is the foremost acquisition and development center in the U.S. Air Force. Dozens of associate organizations representing a broad spectrum of Air Force and Department of Defense activities call Wright-Patterson home. The base is comparable to a medium-sized city, with services ranging from shopping facilities and child care centers to housing areas and a large medical center.
Springfield Air National Guard Base
The mission of the 178th Wing at the SANGB is to provide ready units to conduct intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and operations support to execute federal and state missions while maintaining an active involvement with the local community.
Dayton VA Medical Center
The Dayton VAMC is a state-of-the-art teaching facility that has been serving veterans for 150 years, having accepted its first patient in 1867. The Dayton VA Medical Center provides a full range of health care through medical, surgical, mental health (inpatient and outpatient), home and community health programs, geriatric (nursing home), physical medicine and therapy services, neurology, oncology, dentistry and hospice.
Wright-Patterson AFB has been a leader in military aviation development, from the time of airplane inventors Wilber and Orville Wright up to and including today’s aerospace age.