{"id":371786,"date":"2026-07-13T23:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371786\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:21:10","slug":"fort-worth-military-base-contributed-billions-to-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371786\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth military base contributed billions to economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The US Navy Blue Angels perform the final stunt of their performance at the Air Power Expo at NAS Fort Worth JRB Sunday, April 24, 2016.<\/p>\n

Richard W. Rodriguez<\/p>\n

rrodriguez@star-telegram.com<\/p>\n

The Naval Air Station Fort Worth contributed at least $4.6 billion to the Texas economy, according to a report from the Texas Comptroller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The base had the fourth-largest contribution to the Texas economy out of the 14 military installations in the state. Joint Base San Antonio had the highest economic impact, with $53.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Fort Hood ($37.9 billion) and Fort Bliss ($29.1 billion) were the only other installations with a higher economic impact than Fort Worth. In total, the 14 installations contributed over $148.8 billion into the Texas economy.<\/p>\n

Formerly known as Carswell Air Force Base, the naval air station houses a variety of Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Army and Texas Air National Guard units. The base employs 4,553 people, including 2,175 active duty military personnel.<\/p>\n

The base is home to 40 commands, which include 13 logistics squadrons that accrue over 40,000 hours of flight time each year. It serves as a hub for Lockheed Martin and owns Air Force Plant 4, which Lockheed uses to manufacture military aircraft. In Fort Worth, Lockheed Martin generates a regional economic impact of $9 billion.<\/p>\n


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Maven Navarro<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Maven Navarro is a local news reporter at the Star-Telegram. She covers Fort Worth and Tarrant County.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US Navy Blue Angels perform the final stunt of their performance at the Air Power Expo at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-371786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}