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A NASA space shuttle at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Alabama’s federal workforce is rooted in DoD and NASA-related activities. NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville employs nearly 2,500 people making the agency the third largest federal employer in the state.

Population: 4.6 million

Federal Workforce: 36,448

Largest Federal Departments / Agencies (number of employees in parentheses): Department of Defense (22,236), Department of Veterans Affairs (4,449), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2,534), Social Security Administration (2,467), and Department of Agriculture (1,314).

As of March 1st, there are 270 Government and Policy jobs in Alabama listed on GovCentral’s job search engine (powered by USAJobs.) Check them out here.

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