Workforce Data
NASA Workforce Map

The NASA workforce is made up of over 18,000 civil service employees, primarily located at the Headquarters and 10 major field centers. Additionally, the workforce includes more than 40,000 contractors and grantees working at or near the NASA centers. A list of the center acronyms is provided below as well as their location and links to the specific homepage.

NASA Full-time Equivalent Employment
CS: 18,600 CTR: 43,500

• The civil service data does not include student employment.
• Contractor data is approximate and from the 2006 FAIR inventory.
• JPL employees are not civil service; they work for Cal Tech.
• Data is as of June 2006

Center Acronyms, Names and Locations:

• NASA HQ - Headquarters, Washington, DC
• ARC - Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California
• DFRC - Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California
• LaRC - Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
• GRC - Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
• GSFC - Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
• IV&V (GSFC) - Independent Verification and Validation Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia
• WFF (GSFC) - Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island,Virginia
• JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California
• JSC - Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
• KSC - Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida
• MSFC - Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
• NSSC - NASA Shared Services Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
• SSC - Stennis Space Center, Bay St. Louis, Mississippi
• WSTF - White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New Mexico