Augusta GA Business News
Fort Eisenhower — home to U.S. Army Cyber Command, the Cyber Center of Excellence, and NSA Georgia — anchors the Augusta-area economy with roughly 18,000 active-duty personnel and tens of thousands of additional civilian and family jobs. Unemployment ran at 3.9% through 2025-05, against a state rate of 3.6%. Georgia is a right-to-work state.
What anchors the Augusta economy
- Fort Eisenhower (U.S. Army, incl. Army Cyber Command).
- Augusta University / AU Health System.
- Richmond County School System.
- Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government.
Beyond the headlines
The economy reaches into Healthcare / Academic Medicine, Higher Education, Manufacturing, and Golf & Sports Tourism.
Trade & infrastructure
- Foreign Trade Zone coverage in the Augusta area — federal duty-deferral zone for manufacturers and distributors here.
- Augusta Regional Airport at Bush Field.
Talent pipeline
Workforce flows out of Augusta University, Paine College, and Augusta Technical College — feeding the engineering, healthcare, finance, and skilled-trade jobs that Augusta employers fill every year.
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