It forms part of the wider Winchester Garrison and houses the headquarters of the Defence School of Logistics and Administration (DSLA), as well as the headquarters of the Royal Logistic Corps and Adjutant General's Corps.

DSLA provides logistic support, personnel administration and leadership training to all three armed services.

In 1939 the airfield was transferred to the Royal Navy and used by the Fleet Air Arm until 1950, then as an engineering training school.

[1] The site was handed over to the Royal Army Pay Corps in 1960 and became home to the Electronic Accounting Development Unit who housed their computer centre with its IBM 705 system there.

[4] In 2012 the RAF School of Administration moved to Worthy Down from Southwick Park, near Portsmouth.