BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal and Computer Sciences Corporation executive John DeSimone have helped break ground on a new technology center in Bossier City.
CSC is building its new facility — which will focus on cloud computing, cybersecurity and software development — at a research park that also houses the Cyber Innovation Center, which is located next to Barksdale Air Force base and collaborates with Louisiana Tech University.
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The project will create 800 jobs over the next four years.
Louisiana Economic Development said Thursday CSC already is operating in a 40,000-square-foot temporary space within the research park and the company has filled more than half of its 192-job, first-year hiring target since announced the project in Feburary.
The new facility is scheduled for completion in the second quarter of 2016.
