SUSLA receives endowed professorship related to Cyber Command

The Caddo Parish Commission will provide $60,000 for an endowed professorship at SUSLA. The endowed professorship will assist with establishing curricula in disciplines that would support a locally-based national Cyber Command Center for the Air Force.

The Air Force plans to build a 58-acre cyber innovation center to complement Air Force Cyber Command, just formed at Barksdale Air Force Base. Using up to $50 million from Bossier City and Bossier Parish and $50 million from Louisiana, the center would be an enticement to the Air Force to locate a potential new major command headed by a four-star general here.

Planners also estimate as many as 10,000 civilian contractor jobs, ranging from programmers and engineers to manufacturers and training could also result, directly and indirectly.