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CSC to lay off 114 local employees

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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Updated 1:47 PM Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Computer Sciences Corp. will permanently lay off 114 local employees as of March 6, the company has told the state of Ohio.

Last week, a CSC spokeswoman told the Dayton Daily News that the company intended to remove more than 200 employees and contractors from their jobs on a government computer modernization project.

Heather Williams, spokeswoman for Falls Church, Va.-based CSC, said she could not say last week how many of those people will be reassigned or laid off. And Williams said then she could not address how many of those jobs were in the company’s Beavercreek offices.

But a Jan. 6 letter from Charles Jackson, vice president and program executive with U.S. Shared Services, a CSC unit, said 114 of those Beavercreek employees will be permanently laid off.

The employees work at CSC’s offices at 3560 Pentagon Blvd. The employees to be laid off include business analysts, database architects, software engineers, document control associates and more, said Jackson’s letter to Kathy Maybriar, of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.

Williams declined to say Wednesday how many Beavercreek employees the company will have after the layoffs. Late last week, she said CSC has about 200 employees before she backed away from that number.

The project involved replacing about 240 outdated government information technology systems at 186 locations worldwide. But the U.S. Air Force last year stopped funding for the latest phase of the project.

CSC had restructured the program several times, and the restructurings increased costs and created delays. The project was originally scheduled to be completed in 2013. The completion date has slipped to 2016.

The Air Force said at the time it had spent $986.5 million on the project, which is designed to replace old computer systems across the Air Force with a single, integrated computer network for transportation, maintenance and repair, engineering and acquisition.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2390 or tgnau@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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