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By Thomas Gnau, Staff Writer Updated 12:55 AM Saturday, January 7, 2012

DAYTON — Computer Sciences Corp. said Friday it will remove more than 200 employees and contractors from their jobs with a government computer modernization project.

Heather Williams, a spokeswoman for Falls Church, Va.-based CSC, said she could not say how many of those people will be reassigned or laid off.

“I think that’s possible for anybody,” Williams said.

In a statement, CSC said the cuts were part of “a series of associated incremental staff reductions.” A “reassignment services” team will help affected employees, the statement said. The statement did not address how many employees will be affected.

CSC has more than 200 Beavercreek employees, Williams said. She could not say how the “roll-offs” — her term for the job cuts — will affect local employment. The company has an office at 3560 Pentagon Park Blvd.

In September, the company said it would remove about 165 people from their jobs after the Air Force criticized CSC’s performance and stopped funding for a phase of the Expeditionary Combat Support System project. The jobs cuts were to take place in late September, but Williams said Friday she did not know how many of those employees were ultimately laid off.

The project involved replacing about 240 outdated information technology systems at 186 locations worldwide.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

The company 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.

Ben Johnson, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, said Friday the department has received no WARN (Worker Adjustment Retraining Notice) Act notice from CSC. Beth Rubin, director of the Greene County Department of Job and Family Services, said she has received no WARN notice from the company, either.

In general, when companies with 100 or more employees plan layoffs affecting 50 or more workers in a 30-day period, WARN filings are required.

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

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