The company’s Beavercreek office is directing the work to replace old computer systems across the Air Force with a single, integrated computer network to manage multimillion-dollar transportation, maintenance and repair, engineering and acquisition programs.
The Air Force said Computer Sciences’ problems in managing the project had caused costly delays. The program’s originally envisioned 2013 completion date has now slipped until at least 2017. The work began in 2007.
More than $1 billion has been spent on the project, Air Force spokeswoman Jennifer Cassidy wrote in an email response Wednesday to questions from the Dayton Daily News. The service’s May announcement about restructuring the project and getting it back on track will provide a new estimate of the total cost for completion, she said.
Computer Sciences had no comment on the Air Force’s statement, company spokeswoman Heather Williams said.
The Air Force’s September decision involved halting work on the project’s final stage. Computer Sciences said then that it was taking 165 people off the project. The company was allowed to continue work on the project’s prior development phase.
At its peak, the project supported about 500 jobs locally and as many as 1,100 across the country.
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