Posted on December 8th, 2017 by Tom Soto | Categorized under General News Click here for the original publication. Louisiana Tech, creator of the nation’s first four-year undergraduate degree in cyber engineering and is a partner with several industry leaders in various cyber fields, strongly supports the State of Louisiana’s most recent step toward solidifying its national leadership of cybersecurity. [...]
November 15, 2017 (Shreveport, La.) -- A special visit for Shreveport, today, as the Secretary of the Air Force, Heather Wilson, makes a stop, tonight, to attend a symposium by the Air Force Global Strike Command. She served as guest speaker. On her way to the podium, she received a standing ovation, and what got [...]
Last week, the Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), headquartered in Bossier City, Louisiana, received a $4 million continuation grant from the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The CIC is the anchor of the 3,000-acre National Cyber Research Park and serves as the catalyst for the development and expansion of a knowledge-based workforce throughout the [...]
K-12 educators and administrators from Caddo and Bossier Parishes in Louisiana as well as Arkansas and South Carolina have completed the four-course certificate sequence enabling them to add the cyber education teacher credential to their repository of enrichments and certificate enhancements. Approved by the Board of Regents in January 2017, the Cyber Education Certificate is [...]
If you want to see the future of the Arklatex economy, come to the Cyber Innovation Center, and see it through the eyes of Craig Spohn, its Executive Director. "At the foundational level, we are wanting to diversify the local economy," he says, as he sits in his office inside CIC and surveys [...]
Louisiana Tech University has partnered with the Cyber Innovation Center to establish a new Academic Success Center in the Bossier Parish Community College (BPCC) STEM Building at the National Cyber Research Park in Bossier City. This facility will enable Louisiana Tech to enhance educational services, provide cyber education and research, support economic development and engage [...]
Bossier City's cyber technology industry is on the cusp of a boom, and now a designation given to the Bossier Parish community college labels the school as a 'Center of Workforce Excellence in Cyber Technology' in North Louisiana. "We've got CSRA, we've got Century Link down the street we've got 3,000 cyber [...]
CSRA, located on the Cyber Innovation Center campus in Bossier City, has been awarded a $498 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to support the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) milCloud 2.0, Phase 1. MilCloud is a cloud-services portfolio, managed by DISA, and is recognized by the defense industry as a coveted [...]
Northern Louisiana is known for its strong manufacturing, agriculture and health care sectors as well as its natural beauty and family-friendly atmosphere. However, the region is now nurturing a new and exciting sector — a booming information technology (IT) cluster that first took hold in 2001. This emerging sector is evolving into a powerhouse, generating buzz, connections [...]
Finding the right tech talent is hard no matter where you are. Finding it along Interstate 20 in northern Louisiana has been particularly challenging. Historically there have been few prominent employers to attract and anchor a consistent workforce along this mostly rural stretch that runs west through the small cities of Monroe, Ruston and Shreveport [...]