The Louisiana folks interested in gaining the Air Force’s new Cyber Command are working more than land to sweeten the pot. The Shreveport Times reports that Bossier Parish and Bossier City area officials are beginning to look at helping develop a potential workforce, not just for the new command but for the related facilities and businesses certain to congregate around the new command. Louisiana is joined in this race to secure Cyber Command by California, Nebraska, and Texas—at least those are the ones we know so far.
Every year, Congress and the military debate which combat assets should head to the boneyard and which have more life left in them. Lawmakers often opt to keep Air Force systems that bring jobs to their districts, which complicates matters as the service looks to modernize and ditch certain platforms.…