The folks in Bossier City and Bossier Parish around Barksdale AFB, La., plan to direct $50 million toward a venture to create an Innovation Business Park that they hope would “draw businesses and other interests” to support USAF’s new Cyber Command, reports The Shreveport Times. The Bossier folks also believe the state will add on $40 million. The Air Force fingered 8th Air Force at Barksdale last year to set up the new command, but the service has yet to say whether it would actually remain in Louisiana. USAF expects to stand up the new command perhaps late this summer.
The Air Force budget would grow to $234 billion while Space Force spending would shrink to $26 billion under the White House's yearly ask.