536 Tampa jobs cut after IT company loses $2.8B contract at MacDill

Dallas-based Jacobs Technology believes the laid-off employees at MacDill Air Force Base may get to keep their jobs with the suburban Washington, D.C., firm that won the contract.

By Louis Llovio
| 6:00 p.m. March 8, 2024
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More than 500 jobs will be cut at MacDill Air Force Base after SITEC contract handed to another compny.

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A Texas technology company with operations at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa is laying off 536 employees after losing a $2.8 billion IT and networks services contract with U.S. Special Operation Command.

Dallas-based Jacobs Technology Inc. says in a letter to state officials that its current contract expires May 16 but that it began cutting staff March 1. The company, however, told the state there is a possibility the new contractor, Peraton, will keep some of the employees.

“We anticipate that the vast majority of the workforce will continue in uninterrupted employment with the successor contractor or one of their subcontractors,” Jacobs vice president and SITEC II program manager Bruce Johnson writes in the note.