MATRIC to Add 150 jobs, Create Homeland Security Data Center

EmploymentCrossing.com A non-profit research and development institute in South Charleston, West Virginia will add 150 new high-tech jobs in the next 18 months, and is receiving $2 million in federal funds to start a Homeland Security data integration center. The Mid-Atlantic Technology, Research and Innovation Center, or MATRIC, will partner with Butler International to form the International Design Center, which will create 150 new engineering and research and development jobs. Butler is a tech outsourcing company headquartered in Florida. "While a lot of people are afraid for their jobs, we are creating jobs," MATRIC CEO Keith Pauley said. The jobs will have an average annual salary of $100,000. Republican Representative Shelley Moore Capito announced $2 million in federal funding to build the Project National Shield Integration Center, which will work to coordinate Homeland Security data. The $2 million was included in the U.S. Department of Defense appropriation approved by Congress.

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