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  • Joint STARS resumes re-engining program with two major contract actions

    The 751st Electronic Systems Group has successfully resumed the system design and development (SDD) phase of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System re-engining program with the award of two large contract actions. The E-8C Joint STARS is an airborne battle management command and

  • Girl Scouts deliver record number of cookies for deployed troops

    Nearly 2,500 Girl Scouts along with their parents and troop leaders descended on Hanscom March 6, delivering more than 30,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for deployed Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in an event dubbed "Operation Cookie Drop."The cookie drive was organized by the Girl Scouts of

  • Cyber Control System launch under way this week

    Electronic Systems Center program managers are in Virginia this week for a contract kick-off meeting on Increment One of the Cyber Control System, after awarding the critical $8.9 million contract to Electronic Data Systems (a Hewlett Packard company) two weeks ago.CCS Increment-1 will enable active

  • Air Force Portal improves collaboration with professional networking

    The Global Combat Support System-Air Force Program Management Office at Hanscom AFB is set to release an update to the Air Force Portal with new Web 2.0 features. The Airman's Professional Network incorporates some of the best ideas from social and professional networking sites."We know young Airmen

  • Hanscom Aero Club manager earns Air Force honors

    Steven Bates, Hanscom's Aero Club manager, was recently named the Air Force Community Services Flight Manager of the Year.The award was recently announced by Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton II, the deputy chief of staff for Manpower and Personnel as part of the 2009 A-1 awards program.Mr. Bates was

  • Women's History Month offers educational experiences

    March is National Women's History Month, and Hanscom will have several activities to celebrate, including a luncheon, a film showing and a field trip.This year is the 30th anniversary of the national observance. The theme for the month is "Writing Women Back into History." The observance officially

  • National Prayer Breakfast set for March 18

    Chaplain Brig. Gen. David H. Cyr, deputy chief of the Air Force Chaplain Corps, will be the guest speaker at Hanscom's National Prayer Breakfast March 18 at 8 a.m. in the Minuteman Club ballroom.The roots of the National Prayer Breakfast go back to the early 1950s, during the time of the Cold War. A

  • Workforce Development Week to feature more than 50 courses

    Military members and civilian employees will have an opportunity to choose from among more than 50 training events during Electronic Systems Center's Workforce Development Week March 29 to April 9."This is a great opportunity to hear and learn about what is new in the acquisition world, learn to use

  • Hanscom to welcome ECSS champions next week

    As the pilot location for the implementation of what program officials call "the largest transformation in Air Force history," Hanscom will be hosting more than 20 "champions" of the Expeditionary Combat Support System program from across the Air Force March 10-11.The ECSS program, managed by the

  • Trimmed-down Instrument Landing System will provide in-theater support

    The 853rd Electronic Systems Group is working to improve the transportability and deployability of instrument landing systems with an upcoming request for proposal for a Deployable Instrument Landing System, or D-ILS.The D-ILS will provide a system of equal performance to existing Category I