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Hanscom Innovation Team

Welcome to the Hanscom Innovation Team page. The Innovation Team helps propel organizational culture shifts within the Hanscom acquisition community and works to expand the innovation footprint throughout the installation. Hanscom is located near numerous higher education, industry and nonprofit organizations, and the Innovation Team actively pursues mutually beneficial partnerships with these groups. With the support of various partners, Hanscom has accomplished a great deal in the areas of small business outreach, small business innovation research, workforce development, infrastructure and energy efficiency projects. The Hanscom Innovation Team is focused on sustaining these partnerships and helping to develop new ones.

Innovation Team Mission: Cultivate a community of revolutionary innovators to solve any challenge. 

Connect with the team

Interested in connecting with the Hanscom Innovation Team for demo opportunities or to identify potential end users for your tech? Contact the team: AFLCMC.HNJX.HanscomInnovation@us.af.mil

Innovation & Partnership News

  • 1st Lt. Ben Paulk, (right) a member of the Digital Phantom program and a program manager for AFNWC’s Nuclear Command, Control and Communications Integration Directorate at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., speaks to Col. Tucker Hamilton, director of the Department of the Air Force-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator, at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass., March 26.

    MIT partnership helps acquisition officer expand toolkit

    The Department of the Air Force-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Accelerator is helping acquisition professionals better understand AI and how to incorporate it into Air Force programs.
  • Members of The U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge judging panel meet virtually March 16 to review applications for the program’s second cohort.

    Proven accelerator program welcomes second cohort

    With a tested model in place, organizers of The U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge program, a two-year pilot project designed to increase non-traditional participation in Small Business Innovative Research program opportunities, announced its second cohort March 30. Atomic-6, BoatBox Technologies, CorePower Magnetics, Inergy, Kinnami Software, Measure Global, OxbyEl Technologies, Particle.One, Rhoman Aerospace, and Sentenai Inc. make up the second group to benefit from the specialized mentorship and support offered by MassChallenge and Air Force experts.
  • U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton, gives a brief overview of the Future of Defense Task Force report during a virtual roundtable event, Feb. 10, on Zoom.

    Panel of experts talk future of defense

    The Middlesex 3 Coalition, a non-profit organization focused on economic and workforce development, hosted a virtual Future of Defense roundtable with U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton via Zoom Feb. 10. Moulton kicked off the discussion with a brief overview of the report produced by the Future of Defense Task Force, which he co-chaired in 2020. The task force was established to investigate and assess how to address complex emerging threats, retain economic and military competitiveness, and develop a “whole-of-nation approach” that embraces emerging technology and “harnesses ingenuity and innovation” from the private sector.
  • Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, speaks with members of the fall 2020 AFVentures Fellowship cohort and members of past fellowship cohorts during a virtual fireside chat Oct. 22.

    Cyber fellowship sparks innovative ideas

    Personnel from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Digital Directorate and Detachment 12’s Kessel Run are using their recent AFVentures Cyber Fellowship experiences to promote innovation and accelerate change within their programs. Kevin Kelly, technical director for PEO Digital, Capt. Lillian Warner, Red Team lead for Cyber Security Engineering at Kessel Run, and 1st Lt. Greg Barrow, project manager for Unit Level Intelligence at Kessel Run, were among the first cyber cohort of 17 service members selected for the program. Fellows were matched to technology companies based in San Francisco; Los Angeles; Ann Arbor, Michigan; New York and Boston for a six-week virtual immersion October through November 2020.
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Current Projects

The U.S. Air Force Lab with MassChallenge:

Cohort 3 - Fall 2021

The Banshee Program with MassChallenge:

Cohort 5 - November 2021

 

 

Tech Focus Areas

The Hanscom Innovation Team is looking to connect with potential partners in the following areas:

 

Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning

 

Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality

 

Autonomous Vehicles

 

Big Data Analytics

 

Counter Small Unmanned Aerial Systems

 

Cyber Resiliency/Security

 

DevSecOps

 

Digital Engineering

 

Digital Twins

 

Edge Computing

 

Sensors

 

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles 

 

Software Defined Networking

 

Mesh Networking

 

Multi-function Apertures

 

Open Architecture Radios

 

Machine-to-Machine Processing

 

Team Members

The Hanscom Innovation Team is made up of representatives from the following organizations:

 

PEO Digital

 

PEO Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks

 

Nuclear Command, Control and Communications

 

Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapons Systems

 

66th Air Base Group

 

The Lantern: Hanscom Collaboration and Innovation Center

 

Air Force Life Cycle Management Center-Hanscom Small Business Office

 

Hanscom Warhawk Innovation Council

 

96th Cyberspace Test Group Detachment 1