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  • Division ensuring vital systems sustained

    Battle Management's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division here is working to ensure the abilities of the system that warn the president and national command authorities of attacks will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.Officials from the division awarded a $28 million sustainment task

  • Local towns to host annual Patriots' Day events

    Members of Team Hanscom can participate in annual Patriots' Day celebrations scheduled to take place in local towns throughout the month of April.Patriots' Day commemorates the opening battle of the American Revolution in 1775. The 2016 holiday will be officially observed April 18, but events will

  • Firefighters respond to construction fire

    Firefighters from the base and from some nearby communities responded to a fire this morning inside a new middle school, which is under construction here. The school is currently unoccupied, except by construction workers. There are no reports of injury.The fire was successfully extinguished early

  • Air Force announces new AFMC command chief

    Air Force officials announced March 24, 2016, the assignment of Chief Master Sgt. Jason L. France as the command chief sergeant of Air Force Materiel Command. He is currently the command chief master sergeant of the Air Force Sustainment Center at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The command's

  • TRICARE offers relief for spring allergies

    The weather is finally warming and we can spend more time outdoors. Unfortunately for some, warm weather brings suffering from seasonal allergies. However, there is hope. TRICARE covers proven services and supplies needed to diagnose and treat allergies.According to the Centers for Disease Control

  • Transitioning from a performance- to contribution-based pay system in AcqDemo

    Training is in full swing for some 13,000 Air Force Materiel Command personnel scheduled to convert to the DoD Civilian Acquisition Workforce Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) pay system in June 2016.During the training, employees are learning about the key differences in the performance management

  • Civilians authorized participation in fitness, wellness programs

    Members of the Department of Defense civilian workforce here are able to participate in the Air Force Materiel Command fitness and wellness initiative that permits up to three hours each week of voluntary physical fitness or participation in wellness programs.Interested employees must first initiate

  • AFSVA gets ready for 2016 youth camps

    Hanscom teenagers looking to cure those summertime blues will have various camps to choose from this year, thanks to central funding from the Air Force Services Activity, also known as AFSVA.Teen family members of active-duty Airmen; retired Airmen; Air Force civilian employees; Air National Guard;

  • 66 MDS encourages secure messaging use

    Patients seen by the 66th Medical Squadron here are able to request and provide information to their health care team through a patient portal called MiCare Secure Messaging.Since the Air Force Medical Service first introduced it in 2012, MiCare has allowed for a more secure exchange of health