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  • Hanscom home to Civil Air Patrol squadron, wing

    Members of the Hanscom community ages 12 and older can learn more about aviation and careers in aviation, space or in the military by attending one of the Civil Air Patrol's monthly meetings held here.The Hanscom Composite Squadron is part of the Massachusetts Wing Civil Air Patrol program and

  • Change your clocks, change your batteries

    It's the time of year to "spring forward" and set clocks ahead at 2 a.m. Sunday morning as part of daylight saving time. At the same time, officials from the 66th Air Base Group Fire Prevention Services encourage everyone to change the batteries in all of their home's smoke alarms and carbon

  • Collaboration key to connectivity

    The Satellite Terminal Program Office here recently collaborated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MITRE Corp. and industry partners on testing to improve beyond-line-of-sight communications for contested operations.Last year, Hanscom-sponsored engineers began working to demonstrate that a

  • MWD teams expand explosive detection capability

    Airmen from the 66th Security Forces Squadron Military Working Dog section, as well as other federal, state and local law enforcement canine teams, participated in a National Odor Recognition Testing pre-test event here March 2 and 3.The two-day training was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol,

  • FBI launches new awareness program for teens

    Today, like never before, violent extremists of all kinds are deliberately targeting our nation's young people with poisonous propaganda, especially in cyberspace, where they are flooding social media with slick recruiting videos and persuasive calls to action. Violent extremist information is only

  • Junior acquirers share knowledge, experience to address challenges

    A group of junior acquisition professionals from across the installation held an event here Feb. 23 to 25 to collaborate on solutions to acquisition challenges.Known throughout the Air Force acquisition community as the Revolutionary Acquisition Techniques Procedures and Collaboration, or RATPAC,

  • Base exercise week may cause delays, interruptions

    The week of March 14 through 18, Hanscom AFB will conduct exercise scenarios to evaluate the installation's readiness and emergency response capabilities.According to organizers, conducting various scenarios during a week allows Hanscom to improve its assessments by testing a variety of items