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  • Challenge gives junior engineers opportunity for hands-on experience

    On Oct. 31, the Electronic Systems Center held a kick-off for the ESC Innovation Challenge, a competition where two teams of junior engineers will work to find the best technical solution for a warfighter need. The challenge is a two-phase competition to develop and integrate technologies that

  • Air Force announces civilian workforce restructuring

    Air Force officials announced several adjustments to the civilian workforce. In response to direction from the Secretary of Defense for DoD to stop civilian growth above fiscal year 2010 levels and the need to add 5,900 positions against the Air Force's top priorities, the Air Force eliminated

  • AFMC restructures to cut overhead, make command more efficient

    Providing greater military capabilities, improving readiness and operating effectively in the current fiscal environment is the purpose of an Air Force Materiel Command-wide restructure announced by Air Force officials today. AFMC will reduce the number of its centers from 12 to five. This will cut

  • Hanscom hosting Forge.mil Testing Services pilots

    An innovative, interactive online testing capability is receiving a needed boost with a pilot effort hosted by the Electronic Systems Center here.The Testing Services component of the Defense Department's common software development environment, Forge.mil, has been championed and developed by ESC

  • Housing construction complete, feedback wanted

    The last nail is hammered and the paint is dry as privatized housing begins a new chapter at Hanscom. Construction just wrapped up on 250 new homes, and remodeling projects on 353 homes are finished. About eight years ago, the transition from government-run housing to privatization began here. As

  • Key Spouse program keeps families connected

    Duty separations are a fact of life for service members and their families. Extended TDYs, deployments and remote tours leave military spouses and families without their active duty loved ones for weeks, months and sometimes a year or more. The Air Force realizes it is vital that these families know

  • Quit smoking -- the time is now

    Many people wait until New Year's to make their resolutions. A number of those resolutions will be to stop smoking. But New Year's is still eight weeks away. Rather than waiting, why not take the steps to quit by Jan. 1 and begin the new year with one of your goals already completed?Tobacco use is

  • Air Force team transports wounded Libyan fighters to U.S.

    Nearly two dozen wounded Libyan fighters were evacuated from the the revolutionary battlefields of Libya to the birthplace of the American Revolution, Oct. 29 aboard an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. At the request of the Department of State, the Secretary of Defense directed two missions