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  • Many options available for Hanscom commuters

    Most people have a preferred method of commuting to work, but some Hanscom workers have more than one choice to get to and from the base each day.Robert Spelfogel, Commuter manager, explains a few of the options available to Hanscom personnel."The Transportation Incentive Program is a program for

  • Important steps to handle dental injuries

    The American Academy of Pediatric Dentists estimates that 17 to 25 percent of children will experience some form of dental injury by the age of 15, and that there are two peak age ranges during which these dental injuries occur. Those ages include 18 to 40 months, when curiosity is high and

  • ESC deployable air traffic control system program back on track

    An Electronic Systems Center program to provide a new deployable air traffic control system is moving forward again after budgetary challenges.The Deployable Radar Approach Control, or D-RAPCON, will provide worldwide expeditionary approach and en route surveillance for joint, coalition and civil

  • Hanscom participates in Federal Green Challenge

    Last October, the Environmental Protection Agency and General Services Administration began its 2012 Federal Green Challenge for agencies in the federal government. Hanscom decided to participate in the challenge in two target areas: waste and energy. The voluntary campaign is a national initiative

  • Hanscom Fire Department named best small department in AFMC

    The Hanscom Fire Department has been selected as the Air Force Materiel Command's Small Fire Department of the Year for 2011.The department will now compete in the same category among the major commands at the Air Force level. The winners at that competition will compete for honors across all levels

  • Hanscom lieutenant is Spirit of Hope Award nominee

    One of Hanscom's very own has been nominated for the Spirit of Hope Award.First Lt. Mitchell Johnson, Fixed Base Weather Observation System deputy program manager, is nominated for the award that is named in honor of the late entertainer, Bob Hope, and is presented for outstanding service to the

  • ESC helping to achieve successful transition

    Detailed planning for Air Force Materiel Command's five-center transition is well under way, with some 50 people from across the Electronic Systems Center working hard to ensure the transition to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will be a success."Lots of planning and hard work has already

  • Cookies, coffee delivered to troops

    Rain wasn't the only thing that poured into Hanscom on Saturday morning. Approximately 1,000 Girl Scouts, troop leaders and parents filed through the gates to donate more than 30,000 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies during the fifth annual Operation Cookie Drop March 3. Nearly 50 volunteers from Hanscom