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  • Identifying friendly forces to become easier for AWACS

    The Electronic Systems Center has achieved the next step in bringing an improved Identification Friend or Foe, or IFF, system capability to Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft.Currently AWACS provides situational awareness of friendly, neutral and hostile activity, along with early warning

  • Help welcome heroes home on Friday

    More than 50 deployers who have recently returned home and their families will be honored Friday, Dec. 10 during Heroes Homecoming at 2:30 p.m. at the Aero Club Hangar. The entire base community is invited to attend this pep-rally style event. Because of limited parking around the hangar, attendees

  • Two lucky Airmen fly home for the holidays

    Two Hanscom Airmen will be spending time this holiday season with their loved ones courtesy of the Hanscom Senior NCO Association (Top 3) and the Hanscom First Sergeants Association for the first annual Fly an Airman Home for the Holidays program.Airman 1st Class Jenifer Grayson and Airman 1st Class

  • Hanscom captain plays for Air Force, Armed Forces soccer teams

    Capt. Dan Walsh not only serves his country by being a part of the U.S. Air Force, but also when he plays soccer. For the past few months he had the opportunity to represent the United States as a member of the U.S. Air Force and Armed Forces soccer teams."The experience was one of the most unique,

  • CHPS offers class on healthy holiday eating

    Deanne Casey, a registered nurse and Hanscom's civilian health educator with Civilian Health Promotion Services, is offering a class for civilians to learn or be reminded of how to eat healthy during the holidays. The class will take place on Dec. 15 from 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the Health and Wellness

  • Sponsors can now receive training online

    Hanscom Air Force Base recently launched an online sponsor training and resource tool on CenterNet, which will better assist relocating Airmen and their families with sponsors at the gaining organizations.According to Terri O'Keefe, a community readiness team lead with the Airman and Family

  • BACN reaps key Order of Daedalians weapons system award

    An Electronic Systems Center-managed airborne communication system that's meeting urgent U.S. warfighting needs has received a major award from the Order of Daedalians, a national fraternity of military pilots.The Weapons System Award recognizes major contributions to the outstanding development of

  • Red Sox legend to help welcome heroes home

    The entire base community is invited to welcome home recently deployed Hanscom troops and meet Red Sox legend Rico Petrocelli during the Hanscom Heroes Homecoming celebration on Dec. 10 at 2:30 p.m. in the Aero Club Hangar. Mr. Petrocelli, a member of the 1967 "impossible dream" Red Sox team, played