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  • 2010 Motorcycle Season set to kick off

    The 66th Air Base Wing Safety Office will be hosting a pre-season motorcycle safety briefing at 1 p.m. on March 30, in the Base Theater. This briefing will feature speakers from local riding clubs the Green Knights and the Patriot Guard Riders. This is a mandatory briefing for all Hanscom military

  • ESC garners two top Air Force acquisition awards

    An Electronic Systems Center group commander and a key program team within his group both received Air Force Acquisition and Transformation Leadership Awards March 10.The awards, to Col. Cordell DeLaPena, commander of the 653rd Electronic Systems Group, and to the Battlefield Airborne Communications

  • ECSS progress topic of Champions' Day at Hanscom

    More than 20 Expeditionary Combat Support System champions representing all Air Force major commands gathered at Hanscom March 10-11 to review the transformational ECSS program progress and plot out the system's continued development.Hanscom is the pilot base for the program, and will begin

  • Joint STARS resumes re-engining program with two major contract actions

    The 751st Electronic Systems Group has successfully resumed the system design and development (SDD) phase of the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System re-engining program with the award of two large contract actions. The E-8C Joint STARS is an airborne battle management command and

  • Girl Scouts deliver record number of cookies for deployed troops

    Nearly 2,500 Girl Scouts along with their parents and troop leaders descended on Hanscom March 6, delivering more than 30,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for deployed Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines in an event dubbed "Operation Cookie Drop."The cookie drive was organized by the Girl Scouts of

  • Cyber Control System launch under way this week

    Electronic Systems Center program managers are in Virginia this week for a contract kick-off meeting on Increment One of the Cyber Control System, after awarding the critical $8.9 million contract to Electronic Data Systems (a Hewlett Packard company) two weeks ago.CCS Increment-1 will enable active

  • Air Force Portal improves collaboration with professional networking

    The Global Combat Support System-Air Force Program Management Office at Hanscom AFB is set to release an update to the Air Force Portal with new Web 2.0 features. The Airman's Professional Network incorporates some of the best ideas from social and professional networking sites."We know young Airmen