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  • Hanscom Aero Club manager earns Air Force honors

    Steven Bates, Hanscom's Aero Club manager, was recently named the Air Force Community Services Flight Manager of the Year.The award was recently announced by Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton II, the deputy chief of staff for Manpower and Personnel as part of the 2009 A-1 awards program.Mr. Bates was

  • National Prayer Breakfast set for March 18

    Chaplain Brig. Gen. David H. Cyr, deputy chief of the Air Force Chaplain Corps, will be the guest speaker at Hanscom's National Prayer Breakfast March 18 at 8 a.m. in the Minuteman Club ballroom.The roots of the National Prayer Breakfast go back to the early 1950s, during the time of the Cold War. A

  • Workforce Development Week to feature more than 50 courses

    Military members and civilian employees will have an opportunity to choose from among more than 50 training events during Electronic Systems Center's Workforce Development Week March 29 to April 9."This is a great opportunity to hear and learn about what is new in the acquisition world, learn to use

  • Hanscom to welcome ECSS champions next week

    As the pilot location for the implementation of what program officials call "the largest transformation in Air Force history," Hanscom will be hosting more than 20 "champions" of the Expeditionary Combat Support System program from across the Air Force March 10-11.The ECSS program, managed by the

  • Trimmed-down Instrument Landing System will provide in-theater support

    The 853rd Electronic Systems Group is working to improve the transportability and deployability of instrument landing systems with an upcoming request for proposal for a Deployable Instrument Landing System, or D-ILS.The D-ILS will provide a system of equal performance to existing Category I

  • MPUC to bring users and developers together next month

    The 15th annual Mission Planning Users' Conference, known as MPUC, will take place March 23 through 25 at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas. Hosted by Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds and 951st Electronic Systems Group Commander Col. Gary Hetland, the event is expected to draw

  • A Guide for Good Oral Health

    Dental decay is the most common chronic disease of childhood, affecting 50 percent of children by middle childhood and nearly 70 percent by late adolescence, according to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. Chronic gingivitis is also common among children. This is the mildest form of