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  • FSS lands four AFMC awards for outstanding performance

    The 66th Force Support Squadron recently received word from Air Force Materiel Command Manpower and Personnel community that three individuals and one organization received Major Command-level Force Support Squadron awards.The awards, given annually, went to one individual each from Hanscom Lodging,

  • Virtualization effort aims at more efficient management of computing power

    An Electronic Systems Center pilot project will help officials here evaluate the full potential of virtualization, which allows computer resources such as memory, processing, network and disk space to be partitioned and efficiently redistributed. This virtualization pilot is relatively small, but

  • Building on Bold Quest, airborne network moves forward

    A team from the Electronic Systems Center here is now building on some encouraging airborne networking results achieved during Bold Quest '09, the massive Joint Forces Command-led exercise conducted in November.Despite some issues that took the main test aircraft off line, officials from the 653rd

  • General Hoffman cites progress on AFMC's 2009 priorities

    Air Force Materiel Command has made "significant progress" on five priorities for 2009 set by Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, AFMC commander, shortly after he assumed command in November 2008.In a recent letter to the command entitled "State of the Command - 2010," General Hoffman offered his assessment of

  • Winter weather, snow quickly approaching

    As the winter season quickly approaches at Hanscom, snow removal crews are gearing up for yet another unpredictable New England winter.Winter is right around the corner and so is the annual requirement to remove snow and ice from the streets and walkways of Hanscom.The base maintenance contractor,

  • Staggered release plan for Hanscom

    A staggered release of employees is initiated, if during normal duty hours, a major storm hits or threatens Hanscom. A staggered release is intended to maximize the safety of employees and minimize traffic congestion through each organization's pyramid alert procedures using the following release