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  • Hanscom team works to lower person-borne IED threat

    An Electronic Systems Center office is working to minimize the threat of suicide bombings at the entry points of controlled access zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The team has been working since late September to rapidly evaluate technologies designed to detect what are known as person-borne

  • Much anticipated compliance inspection begins next week

    Ninety-six inspectors representing Air Force Materiel Command will descend on Hanscom next week for a 10-day Unit Compliance Inspection and Targeted Readiness Inspection. The inspectors will fan out to every base organization with clipboards in hand, spending much of their time here reviewing each

  • TOPS IN BLUE…looking for you

    Attention Air Force active duty, Guard and Reserve personnel. If you've always thought that you had the talent and the stamina to perform in front of an audience of thousands and are up to the challenges of being a Tops In Blue team member, then your opportunity is here. "Mission Audition" is now in

  • Still time to donate to Hanscom CFC

    Hanscom's Combined Federal Campaign is moving closer to its goal of raising $237,000 for this year's drive but there is still a ways to go. "We're very pleased with the results so far," said Capt. Kate Stowe, Hanscom CFC representative. "For the first two weeks of the campaign Hanscom collected more

  • Operation Pumpkin keeps trick or treating fun, safe

    It's that time of year when children are filled with the excitement and anticipation of a night filled with costumes, candy, and fun. Hanscom trick or treating will take place Oct. 31 between 6 and 8 p.m. Keeping the tricks to a minimum and the treating safe and fun is the goal of this year's

  • ESC woman earns Outstanding DoD Person With Disability Award

    Joanne Jordan, lead information manager for the 950th Electronic Systems Group, who has been totally blind since birth, has won the Outstanding Department of Defense Employee with a Disability Award for 2008. Each year, the Department of Defense sponsors this award program to recognize and publicize