Pawlikowski addresses Hanscom’s workforce

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  • By Mark Wyatt
  • 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs
HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, concluded a visit here by providing employees an update on command strategies and more during an all call March 17.

During the session, the general addressed the Air Force priorities as they relate to Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein’s three focus areas and the command’s strategic plan, goals and objectives.

Pawlikowski was at Hanscom to participate in an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center metrics review.

While discussing multi-domain command and control, a top focus area for Goldfein, Pawlikowski touched on the role Hanscom will have in executing it.

“Command and control is the heart and soul of what this installation started as, and continues to be,” Pawlikowski said. “There’s not a single person in this room who’s not critical to the third focus area the chief has talked about.”

She then spoke about the recently announced revision of the command’s vision statement and updated command goals for 2017.

“We met with all the senior leaders in the command and took a look at the mission statement and vision statement and our goals and we updated them,” she said. “We learned a lot from what we did, and there are a couple of minor updates.”

Pawlikowski then reviewed the command’s four major goals from 2016.

The general also provided an update on Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project, known as AcqDemo, saying the command “successfully converted 13,500 civilian employees.”

While discussing the current hiring freeze, Pawlikowski spoke briefly about its effect on the command. She also noted that Air Force senior leaders understand the impact it is having on the command’s 60,000 civilian workforce.

Before a short question-and-answer session, the general presented the 66th Air Base Group with the Outstanding Unit Award for 2015 by placing a streamer on the group’s guidon.