Base Web site to change Published Nov. 20, 2006 By Airman 1st Class Clinton Atkins 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass -- Hanscom Airman and the public will be seeing a new "face" on the Hanscom public Web site in the coming months. Hanscom, in conjunction with other Air Force Materiel Command bases, is currently consolidating and standardizing all public sites as part of the recent Air Force Public Web initiative, which was directed by the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Public Affairs. Currently, each unit who has a public Web site controls the look and feel of that site, said 1st Lt. Martha Petersante-Gioia, 66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs. Under the new AF Public Web initiative, all information will be standardized with a common brand threading through all sites so that there will be no question in an end users' minds if they are viewing an official Air Force site or not. Hanscom sites affected by this will be all public sites; the Electronic Systems Center's CenterNet and other base intranets will not be affected. Hanscom's scheduled launch date for AFPW is Dec. 8. Approval processes for what is released onto the public Web will be modified, but will not change entirely. Current page masters are required to submit all information to their public affairs office and receive a case number. Under AFPW, all content released onto the bases site will be entered through the Air Force Public Information Management System. Under the AFPIMS hierarchy, a public affairs representative is still required to review all content.Under this new system, web-development knowledge will not be needed by content providers, which will streamline the current news and information cycle, Lieutenant Petersante-Gioia said.