Base and community leaders listen to opening remarks from Lt. Col. Dave Skiba, Partnership Broker, AF Community Partnership Initiative, during the quarterly Hanscom Community Partnership Committee meeting at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., May 12, 2015. The HCPC provides a framework to identify requirements and needs for all partners and develop collaborative, cost-reducing opportunities to address those common needs. The HCPC formalized their partnership during the May 12 meeting with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The MOU was signed by the towns of Bedford, Concord, Lexington and Lincoln, along with the Minute Man National Park, the Bedford VA Medical Center, Massachusetts Port Authority’s Hanscom Field, MassDevelopment and Hanscom AFB. (U.S. Air Force photo by Mark Herlihy)