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  • Allied C2 Capabilities RAMPed Up

    RAMP, the Royal Saudi Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control Systems Modernization Program, is an extensive mission computing and communications upgrade program, turning current Block 30/35 AWACS into the 40/45 configuration. The International Airborne Battle Management Command and

  • AFLCMC ‘entwined’ with senior leader goals

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- Air Force acquisition is battling the pincer effect of shrinking workforces and expanding portfolios, according to Lt. Gen. Robert McMurry, who spoke at a defense industry event in Bedford, Massachusetts, Thursday.  McMurry, commander of the Air Force Life Cycle

  • Know the threat in two minutes

    Following the Chattanooga shooting, then-Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter instructed the services to review their security standards. The Air Force’s objectives include increasing the speed and penetration of its emergency notification systems operating on desktops, email, text messages and

  • Hanscom studies clouds for combat

    The Cloud Analysis and Modeling Prototype, or CAMP project, uses the relief efforts staged following 2005’s Hurricane Katrina as a model for major military operations in which many users require access to multiple tiers of information hosted on an open cloud. The period of performance for the MOC

  • Hanscom team brought crazy 2017 weather into focus

    The weather systems branch manages all weather detection systems, and worked during 2017 to protect them from ransomware computer viruses, while trying to keep sustainment costs as low as possible. The point of weather data collection, compilation and modeling is to provide commanders with

  • Center commander to present State of LCMC

    Lt. Gen. Robert D. McMurry, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, will deliver a State of LCMC address at a luncheon meeting Jan. 25 at 11:30 a.m.

  • How to speedily procure secure software. Really.

    Developed in 2016, the three-month Advanced Tactical Acquisition Corps program selects up-and-coming acquisition professionals across the acquisition community and charges them to develop solutions to the biggest problems in military procurement.The team tackled how to acquire software using agile

  • New contracting chief: Love the gray matter

    The lifelong civil servant was born on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, and is the son of an Air Force staff sergeant, who was a cook. Braswell has eight children and, so far, twelve grandchildren. Now that he’s arrived at Hanscom, Braswell’s already scanned local university sports schedules for