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  • Next Focus Week begins April 25

    The next Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Focus Week will take place here and via distance learning April 25 to 29.As with previous focus weeks, offerings include a wide range of topics covering general to technical subjects. Some courses to be presented this session are "Acquisition Strategy

  • Upcoming Innovation Exchange opportunity for collaboration

    Hanscom's Engineering and Technical Management Directorate, in conjunction with The MITRE Corp., will host an "Innovation Exchange" April 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Building 1612.The event will offer an opportunity for program office personnel to see the independent research and development work

  • Visit provides acquisition flexibility information, processes

    Members from the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and the Air Force Research Lab visited here March 31 to address flexibility in acquisition with the workforce.The presentations specifically focused on "Other Transaction Authority," explaining what OTA is, how and

  • JSTARS Recapitalization moving forward with radar risk reduction

    The Air Force's JSTARS Recap program took another step forward March 24 with the awarding of two contract actions for radar risk reduction efforts.The Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or JSTARS, is a key warfighting asset that provides airborne battle management command and control and

  • Division ensuring vital systems sustained

    Battle Management's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division here is working to ensure the abilities of the system that warn the president and national command authorities of attacks will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.Officials from the division awarded a $28 million sustainment task

  • Fraud-related training offered April 5-6

    The next Boston Area Fraud Working Group will take place April 5 from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at the Hanscom Conference Center.The training will feature presentations on the following topics: "Corruption in Contracting," presented by FBI Special Agent Jared Hewitt; "National Intellectual Property Rights

  • Raytheon awarded contract for COBRA DANE radar

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center recently awarded a two-year sole source contract to Raytheon for radar maintenance in Alaska.Worth $77 million, the contract covers operations, maintenance and sustainment support for COBRA DANE, one of the largest radars in the Air Force's inventory. The

  • AFMC strategic plan to help carry Air Force to Third Offset

    Agility and innovation are cornerstones of a new Air Force Materiel Command strategic plan that will deliver war-winning capabilities. Those capabilities will propel the Air Force as a key element of the future national defense strategy known as the Third Offset.The first "offset" came in in the

  • Air Force IT Conference returns … with addition of ‘cyberpower’

    The Air Force Information Technology Conference held annually in Montgomery, Alabama, but cancelled in 2012 and following years due to budget constraints is returning to the capital city in 2016 as the rebranded Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference.The AFITC Conference will be

  • AFLCMC commander talks cyber resiliency at symposium

    Cyber resiliency, and how to incorporate it into traditional weapon systems, was the topic of this year's New Horizons Symposium keynote speech, March 1.After emphasizing how the Air Force views cyber as a domain, Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, discussed