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

Collaboration key to connectivity

The Satellite Terminal Program Office here recently collaborated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the MITRE Corp. and industry partners on testing to improve beyond-line-of-sight communications for contested operations.Last year, Hanscom-sponsored engineers began working to demonstrate that a

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Junior acquirers share knowledge, experience to address challenges

A group of junior acquisition professionals from across the installation held an event here Feb. 23 to 25 to collaborate on solutions to acquisition challenges.Known throughout the Air Force acquisition community as the Revolutionary Acquisition Techniques Procedures and Collaboration, or RATPAC,