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  • Acquisitions enterprise: Experimentation and agility

    A key leader in Air Force acquisitions testified Jan.7 on Capitol Hill before the House Armed Services Committee on acquisition reform, explaining how the Air Force is improving its acquisitions processes through agility and experimentation.Rich Lombardi, the acting assistant secretary of Air Force

  • Recapitalizing JSTARS: the communication system

    Communication is key.And for the Air Force's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft, its communication component is one of four major areas undergoing a combined multi-billion dollar recapitalization.Since JSTARS's introduction in 1991, Air Force command posts, Army mobile ground

  • First LCMC Focus Week for 2016 begins Jan. 25

    The first Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Focus Week for 2016 will be Jan. 25 to 29 and offer a variety of courses.Courses will take place on-site or via distance learning through Defense Collaboration Services, or DCS. According to organizers, offerings include a wide range of topics

  • Recapitalizing JSTARS: the BMC2 suite

    Hanscom program officials call it the "brain of the plane," and as the epicenter for JSTARS command and control, it's an integral part of the overall Joint Surveillance Target and Attack Radar System recapitalization effort.The battle management command and control suite, also known as BMC2, allows

  • Hanscom employee captures DOD-level award

    The Department of Defense has recognized a Hanscom employee with a prestigious product support award.Perry Hill,  product support manager and chief of logistics for the C3I and Networks Directorate's Space, Aerial and Nuclear Networks Division, recently won the 2015 Secretary of Defense Product

  • DOD CIOs visit area to discuss innovation and collaboration

    The Chief Information Officer for the Department of Defense and the Chief Information Officers for the Joint Staff, Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard, along with more than twenty senior representatives from DoD, Cyber Command and the intelligence community visited the local area Dec. 10 and 11

  • One-of-a-kind radio tower will double HCIC range

    Looming high above the Hanscom Collaboration and Innovation Center is the testing facility's latest upgrade.Recently, the Air Force erected a new 120-foot radio tower for the center, which will inevitably double communication range, correct current line-of-sight issues and support an antenna capable

  • JSTARS Recap reaches Milestone A

    Following a seven-month Materiel Solution Analysis phase, JSTARS Recapitalization program was granted a Milestone A decision by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.The Air Force received OSD-level approval with the signing of a Milestone A acquisition decision

  • Hanscom directorates shine at acquisition awards

    Members of the Battle Management and Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks Directorates received 2015 acquisition management awards during a ceremony Dec. 8.Although the event originated at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, seven operating locations, including Hanscom, connected via

  • BACN continues to sizzle for six more months

    The Hanscom-based Battlefield Airborne Communications Node program, commonly referred to as BACN, recently awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a contract extension valued at more than $120 million, securing the system's future for months to come.The payload operations and sustainment extension will allow