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  • Battle Management PEO outlines initiatives to industry

    The program executive officer of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's largest directorate addressed a group of industry representatives and Hanscom personnel on top priorities Dec. 2 during a Hanscom Representatives Association meeting here.Steven Wert, Battle Management PEO, touched on the

  • Air Force acquisition lead moves to MITRE

    The Air Force announced Nov. 18 that Dr. William A. LaPlante, the assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, is transitioning from government service to a senior position at the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit organization that operates federally funded research and development

  • Improving mission planning via the Hanscom MilCloud

    A mission planning team here is using the Hanscom MilCloud as a virtual environment in order to improve their acquisition process, including reducing costs, for an upcoming contract award.The System Engineering Integration Contract II, or SEIC II, will have four main goals: minimize costs for

  • Upcoming fraud working group to highlight current issues

    The next Boston Area Fraud Working Group will take place Dec. 3 at 10 a.m. at the U.S. Coast Guard Base in Boston.Topics to be covered during the session include "Insight into Computer Crimes," "Perspectives from the Assistant U.S. Attorney," and "Case Studies:  Counterfeit Military Goods."

  • Securing the future by Bending the Cost Curve

    Bending the Cost Curve, one of the 13 Make Every Dollar Count cost initiatives launched by the Air Force, includes a growing and evolving set of more than 20 acquisition reform activities. These activities are focused on finding ways the Air Force can be more effective at how it spends money to get

  • FAB-T poised for production

    The Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals program at Hanscom AFB received approval to enter Low Rate Initial Production following a recent Milestone C Department of Defense acquisition board meeting.After more than three years of developmental efforts, the program - commonly referred to

  • Radar upgrades ensure situation awareness

    A Battle Management program to improve the reliability and maintainability of U.S. Air Force long-range radar systems reached full operational capability recently when all the operational long-range radar sites were certified and deemed suitable and operationally effective.The AN/FPS-117 is a

  • Foreign military sales programs highlighted to industry

    International and Foreign Military Sales programs were the topic of discussion during the Hanscom Representatives Association meeting here Oct. 13.Speaking to a primarily industry audience, Steve Bessette, system program manager for the FMS division in the Battle Management Directorate at Hanscom