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  • Air Force awards Application Services Small Business Companion contract

    The Air Force is announcing the award of 12 contracts worth up to $960 million that will make it quicker and easier for the warfighter to obtain innovative information technology services and capabilities covering the full spectrum of operations and missions.The Air Force's Network Centric

  • ESC efforts help ensure safe delivery of supplies

    An Electronic Systems Center program to ensure cargo airdrops can be redirected in flight recently had its first mission in an area of operations. The Dynamic Retasking Capability (DRC) Urgent Operational Need (UON) system allows for C-17 or C-130J aircraft to have threat awareness, weather

  • AFMC ready to transition to 5-Center construct

    With three major milestones complete, Air Force Materiel Command officials are ready to consolidate the number of centers as part of its command-wide transition to the 5-Center construct.Centers will be activated at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, and Tinker AFB, Okla., in the coming weeks. At Edwards

  • ESC working to provide upgrades for U.S. and NATO AWACS aircraft

    The Electronic Systems Center recently negotiated an undefinitized contract action, or UCA, with the Boeing Company on a cooperative program between NATO and the United States to upgrade the flight deck avionics on the E-3 Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. The action moves the

  • Warfighting data becoming easier to find and retrieve

    Recent contract awards by the Electronic Systems Center are helping to ensure that warfighters using a key intelligence system can discover and access needed information.The Distributed Common Ground/Surface System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB) consists of a common set of services and standards

  • Gen. Wolfenbarger receives fourth star, assumes leadership of AFMC

    Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger became the first female four-star general in the Air Force and assumed the top position of the major command responsible for the technology, acquisition, test and sustainment of the service's current and future weapon systems during ceremonies here June 5, 2012.Wolfenbarger

  • AFITC 2012 canceled

    Due to budgetary concerns, the 2012 Air Force Information Technology Conference (AFITC) has been canceled.Held annually in Montgomery, Ala., this year's conference was scheduled to be held Aug. 27-29. The principal driver for the cancellation is the travel cost for Air Force and government

  • Career comes "full circle" for retiring colonel

    As Col. Stacy McNutt, Battle Management deputy director, prepares to retire from the Air Force, she is pleased to be finishing that work at Hanscom. "It brings my career full circle," she said. In her current assignment, she added, she's had the privilege to work with people that she originally

  • Aerospace Sustainment Directorates to play big role in AFLCMC

    Ask anyone associated with the planning effort to standup the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and they will agree on one thing: It isn't easy.The concept of creating a single organization responsible for cradle to grave weapon system management has been proposed before, but not fully