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  • Key Joint STARS equipment upgrades in the works

    The Electronic Systems Center is working to upgrade critical mission equipment on the E-8 Joint STARS aircraft and recent flight testing is proving successful and advancing the program.Joint STARS is an airborne battle management, command and control and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance

  • ESC personnel at Offutt receive honor

    Electronic Systems Center personnel located at Offutt AFB, Neb., are part of a team that was recently honored with a Joint Functional Component Command - Global Strike 2011 annual award in the "Team" category.The Integrated Strategic Planning and Analysis Network program's Mission Planning and

  • Clark: speed, innovation make the difference

    A constrained budget environment creates opportunities for dynamic innovations, a top Air Force official said during a government-industry gathering here March 21.Speaking at a luncheon sponsored by the Patriots' Roost Chapter of the Association of Old Crows, James (Snake) Clark, the Air Force

  • ESC deployable air traffic control system program back on track

    An Electronic Systems Center program to provide a new deployable air traffic control system is moving forward again after budgetary challenges.The Deployable Radar Approach Control, or D-RAPCON, will provide worldwide expeditionary approach and en route surveillance for joint, coalition and civil

  • ESC helping to achieve successful transition

    Detailed planning for Air Force Materiel Command's five-center transition is well under way, with some 50 people from across the Electronic Systems Center working hard to ensure the transition to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will be a success."Lots of planning and hard work has already

  • Symposium brings ESC leaders and industry together

    Integration, synergies and efficiencies were the common threads highlighted at the New Horizons Symposium, held Feb. 28-29 at the Marriott Hotel. "All of us here have some kind of responsibility to figure out how to spend C2 [command and control] dollars more efficiently," said Lt. Gen. CR Davis,

  • President nominates Gen. Moore as new AFLCMC commander

    The President has nominated Air Force Materiel Command Vice Commander Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II for appointment as commander of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center. The nomination was announced by Air Force officials Feb. 29, 2012. Pending Senate confirmation, General Moore will lead the new

  • ESC junior engineers compete in Innovation Challenge

    Two teams from the Electronic Systems Center are in a fierce competition to deliver a new wireless communication capability for the deployed warfighter and recently presented their final concept briefings as part of ESC's Innovation Challenge. Similar to the Air Force Research Laboratory Commander's

  • ESC achieves milestone with final delivery of upgraded SATCOM terminal

    A key Electronic Systems Center satellite communications terminal program recently met a significant milestone when the government accepted the final terminal."The Ground Multi-band Terminal, or GMT, program was created to replace the shortfalls of existing Ground Mobil Forces SATCOM [satellite