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  • Enlisted retention board to convene in June

    An enlisted retention board will convene here in June to consider eligible senior airmen through senior master sergeants for retention, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The enlisted retention program is one of several expanded force management programs that have been or will be implemented

  • AF to mandate organizational, command climate on evaluation, feedback forms

    The Air Force will reinforce its performance evaluation system by requiring evaluators to assess what Airmen did to ensure a healthy organizational climate.Policy modifications, performance feedback, and officer and enlisted evaluation form changes will be implemented Jan. 1.This increased focus is

  • ILC adding new campus on base

    The Information Learning Center, or ILC, is opening a new location at the Resiliency Center Dec. 30, announced 66th Force Support Squadron officials. After the library facility was repurposed in July 2012, FSS developed the ILC concept to provide a functional quiet space that met the demand for

  • Korean, Vietnam War Marine veteran to speak at Heritage of Freedom

    A highly-decorated combat veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars is the scheduled guest speaker for the next Heritage of Freedom event at the Hanscom Conference Center Jan. 23 at 2:30 p.m. Retired U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. William "Wild Bill" Weise was awarded the Navy Cross, Silver Star and

  • Massachusetts Celebrates National Guard's 377th Birthday

    The Massachusetts National Guard marked the 377th birthday of the National Guard here Dec. 13 by holding a grand opening of the new Joint Force Headquarters while also hosting a change of responsibility ceremony for the state command sergeant major position.Outgoing State Command Sgt. Maj. David

  • Force management town hall meetings scheduled

    A Military Force Shaping Town Hall meeting has been scheduled for Airmen to learn more about force shaping programs. The mandatory sessions will address programs that are being offered to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.Fiscal 2014 force

  • AF officials announce FY14 civilian workforce shaping

    The Air Force will reduce the size of its civilian workforce by about 900 positions in addition to maintaining approximately 7,000 vacancies across the force to meet the demands of a constrained fiscal 2014 budget, officials announced. Specific reductions by location have not been determined. The

  • AF announces additional force management programs to reduce force size

    Air Force leaders announced force management programs Dec. 11 designed to reduce the force by thousands of Airmen over the next five years as a result of sequestration.Fiscal 2014 force management initiatives are in addition to the announcement made in July, stating the Air Force will implement

  • CFC wrap-up event planned

    With a little more than a week left in Hanscom's Combined Federal Campaign, organizers have planned a CFC culmination event at the Minuteman Commons Dec. 11 scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.A basket auction, a chili cook off, and a cookie contest are a few of the events scheduled. "This final event will

  • Going home for the holidays

    Thanks to Operation Homefront, a C3I and Networks Directorate Airman will travel home this month for the first time since joining the Air Force nearly two years ago.Airman 1st Class Robert Beaver, a knowledge operations manager, originally from Hilliard, Fla., says that while his younger siblings