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  • Hanscom’s A&FRC to host job fair

    Dozens of employers will be available at a job fair at the Minuteman Commons here on Thursday, Oct. 4, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.

  • Financial education available for Airmen

    The Airman and Family Center here recently hired a contracted personal financial counselor to assist service members here with financial readiness through one-on-one counseling and financial briefings.
  • Romania receives final three F-16s from Portugal

    Lt. aids Romanian allies with flight line ops

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – 1st Lt. Eric Fonnesbeck learned Romanian during a missionary trip for his church in 2010 and used that knowledge in 2018 to help the Romanian Air Force setup an airstrip for F-16s. The trip to Romania was a departure from his day job as a data analytics program manager in the Command, Control, Communications,
  • Command chief hosts monthly development sessions

    Command chief hosts monthly development sessions

    Chief Master Sgt. Henry Hayes, the installation command chief, opens his office the third Tuesday of every month to meet with personnel here to discuss a wide range of topics.
  • Secretary of the Air Force urges innovation in software acquisition model

    Secretary of the Air Force urges innovation in software acquisition model

    The process used by the Air Force to acquire software is archaic and needs to modernize now if the service is to win in a peer-to-peer conflict, said Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson. The secretary made those observations and gave a glimpse into the future of software acquisition during her keynote presentation Aug. 27 at the Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Patches

    AFMC history office plays key role in OCP emblem-to-patch conversion

    Since early recorded history, warring tribes often carried banners or flags marked with emblems to represent factions and motivate their warriors to fight for the cause. It is to this historical tradition that we can trace the evolution of military emblems and patches. As the Air Force begins transitioning from the current Airman Battle Uniform to the Operational Camouflage Pattern, there is a renewed focus on emblems and patches across Air Force units, as Airmen will once again be able to wear unit patches on their sleeves, which had been phased out when the ABU was deployed in 2007.

  • Residency and income tax relief

    Among many other protections, the Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act, or SCRA, provides military taxpayers with relief from double state income taxation.
  • Daniel Harvey, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center-Hanscom’s Financial Management chief, gives the senior foreign military sales analyst of the year award to Sarah Flaherty, Battle Management division’s mission planning foreign military sales budget chief, during the FM annual award ceremony August 29, at the Hanscom Conference Center, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Flaherty works 55 FMS cases for 35 countries, and is the president of the local chapter of the American Society of Military Comptrollers. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Jerry Saslav)

    Financial managers tally ten center awards

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Ten financial managers from Air Force Life Cycle Management Center-Hanscom earned annual awards for keeping the books on weapons system acquisitions and Foreign Military Sales this year. Center officials announced the awards during the sixth annual ceremony, on base, August 29.Two individuals won in the “big-5”
  • Maj. Andrew Travis, right, Battle Management directorate weather division staff meteorologist speaks with Ted Papadopoulos, a foreign military sales chief engineer and Janna Miller, an FMS lead engineer at the Weather Engineering Facility ribbon cutting ceremony, Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., Sept 5.

    Technicians to test tactical weather systems at new engineering facility

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – A Weather Engineering Facility opening Sept. 5 will give engineers the ability to test and improve nine weather systems used on military installations throughout the world. The WEF, resembling rows of increasingly complex antennae and radar domes, gives Hanscom’s weather engineers a chance to examine multiple types
  • National park exhibit opens with loaned Hanscom artifacts

    National park exhibit opens with loaned Hanscom artifacts

    A new Revolutionary War exhibit at the Minute Man National Park in Concord, Massachusetts, includes artifacts discovered on the installation during archaeological surveys conducted more than 10 years ago.
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