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  • DHA Appointing Portal available to schedule COVID vaccines

    Service members, Air Force civilian employees and TRICARE beneficiaries can now schedule COVID-19 vaccinations through the Defense Health Agency Appointing Portal. The portal can be accessed at informatics-stage.health.mil/COVAX/, and officials from the 66th Medical Squadron said Hanscom personnel

  • Board releases report on fatal motor vehicle accident

    Air Force Materiel Command released findings of the Ground Accident Investigation Board which examined a vehicle accident that claimed the life of a deployed AFMC security forces member in Kuwait on Sept. 12, 2020.

  • Public comments invited on 24-hour gate operations

    The U.S. Air Force announces the availability of a draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for changing the 24-hour access gate designation from the Ruiz Gate to the Sartain Gate here.

  • Patriots’ Day 2021: a Virtual Revolution

    During the month of April, the towns surrounding Hanscom AFB celebrate Patriots’ Day, an annual state holiday commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 that kicked off the American Revolutionary War.

  • ‘Youth of the Year’ named at Hanscom

    A freshman at Bedford High School has been named this year’s Hanscom Youth of the Year. Emily Doucette, who has been a member of the 66th Force Support Squadron Youth Center since 2019, was chosen from three candidates March 30. She will now compete for the Massachusetts Military Youth of the Year

  • MDS, CAT prepare COVID vaccine appointment portal

    Officials from the 66th Medical Squadron will soon offer a COVID vaccination appointment tool to the base population. The publicly accessible Defense Health Agency Appointment Portal will allow select service members, Air Force civilian employees and TRICARE beneficiaries to schedule first and

  • CROWS recognized as leading the way in new GAO report

    A newly published Government Accountability Office report on “Weapon Systems Cybersecurity” identified the U.S. Air Force as the only service that has issued service-wide guidance detailing how acquisition programs should define cybersecurity requirements and incorporate those requirements in

  • EITaaS team stands up new security operations center

    A Hanscom IT team stood up an Enterprise IT-as-a-Service Security Operations Center, referred to as an ESOC, in San Antonio in late February to ingest data from Buckley Garrison, Colorado, and Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. With updated visualization and automation capabilities, the new ESOC will