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Approaching with ILS

A modified CL-60 Challenger aircraft flies a low level approach past an Instrument Landing System being used in theater in 2007. The 853rd Electronic Systems Group will soon be releasing a request for proposals for a Deployable Instrument Landing System, which will be leaner and more transportable. (AF photo/Airman 1st Class Gustavo Gonzalez)
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TASS in theater

In this 2008 photo, Capt. Steve Smith, then of the 642nd Electronic Systems Squadron, and Valentin Birladeanu of Northrop Grumman Corp. examine Tactical Automated Security System (TASS) upgrades at a base in Southwest Asia. All TASS logistical support is now being performed by the Cryptologic Systems Group, San Antonio, Texas, rather than under contract, which is expected to save the government millions each year. (Courtesy photo)
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New Web Site

The new PKE web site, shown here, will provide real-time contract information.
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French AWACS in flight

French AWACS E-3F aircraft, like the one in flight here, will soon be improved. The Electronic Systems Center recently awarded a contract to upgrade the French AWACS fleet with more modern capabilities. (Courtesy photo)
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Looking at JET

Bruce Shapiro, a member of the Joint Environmental Toolkit (JET) fielding team and retired Air Force weather officer, shows team members Derek Lung and David Lamoreaux meteorological watch functions of the JET. JET is designed to merge and/or sustain current weather collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities. Increment 1 fielding to 181 sites was completed Sept. 30, 2009. (Courtesy photo)
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Countering IEDs

A member of a Capabilities Integration Office (XR) team participates in counter-improvised explosive device testing at Hanscom AFB in October 2008. XR leads technology identification and maturation efforts for the Electronic Systems Center. (US Air Force photo by Rick Berry)
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Port-au-Prince Satellite image

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- A commercial satellite image downloaded and processed by the Eagle Vision System, managed by the Electronic Systems Center here, shows the destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following this week’s massive earthquake there. Such images are helping disaster response officials provide faster and safer assistance to residents there. (USAF image)
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Port-au-Prince image

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- A commercial satellite image downloaded and processed by the Eagle Vision System, managed by the Electronic Systems Center here, shows the destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following this week’s massive earthquake there. Such images are helping disaster response officials provide faster and safer assistance to residents there. (USAF image)
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Combat Track II in use

An aircrew member uses the Combat Track II system, the 500th of which was delivered to the field last month. CT II allows crew aboard the air mobility fleet, as well as on some bombers, to maintain full awareness of friendly and potential hostile aircraft positions. It also alerts them to ground threats, including mobile surface-to-air missile sites. (Courtesy Photo)
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Up on the roof

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Members of a combined Electronic Systems Center-MITRE team assemble a Ground Multi-band Terminal antenna on the roof of a MITRE Bedford, Mass., campus building late last month. Having a system available in the program office allows program officials to troubleshoot reported problems and review terminal changes and enhancements before they’re sent to the field. (USAF Photo by Beth Farrington)
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Putting down the lines

Contractors install conduit lines at Kirkuk Regional Air Base, Iraq, as part of a foreign military sales effort being managed by the Electronic Systems Center’s 853rd Electronic Systems Group. (Courtesy photo)
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Eagle Vision Value

The Eagle Vision imagery collection system, managed by the 950th Electronic Systems Group here, uses commercial satellites to take snapshots of broad areas where homeland defense or operational action might be required. This imagery, taken by the system during the 2008 wildfires in Santa Barbara, Calif., shows active fires along with areas that have already burned. (Courtesy image)
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Calling for help

An individual tests an early iteration of the Combat Survivor Evader Locator Radio near the Southern California facilities of the system’s prime contractor, Boeing Corp. Boeing and the Air Force Electronic Systems Center delivered the 20,000th CSEL radio to operators this fall and are on track to deliver 20,000 more.
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Calling for help

An individual tests an early iteration of the Combat Survivor Evader Locator Radio near the Southern California facilities of the system’s prime contractor, Boeing Corp. Boeing and the Air Force Electronic Systems Center delivered the 20,000th CSEL radio to operators this fall and are on track to deliver 20,000 more. (Courtesy photo)
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Employment Site

The Electronic Systems Center's new employment Web site, shown here, was launched Nov. 9 with the aim of developing a 'branding' campaign to attract potential job applicants to center jobs. The site's debut coincided with Hanscom Air Force Base recently being named one of the Boston Globe's Top 100 Places to Work.
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TTI Inspection

Capt. Max Gulezian, 642nd Electronic Systems Squadron Transformational Technology Insertion program manager, inspects a Wide-Area Surveillance Thermal Imager as part of the TTI equipment suite now installed on the air field tower balcony at Randolph AFB, Texas. The WSTI provides both color and thermal image surveillance capability that is relayed back to a base’s law enforcement desk. (Courtesy photo)
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Wildfire Assistance

HANSCOM AFB, Mass. -- Wildfires continue to burn in northern California. An Electronic Systems Center team recently helped establish remote communications capabilities that are being used for command and control of firefighting efforts there. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Master Sgt. Dennis Martin)
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JET

HANSCOM AFB - Reserve Capt. Dan Zehner uses the Joint Environmental Toolkit Increment 2 to view an enhanced satellite image and an airfield sensor display to monitor weather conditions. JET provides the user with a single, fully integrated system of weather analyses, forecasting, and dissemination capabilities to replace a number of currently separate and disparate systems. (Courtesy photo)
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The TASS

Capt. Steve Smith, 642nd Electronic Systems Squadron tactical systems program manager, and Valentin Birladeanu, head Northrop Grumman contractor for AFCENT Tactical Automated Security System deployment and maintenance, examine upgrades to a long range thermal imager that was recently fielded at a base in Southwest Asia. (Courtesy photo)
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The Gateway

Staff Sgt. Justin Cremer (middle) briefs Marine Corps Lt. Col. Robert Cooper (left) and Maj. Darren Gray on the Air Support Operations Center Gateway Feb. 13 at Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. The Gateway, a vehicle mounted communications system acquired and fielded by the 653rd Electronic Systems Group, recently went through its final tests during an operational readiness exercise before being deployed for theater operations. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Nathan Bevier)
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