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A collection of
news and information specifically for the C4ISR community
Vol. 4, No. 42
October 30, 2008 |
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Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted
Bowlds pumps up the crowd during Hanscom's Unit
Compliance Inspection pep rally Oct. 24 in the
Tennis Bubble.
(Photo by Rick
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ESC commander
welcomes UCI team
Air Force
Materiel Command UCI Team Members:
On behalf of all the men and women of Electronic Systems Center,
welcome to Hanscom!
We have been working hard for several months to prepare for your
visit, and we are anxious to showcase our preparation and skills
for you during this Unit Compliance Inspection. Over the next 10
days, we look forward to demonstrating to you our focus on
compliance and readiness.
As you know, it takes a lot of hard work and preparation to be
successful during a UCI, but it also takes great people. And
that’s what we have here at Hanscom.
I am very proud of the talented military members, civilians and
contractors who make up the Electronic Systems Center and
Hanscom team.
During your inspection, I encourage you to talk with these men
and women and learn first-hand their level of dedication to
serving our Air Force. I am sure you will share my deep pride as
you watch the members of the ESC and Hanscom team demonstrate
the skills they have perfected to preserve our freedom.
Thanks for coming, and enjoy your visit to Hanscom!
TED F. BOWLDS, Lt. Gen., USAF
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Hanscom team works to lower
person-borne IED threat
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Mike Nolan, a
business development manager for Vectronix Inc.,
uses infrared technology to look for simulated
improvised explosive devices being carried by test
subjects at Hanscom Oct. 23. The tests being
conducted by the Air Force Counter-IED Office at
Hanscom are expected to pinpoint technologies that
can reduce suicide bombing threats in theater.
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By Chuck Paone
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
An Electronic
Systems Center office is working to minimize the threat of
suicide bombings at the entry points of controlled access zones
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The team has been working since late September to rapidly
evaluate technologies designed to detect what are known as
person-borne improvised explosive devices, or PBIEDs. The team,
which serves as the Air Force Counter-IED Office, brought four
contractors here during the last week of September and five more
during the week of Oct. 20 to 24.
Each one was given a four-hour block to run its technologies
through a precise testing protocol that required them to set up
some distance away from a "target" zone. Inside the zone, a
series of test subjects wearing loose-fitting robes over their
clothes, meant to replicate those routinely worn in Afghanistan,
entered one by one. Each walked forward and then retreated past
a string of orange cones, allowing the detectors to examine them
front and back.
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Command presentation
Gen. Bruce Carlson,
commander of Air Force Materiel Command, addresses the
audience for the Electronic Systems Center's Shiely, Wright
and O'Neill Awards Banquet at Hanscom's Minuteman Club last
night. General Carlson also joined Assistant Secretary of
the Air Force for Acquisition Sue Payton and several other
senior Air Force leaders for the Command and Control and
Combat Support Acquisition Portfolio review at Hanscom Oct.
29 and 30.
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Linda LaBonte-Britt) |
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New ESC executive director is home at
Hanscom
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Rich Lombardi,
who came aboard as the Electronic Systems Center
executive director Oct. 27, shares a smile with his
executive officer, Patricia Springer, during his
first official day on the job. Mr. Lombardi, a
member of the Senior Executive Service, had most
recently served as the Air Force’s Budget Investment
director. (Photo by Rick Berry)
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By Chuck
Paone
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
Rich Lombardi, who came aboard as executive director of the
Electronic Systems Center this week, is happy to be back
where he started bagging groceries some 35 years ago.
Now the top civilian employee of a 12,000-person product
center, Mr. Lombardi reminisces fondly about his days as a
high school student stationed at Hanscom who earned his
spending money working at the base commissary.
"In as much as any military brat can ever say a place is
home, this, for me, is home," he said. "This is where our
family settled, and Bedford is where I attended and
graduated high school, so having the chance to come back is
very special."
His father, Norm, began what would become his final
active-duty Air Force assignment at Hanscom in 1971, when
Rich Lombardi was in eighth grade. Norm Lombardi stayed on
at Hanscom in various capacities - active-duty, civilian and
contractor - for 33 years, finally retiring in 2004.
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2008 Shiely, Wright and O'Neill Awards
recognize acquisition excellence
The Electronic Systems Center
honored its best of the best for acquisition excellence on Oct.
29 at a packed Hanscom Minuteman Club during the 2008 Shiely,
Wright and O'Neill Awards Banquet.
General Bruce Carlson, Air Force Materiel Command commander, was
the guest speaker for the banquet and joined Electronic Systems
Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds in presenting the awards.
The first award presented was the Harold M. Wright award which
is given annually to two civilian employees within ESC,
recognizing them for their outstanding contributions to the
center's mission. The award is given in honor of Harold M.
Wright, the then-Electronic Systems Division commander's chief
technical advisor, from 1969 until his retirement in 1973.
The awards are presented in two categories -- GS-13 and below
and GS-14 and above. The 2008 winners of the Harold M. Wright
Award are David Setser, 551st Electronic Systems Wing, in the
GS-14 and above category, and Linda Sasser, ESC Contracting
Division, in the GS-13 and below category.
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Click here to see a video
presentation that includes all Shiely, Wright and O'Neill award
nominees.
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David
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Linda
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Lt. Col.
Brian Ruhm |
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Capt.
Louis Duncan |
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Air Force leaders work to develop
cyberspace roadmap
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE
BASE, La. -- Air Force leaders
here continue to create a roadmap of the service's cyberspace
mission while adjusting to a new organizational construct outlined
by Air Force officials in October.
Officials from the Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional) team here
and Air Force Space Command are moving forward with creating a
roadmap for how the two organizations will jointly shape the Air
Force cyberspace mission.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz announced Oct. 8 that
there would no longer be a new major command developed for
cyberspace operations. Instead Air Force officials would continue
with standing up a component-numbered Air Force, which will focus on
cyberspace warfighting operations. All other administrative, policy
and organize-train-equip oversight now falls under Air Force Space
Command.
The AFCYBER (P) team, led by Maj. Gen. William T. Lord, will stay
formed so they can assist in developing this roadmap, which will
outline the actions needed to transition the work done this past
year over to Space Command. The provisional team will also assist
with other tasks as needed until the new organizational construct is
formalized.
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551st ELSW
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Staff Sgt.
Tiffany Rosebush |
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Master Sgt.
Jack Bolinger |
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Capt.
Erik Rhylander |
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Maj.
DeLeon Narcisse |
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Sr. Civilian
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Sr. Civilian
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David Kondradt |
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Pamela Condino |
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pictured: Junior CGO of the Quarter, 1st Lt.
Daniel Currie
Team of the Quarter, Line-of-Sight/Beyond Line-of-Sight
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Hanscom History: Flight from auxiliary
airstrip to major electronics center
-- Bedford (Mass.) Minuteman
Hanscom Field owes its existence to fog.
The sea mists and low clouds that often surround water-bound Logan
Airport were major concerns of America’s military and civilian
leaders in the early years of World War II and motivated them to
push for the development of an inland air field.
Hanscom charts own flight path
-- Bedford (Mass.) Minuteman
Hanscom Air Force Base, 20 miles northwest of Boston on 846 acres of
land in the historic towns of Lincoln, Lexington, Concord and
Bedford, is alive, well and poised for the long haul.
Donley taps
CNA to assess acquisition enterprise, recommend reforms
-- Inside the Air Force
The Air Force has hired CNA, formerly the Center for Naval Analyses,
to conduct a soup-to-nuts assessment of its acquisition system as
part of an effort to chart a remedial course for the service’s
weapon system procurement enterprise ...
DOD: Controlled but unclassified data is
leaking
-- Federal Computer Week
Controlled but unclassified Defense Department information is
leaking to the public from thousands of Web sites sponsored by DOD,
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In new doctrine, Air Force eyes 'freedom
of action' in cyberspace
-- Inside the Air Force
Taking a cue from the 2006 National Space Strategy, Air Force
leaders are poised to unveil new doctrine later this year that would
make “freedom of action” in cyberspace a key service policy,
according to sources and documents.
Advisers: Overhaul DoD arms buying
-- Defense News
U.S. combatant commanders, not service branches, should write
weapons requirements, according to the Defense Business Board. |
command comments ...
...Try as we might,
and hope as we will, the power of nuclear
weapons and their strategic impact is a genie
that cannot be put back in the bottle – at least
for a very long time. While we have a long-term
goal of abolishing nuclear weapons once and for
all, given the world in which we live, we have
to be realistic about that proposition.
What seems to work best in world affairs,
historian Donald Kagan wrote in his book On the
Origins of War, “Is the possession by those
states who wish to preserve the peace of the
preponderant power and of the will to accept the
burdens and responsibilities required to achieve
that purpose.” Now, if we accept that nuclear
weapons are still relevant – and indeed,
necessary – then we also have to accept certain
responsibilities."
--
Secretary of Defense
Robert M. Gates
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