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Vol. 5, No.41
October 22, 2009

General discusses innovative comm ideas, calls for more

Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds addresses a luncheon gathering Oct. 19 during MILCOM 2009 at the World Trade Center and Seaport Hotel in Boston. General Bowlds listed several key communication challenges and offered up ideas for meeting them. (USAF Photo by Rick Berry)

By Chuck Paone
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

BOSTON -- Rapid technology evolution, asymmetric threats, constrained defense budgets and a host of other dynamics pose vexing communication challenges, Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds told more than 1,200 conference attendees at a luncheon here Oct. 19.

But "ideas for meeting those challenges abound," the Air Force Electronic Systems Center commander told the audience of industry and government members at MILCOM 2009.

The general said many of those ideas are based on existing commercial products.

"About 90 percent of the things we do at Electronic Systems Center depend on, and drive on, commercial technology that sits out there today," he said. "Most of the systems in our air operations centers ... are things you could go buy commercially." (More)

Heritage of Freedom offers three hard-hitting speakers Oct. 29

By Kevin Gilmartin
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs

A harrowing personal account of a Desert Storm POW, an Electronic Systems Center acquisition success story and a first-hand report of life for today’s Airmen deployed to Iraq will all be featured during the next Heritage of Freedom Speaker Series, set for 4 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Minuteman Club Ballroom.

The Heritage of Freedom Speaker Series is a free, hour-long professional development event that is open to all. Heritage of Freedom is held quarterly, and typically includes three speakers, each of whom discuss their experiences serving in combat or while deployed. Their hard-hitting 15 minute presentations are followed by short question and answer periods. The event is informal, and features free refreshments available throughout the discussions. Attendees are encouraged to remain after the addresses and talk informally with the speakers.

Col. William F. Andrews, an F-16 pilot who was shot down over Iraq and captured on Feb. 27, 1991, will share his experiences as one of only 21 American Desert Storm POWs. The colonel currently teaches at the National Defense University, Fort McNair, Washington D.C.

Colonel Andrews has an operational fighter background. He began flying upon his graduation from the USAF Academy in 1980, with tours in the EF-111, and F-16. He has commanded an F-16 squadron and a composite operations group of fighter, bomber, and tanker squadrons, as well as commanding a forward operating base in the opening months of operation Enduring Freedom. His combat tours include Desert Storm, Southern Watch, and Enduring Freedom.(More)

66 ABW announces third quarter award winners
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Airman Category	NCO Category	SNCO Category	CGO Category	*FGO* Category

Senior Airman Robert S. Bell	Staff Sgt. Lan P. Nguyen	Master Sgt. Donald Gonsalves	1st Lt. Charles Deignan	Maj. Eileen Labrecque


*Civilian Category I*	*Civilian Category II*	*Civilian Category III*	*NAF Civilian Category I*	*NAF Civilian Category II*

Susan Cascalheira	Diane Grant	Dorothy Febbi	Sharyn Ofrias	Kevin Geaney

Upcoming International Forum opportunity

Electronic Systems Center’s International Operations Division and the Air Force Security and Assistance Center, AFSAC, will host an International Forum Oct. 27 in the Command Management Center, bldg. 1606, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The purpose of the forum is to present current policy and challenges to ESC program offices that work in international affairs or foreign military sales. Guest speakers include Brig. Gen. Joseph Lanni, AFSAC commander, and Craig Mallory, deputy chief of the International Armaments Cooperation Division, within the Air Force International Affairs Office.

Attendance is limited to 90 individuals. Register via CenterNet (link to ACQ Now). Attendees will earn two Continuous Learning Points.

For further information, please contact Jim Hogan at (781) 377-0956.

653 ELSW announces third quarter award winners

Airman Category	NCO Category	*SNCO Category*	CGO Category

Senior Airman Matthew Gardner	Tech. Sgt. Debbie Ortega	Sgt. 1st Class Kenny Clark	Capt. Christopher Yates

AWACS on the job, AWACS off to the fight

U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Mike Powers, a weapons system officer from the 960th Expeditionary Airborne Air Control Squadron, monitors air assets during an E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System mission over Afghanistan, Oct. 8, 2009. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Michael B. Keller) (Released)

By Staff Sgt. J.G. Buzanowski
U.S. AFCENT Combat Camera Team

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- No airplane in the world looks like the E-3 Sentry; no other plane does what it can do either.

The Sentry is also known as the Airborne Warning and Control System, or AWACS. With its 30-foot rotating radar mounted on top of the modified 707 airframe, the Sentry and its crews, deployed from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., are the essential link between aircraft and headquarters.

Rows of computer terminals keep the crew in touch with everyone in the fight, whether it's the combined air and space operations center, an F-15E Strike Eagle over Afghanistan or a KC-135R Stratotanker waiting to refuel any aircraft that needs it. (More)

551 ELSW announces third quarter award winners

NCO Category	SNCO Category	FGO Category

Tech. Sgt. Tiffany Rosebush	Master Sgt. Walter Bevens	Maj. Phillip Corbell


Civilian Category I	Civilian Category II	Civilian Category III

Patrick Hamilton	Colleen Jacquet	Mark Lawrence

Not pictured: Team Award: LAIRCM Team

Harold M. Wright Award finalists announced

By Maj. Edward Byrne
851st Electronic Systems Group

Finalists for the Harold M. Wright Award, given annually to two Electronic Systems Center employees who have made outstanding contributions to ESC’s mission, have been announced.

The award is given in honor of Harold M. Wright, the Electronic Systems Division commander’s chief technical adviser from 1969 until his retirement in 1973. The awards are presented in two categories: GS-13 and below and GM/GS-14 and above. They recognize individuals who have performed above and beyond their task requirements and displayed dedication, objectivity and interest in helping others with their craft. (More)

Command Visit

Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, discusses force protection with 2nd Lt. Cameron Linder and Lt. Col. Andrew Nicklas of the 642nd Electronic Systems Squadron during an Oct. 14 visit to the 46th Test Wing Site C-3 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. During the general's visit, Lieutenant Linder provided him with an overview of the Automated Installation Entry Control System/Visitor Center Enrollment System, which the 642 ELSS recently installed and integrated at Eglin. (USAF photo by Bruce Hoffman)

Admiral Cites Need to Prepare for All Threats

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON – Military commanders of the future should be proficient at managing high-tech communications networks and also should know how to wage conventional, irregular and hybrid warfare, a senior U.S. Navy officer said here Oct. 19.

A rapidly changing world presents an array of new threats and challenges to U.S. national security, Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward, deputy commander for U.S. Forces Command, based at Norfolk, Va., told attendees at the annual C4ISR Journal Integration Conference held in Arlington, Va.

C4ISR is military shorthand for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.

“To look at the world that we’re in right now we’re in constant conflict. … As we see the future, that leader is going to be critical,” Harward said.

Space-based and aerial sensor equipment, part of the military’s C4ISR infrastructure, provides joint commanders added sets of “eyes” used to survey the battle space, Harward said. Yet, he added, those same commanders must be able to understand, manage and act on the information they’re receiving. (More)

Gergen gets MILCOM going

David Gergen, who served as a White House adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton, kicks off MILCOM 2009 in Boston this week, with a speech Oct. 19. MILCOM featured speeches by many other current and former military and civil agency leaders, as well as technical breakout sessions that focused on the nuances and latest developments in military communications. ESC’s 653d Electronic Systems Wing and local members of the Lexington-Concord Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association helped organize and execute the multi-day event. (Photo by Steve Mason, General Dynamics)

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Battlefield Intelligence: Easy to Collect, Tough to Share
-- National Defense
The U.S. military has deployed unmanned aircraft and other information collection devices at a pace that exceeds the capabilities of battlefield intelligence systems to archive, analyze and disseminate the video and imagery.

No Pie in the Sky
-- Aviation Week & Space Technology
In the midst of a deeply entrenched identity crisis, the U.S. Air Force is turning to technology as the potential answer to some of its problems.

DOD budget forecast threatens new technology deployments
-- Defense Systems
Personnel and equipment costs might cut deeply into key defense acquisition programs over the next several years, reports Michael Bruno at Aviation Week.

Pentagon backs off cloud availability claims
-- Network World
Days after claiming 99.999% availability for its new cloud computing service, a U.S. Defense Department spokesman says he misspoke and meant to say the agency is achieving 99.99% availability instead.

Consortium Offers Guidelines for Network Interoperability
-- Defense News
An industry group is publicly releasing its first set of guidelines for network interoperability in an effort to get contractors on the same page when it comes to making information networks that can operate with each other.

Airpower for Hybrid War
-- Air Force Magazine
In the early years of the new century, huge force-on-force clashes and low-level irregular warfare aren’t the only threats faced by US military forces.

Showcasing Mass. and the military
-- Boston Globe
It’s like many of the technology conferences that come through Boston on a regular basis, with a few crucial differences:

command comments ...

... At DOD, we’ve found innovative ways to partner with industry to protect sensitive defense information on their systems. We’re sharing more threat information. Industry is reporting more of their intrusions and we’re working together to help strengthen both of our networks. It’s a model of cooperation that we’re sharing with DHS as it partners with other parts of industry to better protect the nation’s critical infrastructure.

And I would add that we have a responsibility to collaborate with other countries. Many of the cyber attacks on U.S. networks originate overseas. Botnet attacks involve computers all over the world. Protecting ourselves will require that we address complex issues of national sovereignty and international law. But no single country can do that alone. ...

-- Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn, III, at Cyber Security Awareness Month
Kick-Off, Oct. 1, 2009

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