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Secretary Donley credits Airmen during 'State of the Air Force' speech
By Tech.
Sgt. Amaani Lyle 9/14/2009 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- The
Secretary of the Air Force outlined the service's priorities
during a keynote address at the 2009 Air Force Association Air &
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Hanscom to host Cursor on Target users meeting next week By Chuck Paone66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
Looking to bring together a diverse and constantly growing
community of users, the Electronic Systems Center here will
host meetings and demonstrations next week for users of the
Cursor on Target, or CoT, technology.
The 653d Electronic Systems Wing's Enterprise Integration Division will host the CoT Users conference Sept. 23 and 24. Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds will present the kick-off address to more than 200 attendees representing over 50 government and industry organizations. CoT is a simple, powerful method of communicating situational awareness data, one that doesn't try to do too much, according to Capt. Todd Watson, the program manager. "CoT focuses on three basic questions: what, where and when," he said. For special operations personnel and others operating in a battlefield environment, where time is critical and bandwidth extremely limited, only the minimal essential information can be passed and processed. The XML-based template, or schema, undergirding CoT does just that. It was developed by MITRE in support of ESC following a 2002 charge by then-Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper. (More) |
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Stage is set for successful C2ISR symposium Sept. 28-30 By Kevin Gilmartin66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs The speakers are lined up and the stage is set for a vigorous discussion of Air Force command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance during the C2ISR Symposium and Technology Exposition Sept. 28-30 at the MGM Grand Hotel at Foxwoods in Ledyard, Conn. While spaces are filling up quickly, event
planners said there is still time for people to register for the
symposium, which costs $350 for government civilians and
military members, and $425 for industry.
To sign up on line, go to
www.paulrevereafa.org
and click on the symposium link. During the registration
process, attendees will be able to reserve a room at the MGM or
other participating hotels at Foxwoods by clicking on a link
that will take them to the hotel’s registration page. The symposium, co-sponsored by Electronic Systems Center and the Paul Revere Chapter of the Air Force Association, will feature a number of high-level military speakers, including Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, U.S. Strategic Command Commander Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, and Air Force Space Command Commander Gen. C. Robert Kehler. The event will also feature leading edge industry speakers, including retired Gen. John P. Jumper, who served as Air Force chief of staff from 2001 to 2005Google’s chief technology officer, Michael Jones, who co-founded Google Earth, and noted futurist Dr. James Canton of the Institute for Global Futures. (More)
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Improvement plan realigns acquisition wings as directorates
The impact of realignment primarily will
affect Air Force Materiel Command organizations. The targeted
implementation date for AFMC is June 30, 2010. One Air Force
Space Command organization, the Space and Missile Systems Center
at Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif., also is included in the
wing-to-directorate realignment. The target implementation date
there is Oct. 1, 2010. |
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Final agenda set for next week's net-centric ops conference With the
addition of Stephan Rejto, director of Net-Centric Operations
for MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory,
organizers have now
finalized the agenda for the 7th annual Net-Centric
Operations Conference and golf outing Sept. 21 and 22 at the
Wentworth-by-the-Sea Marriott in New Castle N.H. The conference, with a theme of “Enabling the Warfighter to Leverage Net-Centric and Cyber Capabilities,” will be held Sept. 21, and feature a number of speakers from Electronic Systems Center, including a keynote address by ESC Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds.
Lt. Gen. William T. Lord, chief of Warfighting Integration and
Chief information officer for the Air Force, is also a featured
presenter. According to Ron Mason,
653d Electronic Systems Wing director and government conference
lead, the objective of the conference is to increase industry’s
knowledge and understanding of net-centric and cyber warfare
requirements and the technologies associated with those
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Lieutenant Colonel promotions announced
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Workforce Development Week features Acquisition Reform briefing Sept. 24 By Kevin Gilmartin September’s Workforce Development Week
is underway, but there is still time to sign up for several new
courses being offered. |
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554th woman named command’s nominee
for National Public Service Award
By Danna
Plewe
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Experience can be the best teacher, but for Rhonda Gullette, program manager for the 554th Electronic Systems Group Operations Management Division here, it’s a great motivator as well. Recently recognized as the 2010 National Public Service Award AFMC nominee to the Air Force level award recognition, Ms. Gullette accomplishments reflect a career of giving back that began in her childhood and continues today. “From a young age, my mother instilled in me the desire to give back to the less fortunate and my community,” Ms. Gullette said. “She taught me to make a difference where I was planted. My family served food and contributed financially to the less fortunate. We weren’t well-to-do, but my mother believed that everyone should contribute and could make the world a better place.” Ms. Gullette’s personal growth through community service continued into her college years at Central State University. Ms. Gullette, a member of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, mentored young women on building confidence and self-esteem, using her own experiences to convey that belief in one’s self is the key to success. In 1986, Ms. Gullette began her career with the DoD, starting out as a logistics management specialist. During her 20 years of service, she has served as an action officer, logistics manager and program manager. Throughout this time, Ms. Gullette has continued to honor her mother’s teachings though service. She has worked with battered women’s shelters and local churches, providing support such as career counseling, clothing and food. She helped raise more than 1,000 pounds of school supplies for the children of war-torn Iraq. She has also contributed to the post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts in New Orleans. (More) |
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the news ... Use of these articles does not reflect official endorsement. Reproduction for private use or gain is subject to original copyright restrictions. USAF Looks to Solve Data Hodgepodge -- ARES/Aviation Week Network-centric warfare (NCW) relies too much on dissimilar tactical network technology and voice communications, plus a jumble of aging legacy systems that further handicaps interoperability.
Airborne intelligence platform joins Army
exercise
USAF Imagery Exploitation System Readied
for Operations -- Air Force Times After working in “temporary” quarters for better than six years, the staff of the Combined Air Operations Center for Air Forces Central Command has moved into its new operations hub.
FY2010 Air Force
Budget: Do more with a lot less
editorials and opinion ... -- Air Force Times The budget cutters are at it again. Now they’re after the E-8C Block 20 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, known as Joint-STARS, the only Air Force aircraft capable of broadly monitoring enemy ground movements. |
command comments ... ... As we reflect on the last
12 months, it is important that we measure our
progress not based on tactical events, such as
programmatic decisions, press clippings, or blog
entries. We must take a broader, strategic
view, and consider what we have, at least in
part, achieved.
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