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Commander says
center restructure on track
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Ted Bowlds told a large crowd packed into the Hanscom AFB Aero Club May 20 that center restructuring plans are proceeding on schedule. The center will hold a large wing stand-down ceremony June 30 at Hanscom starting at 10 a.m., he said, noting that ESC's four acquisition wings, as well as the 66th ABW, will be inactivated "with dignity." The acquisition wings are being replaced with directorate structures led by program executive officers - six in all. For most of the five-plus years that ESC's acquisition enterprise had been organized by wings groups and squadrons, the center commander stood as the sole PEO for the entire portfolio of programs. (More) |
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Memorial Day
calls for reflection on service, sacrifice of others
Commander, Air Force Materiel Command Throughout my Air Force career, I've often reflected on the meanings of service and sacrifice. I'm proud of the service and sacrifices our men and women in uniform make every day so we, and all Americans, can enjoy our many freedoms. However, when I attended the reunion of the famed Doolittle Raiders last month, I was sharply reminded of just how great the sacrifice is for some. Eighty brave Airmen took off on the Raiders' mission, but not all returned. Since that famous mission in which the Raiders, under the command of Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle, bombed Tokyo, all but eight men who survived the raid have passed away. (More) |
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Retiring 554
ELSW director emphasizes importance of all contributions
66th Air Base Wing Public Affairs Providing an environment where people feel like they are a truly integral part of the team, ensuring all voices are heard, and being a mentor and coach are some of the impacts the retiring 554th Electronic Systems acting wing director, Col. Derrick M. Richardson, said he hoped he had achieved. “Each individual’s contribution - no matter how small - is significant and necessary for us to effectively field and sustain the combat mission support information technology capability we provide,” he said. Throughout his 27-year career, Colonel Richardson worked in a variety of acquisition positions, including aircraft, weapons, propulsion and space launch systems, but before he arrived at the Electronic Systems Center in 2007, he had had never worked in information technology. Freely admitting he had “no clue” about what the organization did when he was first contacted to be the vice director, Colonel Richardson said it wasn’t until Senior Executive Service member Frank Weber, the 554 ELSW director at the time, mentioned the Air Force Portal (part of the Global Combat Support System-Air Force) that he made the connection that the organization was about combat and mission support IT systems. (More) |
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Portal offers
new secure network tool similar to Facebook
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- Air
Force Portal Web designers are keeping up with the Web 2.0 era
by offering portal users a new means to engage in professional
communications in a secure social media environment. |
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Government and
industry members discuss collaboration at IT summit
754th Electronic Systems Group More than 800 members of the information technology community representing both government and industry gathered May 17-19 at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel and Spa Conference Center in Montgomery, Ala., to talk about how to best get the latest and greatest IT capabilities into the hands of our country’s warfighters during the 16th annual Montgomery IT Summit (MITS) 2010. Themed: “Delivering Tomorrow’s IT Capabilities Today!” the event featured speakers representing the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, the Air Force Materiel Command and the 24th Air Force. The speakers gave attendees insight into how the Air Force and Department of Defense are leveraging IT and the cyberspace domain to win today’s fight. John Garing, DISA’s director of Strategic Planning and Information, spoke about how a centralized telecommunications infrastructure between the services encourages innovation at all levels, allows for quicker collaboration between agencies, and increases security. “All companies benefit when they don’t have to focus on the infrastructure,” he said. Collaboration and partnerships between government and industry was further stressed by Art Wachdorf, 24th Air Force’s Network Operations senior advisor for Intelligence and Cyber Operations. He said the focus has gone away from defending the network to mission assurance. This requires a strong partnership because “cyber is not an individual sport; it’s a team sport.” (More)
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AFA chapter to hold membership drive June 4 The Paul Revere Chapter of the Air Force Association is hosting a Membership Drive in conjunction with First Friday, June 4, 2010, at the Minuteman Club at Hanscom Air Force Base from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Current and potential members are invited to attend and
participate in drawings for prizes.
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Air Force
transitions from NSPS to GS
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (AFNS)
-- Most Air Force civilians under the National Security
Personnel System will convert to the General Schedule by the end
of this fiscal year in support of the Department of Defense goal
to convert out as quickly as possible. This conversion out of
NSPS was mandated by the Fiscal 2010 National Defense
Authorization Act. |
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the news ... The following items have recently run in commercial news media outlets. They have not been produced by the U.S. Air Force, nor does their use reflect official endorsement. Reproduction for private use or gain is subject to original copyright restrictions. Cyber Challenge: 10,000 security warriors wanted -- Government Computer News Karen Evans understands the need for online security — and for people who really know how to implement it properly. DoD: U.S. Space Industry May Lose Edge -- Defense News The dominance of the U.S. space industry is threatened by European and Asian firms, the Pentagon's industrial policy chief said May 25. U.S. puts video management upgrade put on hold -- C4ISR Journal U.S. Central Command has said “no thanks” to a $29 million system of video management computers and software that Joint Forces Command had planned to start sending to Afghanistan in April. FAA awards $4.4 billion for development of NextGen technologies -- NextGov The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday awarded $4.4 billion in industry contracts to support its overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system. JTRS puts networking waveforms to the test -- Defense Systems The Joint Tactical Radio System Network Enterprise Domain office is responsible for the three primary networking waveforms — the Wideband Networking Waveform (WNW), Soldier Radio Waveform (SRW) and Multi-user Objective System (MUOS) waveform — in addition to 14 different older waveforms, DARPA builds Cyber Range to test security measures -- Government Computer News The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and industry are developing a National Cyber Range to test network attack-and-defend strategies, much the same way that the United States created a range at Bikini Atoll in the 1940s and 1950s to test atomic weapons. Interview with Gen. James Mattis, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command -- Defense News Widely regarded as a man who blends a warrior ethos with a historically grounded intellect, U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Jim Mattis is noted for plain speaking about the brutal realities of war fighting. |
command comments ... " ... We expect the
defense base budget to continue to grow in real
terms, but not at the double-digit levels of the
immediate post-9/11 years. During those years,
money was available when programs ran into an
execution problem. Money was available when
tough decisions needed to be made between the
military utility of an additional increment of
capability and the cost that increment would add
to a program. Money was available for exquisite
capabilities lacking, to use Secretary Gates’s
words, “the maximum flexibility to deal with the
widest range of scenarios and adversaries.”
Money was available when difficult business
decisions were needed. The result is that we all
fell into some bad habits – government and
industry – and we now must re-learn the
discipline of affordability. Now we need to
deliver the needed program— for the same amount
of money or less. ..."
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