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  • LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- The Transformational Satellite Communications System Mission Operations System will provide network management for the TSAT system, providing network-centric interoperability between TSAT and the Department of Defense’s Global Information Grid. For the joint warfighter and deployed worldwide users, this means they are one step closer to obtaining network-centric warfare.

    Air Force Awards $2B contract for TSAT Mission Operations System

    The Air Force announced the award of the Transformational Satellite Communications System Mission Operations System contract to Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solutions of San Jose, Calif., recently. The $2 billion award will cover a period of 10 years and will include development and fielding of the initial TMOS capability. The TMOS will
  • MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. -- Senior Airman Matthew Rohler, 5th Communication Squadron, checks for a dial tone between the Remote Automated Weather Station and the 5th Operations Support Squadrons Weather Flight at Alpha 01. The RAWS is a new state-of-the-art weather system that detects real time visibility, temperature, humidity and many other weather factors.

    RAWS fully functional at Minot

    Minot recently completed maintenance on five Remote Automated Weather Stations located at different missile alert facilities throughout North Dakota. The maintenance, which began in fall 2005, was completed Feb. 17 and made the RAWS fully operational after a four-year hiatus. The RAWS have several sensors that collect weather information such as
  • LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles Air Force Base Honor Guard members (background) patiently wait for the camera to roll during taping of an episode of NBC’s “The West Wing” earlier this month. They participated in a scene involving the funeral of an Air Force veteran.

    Base Honor Guard goes Hollywood

    Seven of the base’s elite took part in the recent filming of a primetime network drama at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Air Force Base Honor Guard supported a request from NBC’s “The West Wing” for an Air Force presence in an episode featuring the funeral of the series’ White House chief of staff. “What a wonderful
  • PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. -- Lt. Gen. Frank Klotz, Col. Jay Santee, Col. John Hyten, and Col. Jimmy McMillian hose down General Lance W. Lord, Air Force Space Command commander, after his “Fini Flight” here Feb. 27. The Fini Flight is an Air Force tradition of dousing an Airman after his or her final flight with the unit. General Klotz is AFSPC vice commander, Colonel Santee is the 21st Space Wing commander, Colonel Hyten is the 50th Space Wing commander, and Colonel McMillian is the AFSPC commander’s executive officer.

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  • Colorado College students study Schriever’s falcons

    Although wildlife on and around the “little base on the prairie” seems scarce, if people were to roam the base’s acreage, they would see a landscape teeming with animal life. Black-tailed prairie dogs peek out of their burrows; desert cottontails race across parking lots; and raptors nest in trees. While a visit to Schriever Feb. 8 from a Colorado

  • 1st SOPS Airmen help students reach for the stars

    Cardboard rockets took to the sky on plumes of white smoke, some flying more than 200 feet into the air, as approximately 125 students from Woodmen Hills Elementary School watched. The launches Feb. 21 capped a four-week course in rocket building at Woodmen Hills, which volunteers from the 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base,
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The new Space Force Good Conduct Medal will be awarded to #Guardians for every three years of good conduct demonstrating the Space Force core values of Character, Connection, Commitment, & Courage. More here👇 https://t.co/F676bbDfRd
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The new Space Force Good Conduct Medal will be awarded to #Guardians for every three years of good conduct demonstrating the Space Force core values of Character, Connection, Commitment, & Courage. More here👇 https://t.co/F676bbDfRd
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The new Space Force Good Conduct Medal will be awarded to #Guardians for every three years of good conduct demonstrating the Space Force core values of Character, Connection, Commitment, & Courage. More here👇 https://t.co/F676bbDfRd
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