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  • Airmen Run 24 Hours in Remembrance of POW/MIA Day

    Airmen, their families, friends and volunteers from Los Angeles Air Force Base along with members from other military branches participated in a remembrance ceremony and a 24-hour torch relay run in honor of those who were held captive or are still missing and unaccounted for during times of armed

  • SMC Contestants “Go for Green” During 3rd Annual Salad Challenge

    The Health Promotion Office is rolling out the ‘Go for Green” program to show military members how to optimize their health and fitness by following guidelines for selecting healthy foods. The Go for Green program shows what a good food selection is and what things to stay away from. The color-coded

  • SMC partners with Dell, HP to enhance secure IT infrastructure

    The Space and Missile Systems Center is partnering with leaders in the information technology industry to expedite the creation of prototypes of supply chain risk management infrastructure platforms.The SMC Range and Network Directorate, Cyber Security Division entered into two cooperative research

  • SMC Officer Wins Top Air Force Acquisition Award

    A Space and Missile Systems Center lieutenant colonel is recognized as the top acquisition manager in the Air Force. Lt. Col. Jason Davis, deputy director of the SMC Launch Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Mission Procurement Division was awarded the Outstanding Air

  • AEHF-4 Encapsulated Ahead of October Launch

    The U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-4) communication satellite completed encapsulation on Oct. 4 at Astrotech Space Operations processing facility in Florida.  The encapsulation of AEHF-4 in the United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle payload fairing marks an

  • SBIRS GEO-3 Successfully Achieves Operational Acceptance

    The Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (GEO)-3 successfully achieved Air Force Space Command operational acceptance.  The satellite is healthy and sending data to the Mission Control Station, operated by the 460th Space Wing located at Buckley Air Force Base,

  • SBIRS Wide Field of View Acoustic Testing: The Sound of Innovation

    The Space and Missile Systems Center Remote Sensing Systems Directorate (SMC/RS) and its L3 Technologies and Millennium Space Systems industry partners successfully completed Acoustic Testing on the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Wide Field of View (WFOV) program optical payload on Aug. 23.

  • Deputy Secretary of Defense visits Los Angeles Air Force Base

    Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan visited Los Angeles Air Force Base and toured the Space and Missile Systems Center Aug. 27. As a part of his visit, Mr. Shanahan held a town hall for SMC members in order to address some of their questions about upcoming changes within the Department of

  • Inaugural Open House for SMC, 61st ABG personnel and families a success

    The courtyard and surrounding common areas of the Schriever Space Complex took on a festive atmosphere July 24 as the Space and Missile Systems Center and 61st Air Base Group hosted their first open house at Los Angeles Air Force Base.For four hours, the Schriever Courtyard was a no hat, no salute,