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  • Partners in Space, Partners in Signature: An AEHF Tradition

    The Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Program marked a significant occasion, June 22 when members of the leadership team at the Space and Missile Systems Center, the Aerospace Corporation and Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company all gathered to place their signatures on a thermal space

  • Changing of the Guard: Igl Takes Command of 61st Air Base Group

    A standing room only crowd in the Gordon Conference Center witnessed a change of command ceremony July 11 as Col. Charles P. Roberts relinquished leadership of the 61st Air Base Group to Col. Ann M. Igl. The ceremonial passing of the 61st ABG’s guidon was presided over by Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson,

  • Remodeled Los Angeles AFB Commissary celebrates grand re-opening

    Los Angeles Air Force Base celebrated the reopening of the commissary after completing a renovation project on July 3.The upgrade, which came just in time for the Independence Day weekend, included a new interior design featuring wider aisles, and a dedicated sushi counter. The change also includes

  • Six new inductees revealed at Schriever Wall of Honor ceremony

    Six early Air Force and civilian space pioneers were honored during a ceremony held June 14 to unveil their names, newly inscribed on a wall of polished black granite at the General Bernard A. Schriever Memorial, located on the grounds of the Schriever Space Complex at Los Angeles Air Force

  • Air Force Awards AFSPC-52 Launch Services Contract to SpaceX

    The Air Force has announced the award of an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) launch service contract.  Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been awarded a $130 million firm-fixed price contract for launch services to deliver Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite to

  • AFSPC-11 Launch a Team Effort by SMC, Its Mission Partners

    The recent successful launch of the AFSPC-11 mission from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, was a team effort directly involving personnel from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Systems Enterprise (LE), Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM), and Advanced Systems and

  • Mediate named Product Support Manager of the Year

    Bruno Mediate is not your typical product support manager. In fact, nothing he does is average, which is how he captured the 2017 Secretary of Defense Product Support Manager Award for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (Category I).His dedication and program acumen are responsible for keeping the

  • Los Angeles AFB Medical Clinic Earns Gold Seal of Approval

    The Joint Commission, an independent, non-profit organization that is the nation’s predominant standard-setting and accrediting body in health care, has awarded full accreditation status to the 61st Medical Squadron’s main clinic in El Segundo, and satellite clinic at Fort MacArthur in San Pedro for

  • Thin Blue Line remembers, honors fallen officers at Los Angeles AFB

    With black bands over their badges and red roses in their hands, law enforcement officers from the California Highway Patrol, Los Angeles County Sheriffs, Port of Los Angeles, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and various South Bay police departments joined the 61st

 

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