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GULF COAST Chapter Luncheon - 10/19/2011
Join us for lunch on Wednesday 19 Oct 2011 at the Bay Breeze Event Center Ballroom on Keesler AFB for a luncheon featuring guest speaker Maj Gen Ronnie Hawkins. More details in the link below!
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GULF COAST - 09/07/2011
From left, Lt. Cols. Trevor Wall, vice president, and Douglas Short, president of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Gulf Coast Chapter, accept the AFCEA Model Chapter Award fromTom Gwaltney, the organization's regional vice president, Sept. 7 at the Bay Breeze Event Center. Wall commands the 338th Training Squadron and Short commands the 333rd TRS. The award was announced in May at the Joint Warfighting Conference in Virginia Beach, Va. The award recognizes the top overall chapter structure and program of activities for the year. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kemberly Groue)
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GULF COAST - 05/14/2009
In May, Shane Loper, chief information officer, and Ron Millet, information technology director, both from the Hancock Bank Technology Center, gave the chapter a tour of the facility, including the network operations center, the server room and the supporting and backup systems. The center, nicknamed the "fortress" by local residents, was built after Hurricane Katrina and is designed to withstand winds exceeding 200 miles per hour. The facility is an example of the communications installation and infrastructure best practices learned from post-Katrina disaster preparedness.
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GULF COAST - 07/29/2009
The chapter hosted a seminar on the Scope Eagle in July. The guest speaker was Brig. Gen. Steven Spano, USAF, director of communications for Headquarters Air Combat Command (ACC), Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. The Scope Eagle is the Air Force's capstone professional development course in the communications and information career field. The general discussed the future of knowledge management in the ACC and the Air Force overall. More than 60 communications professionals attended the event.
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GULF COAST - 05/01/2009
In May, the chapter awarded more than $1,000 in scholarships to two outstanding high school students. Seniors Tanner Reid, Vancleave High School, and Gabrielle Davis, St. Martin High School, received the scholarships for their interpretations on how information technology is changing social culture. Both students intend to pursue engineering degrees.
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GULF COAST - 04/22/2009
The chapter invited Maj. Gen. John Maluda, USAF, director, cyberspace transformation and strategy, Office of Warfighting Integration, Secretary of the Air Force, and chief information officer, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., to speak at the April meeting. Maj. Gen. Paul Cappaso, USAF, director, command, control, communications and computer systems, U.S. Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany, also spoke during the meeting. More than 80 communications and electronics professionals from industry, government and the military attended the meeting, during which Gen. Maluda explained how the Office of Warfighting Integration supports the Air Force's leadership priorities by focusing on a strong, centralized approach to network management. The agency also has increased the emphasis placed on collaborating with joint partners, including the establishment of an interface with Air Force Space Command to support the standup of the 24th Air Force. The general concluded his remarks by sharing current events and trends in the Air Force's communications career fields.
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GULF COAST - 03/11/2009
In March, Col. Bahaael din Khaled, EAF, Information Systems Branch Headquarters, served as the meeting's distinguished guest speaker. The branch headquarters is responsible for the Egyptian air force's network application, security and operations as well as base-level information systems squadrons. The colonel provided an overview of the service branch's history and its internal communications division. He then compared communications courses offered within the Egyptian air force with similar courses offered at Keesler Air Force Base. More than 110 communications and electronics professionals, including members of the communications officer courses and the Communication Leadership Scope Eagle Conference, attended the meeting.
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GULF COAST - 01/28/2009
In January, the chapter kicked off its first meeting of the year by inviting Maj. Gen. Paul F. Capasso, USAF, director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (C4), U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), Stuttgart, Germany, to serve as the featured speaker. The general provided an overview of the geographic command's mission, approach and history as the command moves from establishment and activation to full operational capacity. He emphasized the programs and initiatives AFRICOM has instituted to face the interagency and intergovernmental C4 challenges on the continent. More than 70 communications and electronics professionals, including members of the Advanced Communications Officer Course and the Communication Leadership Scope Eagle Conference, attended the meeting.
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