Transforming Space Conference Launched

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As the morning keynote speaker, Space and Missile Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Michael Hamel explained the center's 50-year legacy of mission success and innovative development of critical U.S. space assets to several hundred conference attendees.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2005
Jointly sponsored by the California Space Authority and the California Space Education and Workforce Institute, the "Transforming Space: California Innovation, Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital" conference highlighted the state's tremendous accomplishments in the three sectors of space - national security, civil and commercial and space-related education.

National security space issues were represented by the state's seven military bases with significant space assets, including the Space and Missile Center at Los Angeles Air Force Base, the 30th Space Wing at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake.

Space and Missile Systems Center was at the forefront in helping to launch the inaugural transforming space conference held Dec. 1-2 in Los Angeles.

The Space and Missile Center procures all of the Air Force's space hardware and services through contracts worth $9 billion each year and employs more than 36,000 military personnel and civil servants as well as more than 2,100 contractors.

He stressed the unique and continual bond, vision, culture and partnership of government and industry working together to forge and transform our country's role in space in the 21st century.

Five Space and Missile Systems Center program directors participated in the panel, entitled "Space and Missile Systems Center: Tranformation Epicenter," that immediately followed.

Moderated by retired Lt. Gen. Eugene Tattini, the former center commander and now Jet Propulsion Laboratory deputy director, the panelists included Brig. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, Military Satellite Communications Joint Program Office program director; Col. Edward Bolton, Satellite and Launch Control Systems Office materiel wing director; Col. Allen Ballenger, Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office program director; Col. James Painter, Development and Transformation director; and Col. James Haywood, Space Superiority materiel wing director.

Each director provided an update and status on the key programs in each of their respective areas and fielded questions at the end of the panel presentations.

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Paris, France (SPX) Dec 19, 2005
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