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GENERAL BERNARD A. SCHRIEVER

AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION

LOS ANGELES CHAPTER 147

From the President…. Dear Members of the AFA General Bernard A. Schriever Los Angeles Chapter:

The missions of your Air Force Association are to Educate the public on the importance

of Aerospace Power; to Advocate Aerospace Power to the public and to our elected repre-sentatives; and to Support the Air Force and the Air Force family. The Schriever Chapter tends to emphasize the Support mission, through varied forms of philanthropy (AFROTC grants, Enlisted and Company Grade Officer scholarships, donations to the Los Angeles Air Force Spouses’ Club, donations to local high schools competing in AFA’s CyberPatriot initia-tive, and many others), and by annually recognizing the outstanding achievements of the men and women of the Space & Missile Systems Center. This quarter the chapter was very active in both the education and the recognition as-

pects of the Support mission, as detailed in several articles below. We honored AFROTC ca-dets at UCLA and Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) graduates at SMC. We pre-sented the Schriever Award to Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley, and a Schriever Fellowship Award to SMC Vice Commander Brig Gen Roger W. Teague, as part of the annual AFA Salute to SMC. In addition, the Chapter Board of Directors elected Marcia Peura to the Board as the new

Chapter Secretary, and she is doing a great job. Marcia takes over from Barby Kollenda, who retired from Lockheed Martin and from the Board last year, but volunteered to stay on until we could find a replacement – no small task, as Barby has flawlessly handled a number of disparate tasks for the chapter during her years of service. Many thanks to Barby, and a big ‘welcome aboard’ to Marcia! The last half of the year we will be attending the AFA National Conference in September –

and applauding SMC’s Protected Milsatcom Team as they receive the Schilling Award for the recovery of AEHF Flight 1. Watch the Chapter’s website http://www.afa147.org for news on and registration instructions for upcoming events: SMC Industry Days Oct 2-4 and AFA Sports Day Oct 2; an AFA Fall Mixer at LA AFB; and the AFA Executive Reception in con-junction with the Air Force Ball and Global Warfare Symposium Nov 15-16. These will all be excellent opportunities to network with AF and SMC senior management as well as your in-dustry colleagues. If you are interested in joining the Chapter Board of Directors or in supporting activities

of the Chapter’s Schriever Education Foundation, and/or our committees (membership, community relations, education, and many more) contact me or any Board member. We welcome all who want to ‘give back’ to the SMC community, the Air Force family, and the nation – there’s always a lot to do, and we’re all volunteers. Please call or write: we’ll find rewarding ways for you to help us educate, advocate, and support the Air Force.

Steve Quilici

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AFROTC Scholarships

On May 27th, Board Member Maj Gen (ret) Howard “Mitch” Mitchell attended the 2012 UCLA AFROTC Dining Out Ceremony, and presented $1000 scholarships to six outstanding cadets. This was as a part of the Schriever Chapter’s annual giving to

the three local ROTC units your Chapter supports: UCLA, USC, and Loyola Marymount Univer-sity. The UCLA AFROTC detachment includes cadets from a number of local colleges; this year’s awardees were:

Congratulations Cadets Snyder, Thiem, Gayson, Manuel, Kahan, and Do. The ageless guy in the middle is MG Mitchell.

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AFA, SMC Host Executive Forum and Salute to SMC

AFA’s General Bernard A Schriever Los Angeles Chapter sponsored, and the Air Force

Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Commander, Lt Gen Ellen Pawlikowski, co-

hosted, the 31st Annual SMC Executive Forum on June 8th, followed in the evening by the

38th annual Salute to SMC, recognizing our best and brightest.

The Executive Forum brings together SMC senior managers with aerospace industry execu-

tives to discuss topics of special interest to the SMC Commander. This year, government/

industry panels discussed (a) Orchestrating the Transition from RDT&E to Production while

Retaining RDT&E for Evolving Capabilities; (b) Tailoring Mission Assurance and Inde-

pendent Oversight for Lower Cost and Manageable Risk; and (c) Resilient and Cost-

Effective Future Architectures. Panel Moderators included Mr. R Scott Correll, Air Force

PEO for Space Launch; Mr. Doug Loverro, SMC Executive Director; and Brig Gen Kenneth

Moran, SMC Director of Program Management & Integration.

SMC Directorate Honored by AFA Chapter

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC)

Infrared Space Systems Directorate was honored as

SMC’s Unit of the Year by the AFA General Bernard A

Schriever Los Angeles Chapter at the 38th Annual AFA

Salute to SMC Banquet. The Directorate develops, de-

ploys, and sustains $27B in surveillance satellites and

ground stations to detect, track, and report global and

theater ballistic missile attacks against the United States,

its allies and combat forces. Supported systems include

the Defense Support Program (DSP) and Space-Based

Infrared Satellite (SBIRS) systems. Several members of

the Directorate were in attendance to help Col Planeaux

accept the award.

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Brigadier General Teague Honored

AFA’s General Bernard A Schriever Los Angeles Chapter

presented its Schriever Fellowship Award to Brig Gen Roger

W. Teague, SMC Vice Commander. The Los Angeles Chap-

ter collaborates on this award with AFA Headquarters, which

grants an academic scholarship to a deserving student in the

name of the Schriever Fellowship Award winner, extending

the education mission of AFA. Previous Schriever Fellowship

Award winners include Generals Lester Lyles, James Dalton,

and Bernard Randolph; Lt Generals Eugene Tattini, Roger

DeKok, Don Cromer, Brian Arnold, and Larry James; and Air

Force Deputy Undersecretaries Gary Payton and Richard

McKinney. Brig Gen Teague is pictured here with Chapter

president Steve Quilici and MG (ret) Tom Taverney, Chair-

man of the Board.

Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley Honored

The evening’s premier award, presented by AFA’s

Los Angeles Chapter to Secretary of the Air Force

(SecAF) Michael B. Donley, was the General Bernard

A. Schriever National Space Leadership Award, for

outstanding achievement in support of USAF space

and missile programs. Mr. Donley then gave a very

well received talk on the evolving future of space ac-

tivities. Past Schriever Awardees include SecAFs F.

Whitten Peters, Sheila E.

Widnall, Pete Aldridge,

and Hans Mark; USecAF/

DNRO Peter Teets; and Generals Robert Kehler, Kevin Chilton, Lance Lord,

Lester Lyles, Thomas Moorman, Charles Horner, Donald Kutyna, Robert Herres,

Samuel Phillips, and Lew Allen, Jr. The Chapter has been presenting the Schriever

Award since 1975.

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Lieutenant General John W. O'Neill Award for Outstanding

Program Director: MR. LOUIS M. JOHNSON, JR.,

SMC Director of Space Logistics

Lieutenant General Kenneth W. Schultz Award for Outstanding Pro-

gram Manager: LT COL DONALD R. FREW, Program Manager and

Material Leader for GPS III Satellite Development and Production

Lieutenant General Richard C. Henry Award for Outstanding Leader-

ship: CAPT PHILLIP M. DOBBERFUHL, SMC/LR

General Samuel C. Phillips Award for Outstanding young

Engineer/Scientist: CAPT KRISTEN A. CLARK, SMC/LR

Alfred Rockefeller, Jr., Award for Outstanding Civilian:

MS. ANN R. BIRBECK, SMC/PK

Lieutenant General Forrest S. McCartney Award for Outstanding Com-

pany Grade Officer Over 4 Years: CAPT BRIAN A. AN, SMC/SY

Lieutenant General Roger G. Dekok Award for Outstanding

Airman: SRA MADELINE J. McCLAIN, SMC/SL

Major General Thomas D. Taverney Award for Outstanding

Reservist: LT COL DAVID D. LESSICK, SMC/GP

General Bernard A. Schriever Chapter's Award of Excellence

for a Staff or Support Member:

CAPT JASON M. HOLMAN, SMC/PK

Chairman's Award for Outstanding Field Grade Officer of the

Year: LT COL DAVID M. LEARNED, SMC/GP

President's Award for Outstanding Non-Commissioned Officer:

SSGT DAVID L. DVORAK, SMC/PK

Outstanding Company Grade Officer Award Under 4 Years:

1LT SEAN R. FISHER, SMC/MC

Kathleen L. Landis Volunteer of the Year Award:

MRS. KATHLEEN J. "KATIE" HELWIG, Spouse of COL CHUCK

HELWIG, SMC/PI

General Schriever Chapter's Unit of the Year Award: SPACE

BASED INFRARED SYSTEMS DIRECTORATE, led by COL

JAMES PLANEAUX

YOUR 2012 AFA SMC SALUTE WINNERS

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AFA IN THE NEWS

Adapted from:

CyberPatriot World

Air Force Magazine, June 2012

By Peter Grier

Teams from the Colorado Springs Civil Air Patrol and Alamo Academies in San

Antonio took home top honors in this year’s high school cyber defense competi-

tion.

A record number of teams—more than a thousand—representing all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto

Rico, and Department of Defense Education Activity schools in Europe and the Pacific, entered the Air Force

Association’s CyberPatriot IV cyber defense competition for high school students. Canadian

students participated as well, with five squads from Manitoba competing as CyberPatriot’s first

international teams.

The Open Division is for nonaffiliated teams, while the All Service Division includes high

school teams with military ties, such as JROTC and CAP units. The two divisions compete in par-

allel competitions with their peer teams. In the Open Division, "Team Unknown," representing

Alamo Academies of San Antonio took home the President’s Trophy.

A team from Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Wash., finished second in the Open Divi-

sion, while Palos Verdes Peninsula High School from Rolling Hills Estates, Calif., took third.

CyberPatriot’s founders take care to emphasize that they are not developing a new generation of hackers. They

work to teach high school students how to deal with malware, viruses, system intruders, and other computer

system security problems. Nor do they focus only on defense needs. Banks, universities, manufacturing firms,

retail chains, even academia—in coming years all will likely see an increased need for cyber defense.

Backed by AFA, presenting sponsor Northrop Grumman Foundation, as well as SAIC, the Center for Infra-

structure Assurance and Security, and other sponsors, CyberPatriot is intended to get kids interested in cyber

defense, a 21st century field of great national need, as well as science, technology, engineering, and math.

CyberPatriot has established a Centers of Excellence program to recognize communities that embrace the

cyber competition concept. Officials have awarded two Centers of Excellence certificates so far: one to the Los Angeles Unified School District and another to the city of San Antonio.

The LA school system, in conjunction with local universities, has hosted a three-day cyber camp for teenagers

and established a drop-in summer program to get cyber defenders ready for next year’s CyberPatriot, among

other steps. In 2012, the district sent a team to the national finals for the second year in a row.

Both LAUSD and PV

High School were spon-

sored in part by your

Schriever Chapter

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Statuette Honors Honor Guard

Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz accepted a 30-inch replica of the 16-foot statue of the Air Force Honor

Guard that sits at the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va. Air Force Association leaders presented the statu-

ette to Schwartz during a ceremony at the Pentagon on April 13. It now sits on display in the Chief's office.

"This is about your legacy, those who came before, and, of course, the current members of the honor guard,"

said Schwartz in addressing current honor guard members present at the ceremony. AFA representatives said

they hoped that the statuette would remind visitors of the honor guard's contributions to the service and the

core values its members uphold.

Zenos Frudakis created the original statue at the memorial, which opened to the public in October 2006.

(Washington, D.C.by SSgt. Tiffany Trojca)

AFA's Wounded Airman Program Gets Support from Air Force

Cycling Classic

AFA's Wounded Airman Program was the designated principal beneficiary for

this year's Air Force Cycling Classic, which was held June 9-10, 2012, through-

out Arlington, VA. At a ceremony held Sunday, June 10, 2012, AFA received a

check for $25,000, raised through pledges made by those participating as part of

Team Sabre, Airmen Helping Airmen, to help support the program.