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Show HilStop August 3, 2000 Enlisted forum o Photo by Senior Airman Russ Martin Carol DiBattiste, undersecretary of the Air Force, listens to comments during an enlisted forum Tuesday at the Airman Leadership Air School. The Forces second highest-r- civilian offiDiBattiste cial, spoke at Air National Guard the and Retention Recruiting Conference in Salt Lake City before visiting with the Ogden ALC command section and recruiters on base. An interview with the undersecretary will be published in next weeks Hilltop Times. anking System, from page Lyles, from page 1. war in Kosovo. We could do more, there are more gress, looks at where the Air Force is in integrating opportunities, but he is probably our greatest tesaerospace and where it is going in terms of space timonial that we are using space today to prosecute capabilities. everything we do in the U.S. Air Force. The Space Commission is one were very concerned Lyles said hes happy to see the Space and C3I about because we want Systems Directorate come to understand were to Hill. people Theres a growth indusgood stewards for space, and that weve done a very try in command, control, of good job integrating air communications, inforalways a tremendous pleasure and space today and that mation technology and were looking for more to get back here to Hill AFB and space and how we blend opportunities in the future. those capabilities the Ogden ALC. As with other programs, obviouly together, he said. Theres a wealth of talent in this funding will be an imporbiased , having been one of the tant factor as the program place, both in terms of aevelops, the general said. commanders here , but my wife and software capabilities, in Were hoping that one of terms of maintenance tell everybody wherever we go the benefits of this comcapabilities that I think mission will be additional are going to be set in the this is the greatest that so can we more money put right position to help resources into the varienvironment ensure that we grow space community ous areas like people, capabilities and C3I capaweve that families support and science bilities for the U.S. Air Force. technology. ever been in. believe in this To underscore the impor-tanc- e Space will continue to believe in the of integrated air facility. people play a larger role. There and space power, Lyles are some people, parto see 1. this database, said London. This is a database that is updated all the time. It contains history, manufactures, part numbers, procurement history, technical information and anything you want to know about it. Like Form Flow, IHS can be loaded on to a computer and an icon on the desktop. When activated, IHS con- -' c link to the host link in Dennects from the Hill ver where the information is stored. People can get this from their desk, said London. Just click on an icon on your desktop. Your software manager loads a little executable program that goes directly into the network feeding into Bldg. 849, and theyre ready to look at the Haystack library. With constantly evolving technology becoming bigger and less complex to the everyday Joe, its how things were done before innovations such as these were invented. What we used to do is get stacks of manuals that someone would have to thumb through and then that manual would reference another manual and it would take hours to find any information at all about a part. Now, we have all that information online complete with parts information and a retrieval system, according to London. There are a lot of people on base who are unaware of it. We have a lot of users out there, but I dont think enough people know about it, which is amazing considering how easy it is. The system is not for everybody, at least not yet, accordfiber-opti- mind-bogglin- Im g . I and quoted Gen. John P. Jumper, commander of Air Combat Command, and former commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Allied Air Forces Central Europe. When he was running the campaign for the air war over Serbia, he said there wasnt a single part Im just proud weather outlook 989 High 71 9 Low Partly Cloudy Partly cloudy with chance of afternoon . jiuj j Commission, that would like to see us do war from space space weapons and are pointing us in Gen. Lester Lyles were some ways off from actually doing that and I hope the fact that we are and not putting money into that is not going to be viewed as being negative. In every other aspect of space, were using it every day. But some people are not going to be satisfied with that. They want us to have weapons in space tomorrow and I just dont think were there yet. mra.airfield-ops.hill.af.mllos1717eath- er 97s High 71s Low Partly Cloudy 97s High 70s Low 96s High 709 Low Partly Cloudy ; imp., ijjy ju the future. ticularly those that are very close to the Space that direction. I think thunderstorms i everything theyve done. I know theyre going to continue doing great things in integration of space capabilities and air capability, Lyles recalled. He is very critical and gets somewhat upset when he hears people say that were not taking advantage of space. He did it every day in integrating the warfighting needs to prosecute the 992 High 709 Low It I and of their mission they could have done without a full and energy from running around trying to find a small bit of information. f I I they dont have to go to the next building or call up another base. Thats purely saving manpower time 5-d-ay for facil-itie- s, ing to London. The guy in the hangar. The guy whos an item manager. The guy who fixes things and needs spares. The guy who needs a little more information on a part that hes trying to buy or some technical index. Those are the people who can receive the most benefit from Haystack and Specs & Standards at this time, said London. Were planning on having safety standards listed on the Specs & Standards sites by the beginning of the New Year, said London. IHS is consistently updating the information in its data bases and before long there should be information on the site for everyone on the base. 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