2008 Bedford Chamber Speakers Series Kicks Off in April

The first of the Chambers’ new quarterly breakfast series is scheduled to begin on April 30, 8:30 am at the Bedford Glen Doubletree Hotel.  The series will showcase area business people and government leaders and be a great opportunity to hear from the top what is going on in the community and network over breakfast with other chamber members. 

Lt General Ted F Bowlds will present an overview of the Electronic System Center addressing Where Hanscom is today; and what lies ahead for the Electronic Systems Center. The Center's mission is to acquire command and control systems for the Air Force. The organization comprises more than 12,000 people located at six sites throughout the United States. The men and women of the ESC manage more than $3 billion in programs annually in support of the Air Force, and joint and coalition forces.

The newest commander to Hanscom entered the Air Force in 1975 through the ROTC program. In earlier assignments, he served as an engineer in an Air Force laboratory and as a flight test engineer on the F-117. He has worked as avionics program manager on the B-2, bomber branch chief at the Pentagon, Chief of Advance Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile development in the AMRAAM System Program Office, and as Commander of the Rome Laboratory in Rome, N.Y.

General Bowlds also served as the Deputy Director of Global Power Programs with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. Prior to assuming his current position, he was assigned as Commander, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He was responsible for managing the Air Force's $2 billion science and technology program as well as additional customer funded research and development of $1.7 billion.