COLORADO SPRINGS MILITARY NEWSPAPER GROUP Thursday, March 5, 2015 www.csmng.com Vol. 9 No. 9 Commander gives first State of the Base address Did you know? Did you know the Daylight Savings Time begins 2 a.m. Sunday? Set your clocks forward one hour in the spring at the start of DST. Base Briefs CMSAF Cody visits Schriever, holds all-call Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody will hold an all-call Friday at the Schriever Fitness Center. Attendees must be in place no later than 12:30 p.m. All personnel are invited. To watch the event through DCO, visit https://connectcol.dco.dod. mil/r4vhecvo9mo/. U.S. Air Force photo/Christopher DeWitt Col. Bill Liquori, 50th Space Wing commander, gives Schriever Air Force Base’s first State of the Base address Feb. 25, 2015, at the Schriever Fitness Center. More than OV 15-1 postponed 35 civic leaders, Air Force retirees and representatives from Colorado Springs, Colo. were in attendance. The 50th Space Wing leadership has directed postponement of OV By Brian Hagberg they impact both Schriever and the Colorado personnel makeup, basic operational com- 15-1 exercise schedule March 16-20. 50th Space Wing Public Affairs Springs community. mand of satellites and the wing’s mission For questions or concerns, contact More than 35 civic leaders, retired Air Liquori highlighted Airmen from multiple and vision statements. He had high praise 50th Space Wing Inspector General Force members and representatives from units to explain how the wing operates on when discussing the vision statement, which at 567-7945/2170. Colorado Springs, Colorado, attended a day-to-day basis, as well as the numerous he summarized as simply saying the 50 SW AFA holds Air Force Ball Schriever Air Force Base’s first State of the achievements the base and its personnel wants to be the best at what they do. Base address here Feb. 25. earned in 2014. “I humbly and firmly believe that we are The 2015 Air Force Ball is March Col. Bill Liquori, 50th Space Wing com- “I was blessed when they said, ‘Here’s where (the best),” he said. “I don’t think there’s a 20 in the Broadmoor Hall at the mander; Col. Damon Feltman, 310th Space you’re going to work’,” Liquori said. “The better satellite operations unit out there. The Broadmoor. The event is hosted by Wing commander; Lt. Col. Danny Nguyen, team of folks that is here every day is just team that we have doing this business is sec- the Air Force Association Lance P. United States Air Force Warfare Center rep- doing amazing things and it’s just wonderful ond to none.” Sijan Chapter No. 125. Cocktail hour resentative; and Col. Kel Robinson, assistant to be here and be a part of it.” He focused on the benefits provided around begins at 6 p.m. and the dinner is at 7 to the Director Missile Defense Agency, de- Liquori began the presentation with an See Commander page 5 p.m. For more information or to buy tailed what each of their units does and how explanation of the 50 SW, its group and tickets, contact Master Sgt. Jesse Cook or Master Sgt. Greg Artis. More Briefs page 6 The UEI is over, what now? Sign up for weekly Schriever announcements, news and more. Visit www.schriever.af.mil and click By Senior Airman be utilized regularly. It is moni- “Public Affairs” under featured links. Naomi Griego tored by the IG and goes up all 50th Space Wing Public Affairs the way up to Headquarters Air “Schriever should be proud Force. Public Affairs of itself. That was absolutely “We always have to be ready,” demonstrated with our Unit Fischer said. Effectiveness Inspection grade, Apart from detecting deficien- with that being said, we just cies, the base should also be find- Inside started.” ing solutions, he emphasized. ‘Excellent’ CCRI rating earned .... 2 These words were asserted “We don’t know what we don’t Prepare for change ........................ 3 by Maj. Nicholas Sanders, 50th know at our level, we know what’s Tax season is here ......................... 7 Space Wing Inspector General, not being done” he said. “It is up in regards to the second phase to the unit to peel back the layers of the Commander’s Inspection “The whole basis of the Air meet all Air Force Instruction and figure out why.” Program. The focus now for the Force Inspection System is a requirements,” said Sanders. Fischer said in order to correct wing is self-assessment. continuous process. Just be- “They vary anywhere from ap- an action we have to know what “You can’t fix what you don’t cause we got through the UEI pointment letters to training the root cause is. know is broken,” said Sanders. doesn’t mean that we’re done requirements.” “We should be asking why,” Last October, the Air Force and we can rest until the next The focus needs to be on the he said. Space Command Inspector UEI in 2016,” according to Lou units and every individual con- The 50th Space Wing Inspector General Team evaluated the men Fischer, 50th Space Wing direc- tinually self-assessing, ensuring General Team wants Team and women of the 50th Space tor of inspections. compliance or identifying areas Schriever to evaluate if they are Wing on four major graded areas Although this was a huge mile- where they are not compliant, doing the due diligence of ensur- and the wing earned an overall stone for the base in response to Fischer said. ing leadership is aware of defi- score of “Effective.” This inspec- the new AFIS, there is still work One avenue for self-assessment ciencies and what’s causing them. tion marked the first of its kind. to be done and everyone down to is known to many as MICT, “We want this to be the The new system is designed to the most junior Airman needs to a.k.a the Management Internal thought process of everyone,” evaluate adequacy, accuracy, and be involved, said Sanders. Control Toolset. The web-based said Sanders. “We want people relevance of the CCIP, which dif- “Just to give you scope, the program, although not the only to find what’s broken and elevate fered from being focused purely wing has more than 65,000 re- means for tracking, provides it to the appropriate level so it can on compliance every two years. quirements it has to maintain to checklists for units, which should be fixed,” said Sanders. 2 March 5, 2015 Schriever Sentinel Schriever earns ‘Excellent’ CCRI rating By Senior Airman Naomi Griego Master Sgt. Danielle Gangadeen, 50th Space protect the network. 50th Space Wing public Affairs Communications Squadron, quality assurance superin- “With technology it’s constant, and it can be difficult Team Schriever received an “Excellent” rating during tendent, enforces the commander’s self-inspection program at times but it’s essential,” she added. “If there’s a vulner- its Command Cyber Readiness Inspection Feb. 9-14 at as well as policies and guidelines set forth by the Air Force. ability that affects our most important mission systems and Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. She oversaw the preparation for the inspection. satellites, we protect them. We take our Air Force network “We’ve been preparing since the last inspection, which The results of the inspection showed excellence in the seriously.” base’s internal network, Information Assurance pro- was a year ago,” she said. Walker said Team Schriever scored a rating of 84 on grams, traditional security, vulnerability management, Gangadeen, Tech. Sgt. Micaela Walker, 50 SCS NCO in Non-classified Internet Protocol Network, Secret Internet charge of network operations, Tech. Sgt. Kendra Bryan, NIPR and 88 on SIPR, which were both excellent. The 50 Protocol Network and Voice over Internet protocol. NCO in charge of vulnerability management cell, and the SCS showed a commitment to continuous improvement by “This would not have been possible without total support men and women of the 50 SCS all played a crucial part using the last inspection’s lessons learned to better prepare across the base, whether providing augmentee manpower toward the success of the CCRI. for this one. to 50 SCS or cooperating on the various SIPR up days and “My role was server patching and Security Technical “The teamwork between all the work centers this year reboot requests,” said Col. Bill Liquori, 50th Space Wing Implementation Guides for web and database servers,” was great. The communication was open and we worked commander. “Thank you for your patience and individual said Bryan. very efficiently,” said Walker. actions that we requested in the months/weeks leading up This means applying patches for vulnerabilities to the The DISA team assessed Schriever’s network and tradi- to the inspection. As with any inspection, the trick will be servers and STIGs are checked from DISA to ensure con- tional security as a whole. figurations are correct on each server, Bryan said. to sustain these good network security practices.” “They were very impressed with our traditional security,” As part of the CCRI, the 50th Space Communications She also scans the NIPR and SIPR network for vulner- said Gangadeen. Squadron hosted six Defense Information Systems Agency abilities, which could potentially affect work stations and inspectors who conducted the inspection to evaluate the servers, printers and routers. According to Gangadeen, one of the inspectors said base’s cybersecurity programs. “A vulnerability is a finding, a deficiency in your system Schriever was one of the best sites he has seen. The goal of the inspection is to ensure compliance with — something a hacker or adversary could potentially use “I was extremely happy with the results and all the hard the standards and regulations laid out for appropriate and to access or attack our network or system,” Bryan said.