The Joint Space Operations Center here received the Omaha Trophy in the Global Operations category for 2008 at a ceremony here Aug. 26.
Gen. Kevin Chilton, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, and Gary Gates, a member of the Strategic Command Consultation Committee, presented the award to Col. Richard Boltz, the 614th Air and Space Operations Center commander and director of the JSpOC.
This is the third year in a row the JSpOC was selected as a Trophy recipient. The center’s display of intellectual and operation flexibility, along with boundless dedication and brilliant technical imagination in their response to almost inconceivable challenges, is what led to their win, according to the award citation. One of those challenges included their role in Operation Burnt Frost, in which a non-functioning National Reconnaissance Office satellite was successfully intercepted.
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