When Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., officials needed to establish a more robust communications infrastructure in support of its new tenant unit’s Global Hawk mission, they knew just who to call.
“Pat Katzer is the best network engineer in the business … we needed the best,” said Col. Tammy Knierim, 319th Air Refueling Wing mission support group commander, who requested AFNIC’s support.
Ms. Katzer, a network systems engineer at the Air Force Network Integration Center, specializes in command and control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance telecommunications engineering – a specialty not widely available throughout the Air Force or at all at Grand Forks. AFNIC – an Air Force Space Command direct reporting unit responsible for shaping, provisioning, integrating and sustaining the enterprise network – frequently receives requests for specialized engineering and analysis, one of the center’s core capabilities.
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