Share This: NEXT STORY: DOD Expands Data Repository for Business Information Across the Enterprise KREL is the latest step. Coworkers: jobs listed on this site are typically for hiring new government employees. KR builds, tests, delivers, operates, and maintains cloud-based infrastructure and warfighting software applications for use by Airmen worldwide. Kessel Run operates both out of Boston and nearby Hanscom Air Force Base. Three Hanscom AFB contracting and program specialists worked a series of Other Transaction Authorities, sole source contracts and small business contracts to get Project Kessel Run off the ground. Kessel Run’s (KR) mission is to deliver combat capabilities warfighters love and revolutionize the Air Force software acquisition process. Three Hanscom AFB contracting and program specialists worked a series of Other Transaction Authorities, sole source contracts and small business contracts to get Project Kessel Run off the ground. Kessel Run Deploys KRADOS to Air Operation Center. Kessel Run is Detachment 12 of Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, based out of Boston, MA, with operating locations at Hanscom AFB and Langley AFB. This is an important milestone in the journey to modernize the AOC and eventually realize the vision of the Block 20, distributed AOC weapon system, allowing the service to later deprecate the existing 10.1 Falconer Weapon System. "It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. Who will I be working with? So for the Air Force, Kessel Run meant speed, which is what the Air Force was trying to do with agile. – The personnel from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Detachment 12, Kessel Run, take innovative approaches to their work.That carried over to the organization’s change of command April 15 when the ceremony took place via Zoom due to COVID-19 concerns. – The personnel from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Detachment 12, Kessel Run, take innovative approaches to their work.That carried over to the organization’s change of command April 15 when the ceremony took place via Zoom due to COVID-19 concerns. Three Hanscom AFB contracting and program specialists worked a series of Other Transaction Authorities, sole source contracts and small business contracts to get Project Kessel Run off the ground. HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Dr. Will Roper, right, looks on with Steven Wert, Battle Management program executive officer, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., during a presentation at Project Kessel Run in the WeWork shared space in Boston July 30. KREL is the latest step. The Kessel Run Experimentation Lab, run out of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Battle Management Directorate at Hanscom Air Force Base, moved into its new home here Jan. 2 after outgrowing its old space, also in downtown Boston. Kessel Run 2 years 7 months Legacy Transition Planning Lead Kessel Run Dec 2020 - Present 3 months. KREL is the latest step.