EMCOMMWEST 2010 Forum, Saturday Morning, 9:00 a.m. - Promenade Room

Lt Col Corey Keppler, USAF

Lieutanant Colonel Corey Keppler is Commander of the 7th Space Warning Squadron at Beale Air Force Base, California. Colonel Keppler will host a two-hour forum and Q&A session on Pave PAWS at 9:00 a.m. Saturday morning. The discussion will center around the Pave PAWS 70cm band restrictions surrounding Beale AFB in Northern California.  The presentation will be made by Colonel Keppler and his staff who work directly with the project at Beale. They will present an overview of the unit mission, explain the project, their use of the 420-450 MHz band and why the mitigation of interference is important to their mission.  Their presentation will be followed by a full hour of Q&A to answer questions from the amateur radio community.

Pave PAWS for Peace

The heart of the nation's missile warning capabilities, the Pave Phased Array Warning System, or Pave PAWS, has been monitoring the skies surrounding North America since the early 1980s. The system's main purpose is to detect and track both intercontinental and sea-launched ballistic missiles. It's a job it does well.

"If something's out there, we'll see it," said Colonel Keppler in a 2009 interview. "And that's really what our job is, to detect launches, track them and provide data to the right agencies."

Beale Air Force Base is one of five Pave PAWS sites that are scattered around the globe. For more information on Pave PAWS, you can view the Pave PAWS Fact Sheet.

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