Colonel Andrew Menschner
Sep 22, 2026

Please join us at our Scholarship luncheon.  Colonel Menschner will provide some remarks and hand out STEM-related scholarships to ROTC cadets/midshipmen and LA AFB personnel.  While we celebrate their dedication and drive, we also THANK YOU for your generosity throughout the year making these AFCEA scholarships possible!

This is an in-person event in the Gordon Conference Center (GCC), which is across the entryway from The South Bay Grill.  Enter the same entrance of the same building on base, enter the door to your right, check in and proceed to your assigned table in GCC-2!  The event starts promptly at 11:30am on 22 September with the arrival of the official party and welcoming remarks.  After lunch, LtGen Garrant will provide remarks and present the scholarships.  We’ll conclude around 1:00pm.

Cost is:  $35 for members and $45 for non-members

Register by 14 September!

While we will do everything we can to get you access to base if you provide the requested information by 14 September, things happen.  *If you do not have base access, be sure to bring your Real ID or passport with you and arrive a little early in case you need to go through the Visitor Control Center.*

If you have any questions, please contact Mike Gabor, AFCEA LA Chapter Vice President of Programs at mgabor@turionspace.com and Todd Wiest, AFCEA LA Chapter President at todd.wiest@kratosdefense.com.

Colonel Andrew S. Menschner is the Deputy Commander, Space Systems Command, headquartered at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California. He leads more than 15,000 military, civilian and contractor personnel worldwide and an annual budget of $15.6 billion, while managing the research, design, development, acquisition, launch, and sustainment of satellites and the associated command and control systems. Space Systems Command’s extensive portfolio includes military satellite communication, missile warning, navigation and timing, space-based weather, space launch and test ranges, space superiority, responsive space and other emerging evolutionary space programs.

Corporate sponsorships for this event are currently available.  If you are sponsoring *and* attending, please ensure you register and include whether you need or have base access.  We also ask that sponsors have *all attendees registered* (up to 4) by 14 September.