AFMC Command News

  • Winter Weather: Ice-Related Hazards

    Cold weather can be dangerous, or even deadly. The best time to prepare for severe winter weather is now, before temperatures drop significantly and staying safe and warm becomes a challenge.

  • Retired F-15 aircraft play role in Air Force readiness

    Each year many F-15 aircraft come to Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, to go through a Planned/Scheduled Depot Level Maintenance process to receive upgrades and repairs to sustain them for the rigors of flight. But what if the aircraft can no longer be repaired?

  • ATAC Team provides cyber security recommendations

    Members of the Advanced Tactical Acquisition Corps (ATAC) Team 13 recently provided recommendations to senior U.S. Air Force leaders, outlining actions the service should consider as it works to improve cyber resiliency of aircraft in the fleet.

  • Public-private partnerships key element to future success

    Highly efficient public-private partnerships will be a key ingredient in providing successful sustainment outcomes and deterring adversaries in the future, according to Lt. Gen. Stacey Hawkins, commander of Air Force Sustainment Center. His remarks during the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber State of

  • DAF sports build more capable Airmen, Guardians 

    The Air Force Services Center has opportunities for Airmen and Guardians who want to face the best athletic competition in the U.S. Armed Forces, make connections, build resiliency and serve as an example for others.  

  • Eglin HEXA milestone featured in Around the Air Force

    In this week’s look around the Air Force, new B-21 Raider long-range bomber rolls out for public view, Airmen fly the HEXA, an electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, and the Air Force Research Lab is creating a domestic supply of rubber for aircraft tires using dandelions.

  • Winter Risk Management; my story

    Many tasks do not require deliberate, formal risk assessment and in those instances, we encourage using Real-Time Risk-Management to quickly assess a situation, make a control decision, implement it and monitor it to ensure it is accomplishing the goal of risk reduction and having a safe

  • AFIMSC lays foundation for B-21 beddown

    As the world got its first glimpse of the Department of the Air Force’s new stealth bomber Dec. 2, the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center was preparing select installations for the impending B-21 Raider beddown.

  • AFRL celebrates new high-powered microwave laboratory

    The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, held a ribbon-cutting ceremony, Dec. 7, 2022, for the opening of the new High-Power Electromagnetic, or HPEM, Effects and Modeling Facility, a 12,000-square-foot, $6 million project.