AFMC Command News

  • 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.

  • AFGE Council 214 is the unified voice of AFMC

    How do you ensure the individual needs of all employees are met when your workforce numbers are over 35,000 people? One effective way is to use the “unified voice” of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 214, which serves as a bargaining council for employees within AFMC.

  • AFCEC’s partnership helps bring drinking water to Moose Creek 

     A joint civilian-military project is providing drinking water to businesses and residences in Moose Creek, Alaska, where per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, impacted water wells at levels above Environmental Protection Agency advisories.   The Air Force Civil Engineer Center, the U.S.

  • Hill's 3D printing office supports AF maintenance operations

    A small unit in the Ogden Air Logistics Complex is making big waves by helping the Air Force replace hard to find parts and tools. The unit is called RAPID, or Reverse Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing, Prototyping, Innovation, and Design, and its aim is to support maintenance operations through

  • DAF announces 2022 Air Force Design Award winners

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center recently announced the winners of the 2022 Air Force Design Awards, recognizing four facilities that demonstrate excellence in design, sustainability and energy efficiency. “This year’s winning projects promote creative and outstanding design solutions that

  • Connecting warfighters at the edge with a RIPL  

    The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, demonstrated its robust information provisioning layer, or RIPL, a cybersecurity tool that securely manages information across a network like ripples in the water, Sept. 8, 2022, at the Stockbridge Experimental Facility, a 300-acre site southwest of Rome,