30 Sep 2021

Processes, strategies track cradle-to-grave lifecycle

The development of strategies and processes for smooth, predictable acquisition in an integrated digital environment throughout the lifecycle of a particular program is the hallmark of line of effort three in the Air Force Materiel Command Digital Campaign. The goal is to acquire products and services digitally to support lifecycle activities from concept to disposal using an integrated digital environment.

30 Sep 2021

TRICARE pharmacy copayments to increase in 2022

Do you get your prescription drugs through TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery or at a TRICARE retail network pharmacy? If so, you’ll pay anywhere from $1 to $8 more in copayments starting Jan. 1.

29 Sep 2021

Airman uses Banshee experience to boost innovation efforts

An acquisition professional here is leveraging his recent Banshee training program experience to expand innovative efforts within the Digital Directorate.

29 Sep 2021

AFTC launches centralized hiring supplement

The Air Force Test Center Centralized Selection Program launches 1 October. The program aims to increase diversity and speed up the hiring process for civilians to build the Air Force Materiel Command We Need.

29 Sep 2021

Virtual symposium to focus on women in leadership

The Air Force Materiel Command will host its second Women’s Leadership Symposium Nov. 8, with the theme of “Women in Leadership – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”

28 Sep 2021

Kessel Run’s SlapShot saves lives

Kessel Run’s SlapShot application was recently used in what is being said is the largest non-combatant evacuation in history by U.S. and coalition forces, with a total of 122,300 people airlifted from Kabul, Afghanistan.

27 Sep 2021

Retirement brings reflections on service, people

Chief Master Sgt. Stanley C. Cadell, the Air Force Materiel Command’s senior enlisted leader, will retire after 30 years of active-duty Air Force service, Oct. 1.

27 Sep 2021

OC-ALC researchers to speak at Digital Avionics Systems Conference

Department 70 is the Oklahoma City Air Logistic Complex’s applied research laboratory that focuses on research that is relevant to the complex and supports the various platforms it sustains. The Digital Avionics Systems Conference is an academic conference backed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and their focus in on sharing research in the realm of digital avionics. This conference gives academics, industry and government researchers the opportunity to show what they are working on and present their research findings.

24 Sep 2021

DAF awards Rolls-Royce B-52H engine contract

The competitive single award contract provides for 608 military derivative commercial engines, plus spare engines, associated support equipment and commercial engineering data, to include sustainment activities, to be used on the B-52H bomber fleet.

24 Sep 2021

AFGSC wraps up divestiture of 17 B-1 aircraft, moving toward B-21

Air Force Global Strike Command concluded its divestiture of 17 B-1B bombers Sept. 23, as the last aircraft departed Edwards Air Force Base, California, to fly to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

24 Sep 2021

Virtual Reality brings T-7A tasks to life

An AFLCMC team used three dimensional (3-D) models and virtual reality to certify and verify technical orders for the T-7A Red Hawk advanced pilot trainer.

24 Sep 2021

African Queen Half Track Vehicle to be Highlighted During ‘Plane Talks’ at National Museum of The U.S. Air Force

DAYTON, Ohio –The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will host U.S. Army Lt. Col. (Ret.) Mark

24 Sep 2021

Cross Center Personnel Exchange Program: A Message from Mr. Dennis D’Angelo, AFSC Executive Director

The Cross Center Personnel Exchange Program, or ccPEP, will provide career development opportunities to those within the 0343, 0346, 1670 and 2003 series by applying for reassignment between Air Force Sustainment Center and Life Cycle Management Center through a data call that will go out October 10.

24 Sep 2021

National Museum of The U.S. Air Force Selected For Air Force Heritage Award

DAYTON, Ohio — The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force was recently selected by the U.S. Air Force

24 Sep 2021

DEI Office to take proactive, preventive, accountable approach to EEO matters

Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, has stood up the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office for the installation. The DEI Office serves as the accountability arm of a model Equal Employment Opportunity program that provides proactive, reactive, measurable and actionable efforts to eliminate inequity and prevent discrimination before it happens.