AFMC Command News

  • Air Force names 2020 Athletes of the Year

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force’s 2020 Male and Female Athletes of the Year both hail from Wright-Patterson AFB.Capt. Amber Hansen, commander of Global Activities Squadron Detachment 4 at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and Airman 1st Class Michael Mannozzi, who

  • Air Combat Command asks for C2IMERA

    Command and Control Incident Management Emergency Response Application is being directed for use by all ACC installations as a result of the application's successful implementation across more than 40 Air Force Installations.

  • AFMC Connect September focus: Resilience

    Resilience is the AFMC Connect focus for September. Resilience is the strength to find positive solutions, or a ‘better way’ during times of distress.

  • Engineer’s side hustle could fly BAF data capture to new heights

    Aleksandr Yarovinskiy, an electronics engineer with the 772nd Test Squadron’s Benefield Anechoic Facility radio frequency measurement team, is building an unmanned aircraft system from scratch in his spare time. This drone will have the capability to position a radio receiver or emitter – or both –

  • Enlisted Test course launches at USAF Test Pilot School

    The United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California, graduated its Enlisted Test Professional Course, August 27, 2021. Though taught shortly in 2012 and 2018, a sustainable course idea was rebirthed in 2019 by TPS which came to fruition this year.

  • AFCEC expands ‘RADR readiness’ with new training sites 

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – Just a few years ago, the Air Force Civil Engineer Center overhauled the way Airmen recover damaged airfields. Today, the center is helping expand Air Force Rapid Airfield Damage Repair training opportunities by more than quadrupling the number of stateside training

  • AFIMSC Remembers 9/11: The last call

    Go home. Those were the last words Don Arias spoke to his younger brother, Adam, on Sept. 11, 2001. Adam worked for an investment company in the south World Trade Center tower.

  • Commentary: 9/11 recollections

    Sept. 11, 2001, was Stephen Ziadie's first full day in the office at his new assignment at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. In this commentary, he shares what 9/11 means to him as he looks back on the terrorist attacks of that day and the post-9/11 years he spent in uniform.

  • AFIMSC members recall 9/11: the longest day

    A jammed printer, a last minute decision and a view from the skies of D.C. the night of Sept. 12, 2001. These are the moments Linda Alcala, Kirk Phillips and Dr. Kirsten Hawley carry with them from 9/11.

  • Team uses game to match problems with solutions

    Rather than pitch a single idea for a problem, the cell will bring in multiple prototypes in a means to find the best “match.” They expect this approach in exposing new technologies will help identify opportunities to leverage across the enterprise.

  • Immunization entwined in Armed Forces history

    National Immunization Awareness Month is an annual observance held in August to emphasize the importance of vaccination to protect the health of people of all ages. The term immunization is used interchangeably with vaccination, although they are not one in the same.

  • AFRL extends capability for testing solid rocket motors with new equipment

    EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory's Rocket Propulsion Division has a new capability, a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar system, also known as a Kolsky bar, that measures stress at high strain rates and helps analyze material behavior under severe conditions. “This