AFMC Command News

  • Project Strike Rodeo: F-15E loaded with five JASSMs

    The 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron completed a munitions proof-of-concept called Project Strike Rodeo, May 11, 2021, that validated loading five AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) on an F-15E Strike Eagle. This lays the foundation for follow-on flight testing that would more

  • 76th EDMX trains to repair aircraft battle damage

    As sounds of explosions rang out, members of the 76th Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Flight scrambled to take cover. They seamlessly affixed their gas masks onto their faces in response and quickly ran to the nearest shelter.Upon arrival at the shelter, Staff Sgt. Harrison Mishler, Expeditionary

  • Community Action Team champions AFMC Airmen needs

    The job of identifying, assessing and advocating for the needs of the big ‘A’ Airmen of the Air Force Materiel Command primarily falls to one group, the Community Action Team, or CAT. The CAT is a senior-leader-driven working group designed to prioritize community issues involving resilience and

  • Innovation leads to solutions, processes with iHub

    The website encourages collaboration and increases shared knowledge between AFICC/KU, USAFE-AFAFRICA contracting squadrons and mission-focused business leaders, or MFBL, to spark innovations. Change agents can use the website as a filter for information to streamline processes or solve issues within

  • New force protection teams to leverage A.I., ‘robotic dogs’ at Tyndall

    Two Hanscom teams are helping to build the “base of the future” by integrating an exciting new force protection technology at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. Teams within the Force Protection and Special Programs Divisions, both headquartered here, supplied and integrated the 325th Security Forces

  • Celebrate Armed Forces Day with 'Plane Talks' at the National Museum USAF

    To celebrate Armed Forces Day, the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will host “Plane Talks” on May 15 from 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., offering visitors a special opportunity to interact with subject matter experts who will be stationed at aircraft throughout the museum. Included among the more

  • OC-ALC commander signs third Educational Partnership Agreement

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex commander signed an Educational Partnership Agreement with Oklahoma Christian University April 28, 2021. This is the third such partnership the OC-ALC has formed with a local university in the last year.

  • From dog handler to legal chief: Airman ascends ranks from quiet liftoff

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Lt. Col. Dan Watson traded his oak leaf for the silver eagle May 1 within the same gates as his first assignment, joining the tiny 1 percent of active-duty personnel who have achieved a rank of colonel or higher in the Air Force.But Watson, now chief of

  • 609th AOC optimizes ATO production, first to use KRADOS operationally

    U.S. Air Forces Central’s 609th Air Operations Center made history this week when it became the first AOC to operationally utilize the Kessel Run All Domain Operations Suite to plan and execute the Master Air Attack Plan.The KRADOS suite of applications, which was developed by the Air Force Life