AFMC Command News

  • Civil engineer heads community act of kindness

    A Hanscom employee has taken the lead in supporting local establishments as COVID-19 continues to impact his community. Scott Sheehan, a 66th Civil Engineering Division environmental engineer, has partnered with a neighbor to start a fundraiser to benefit restaurant workers in Salem, Massachusetts,

  • AFLCMC looks to ‘virtually’ revolutionize training, maintenance

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Rapid Sustainment Office is looking for ways to take products like Ironman’s heads-up display from the movie screen to the flightline.  As the lead organization for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center charged with improving the sustainment enterprise,

  • Spark Tank 2021 finalists announced

    It’s been nearly a year since Master Sgt. Gabrial Valenzuela, Capt. David Coyle and Lt. Adam Treece were selected as co-winners of Spark Tank 2020 for their Smart Weapons Loading Checklist and Low-Cost Threat Emitter concepts.

  • National Museum USAF to host new Space exhibit

    A new interactive exhibit designed to spark imaginations by igniting the desire for space exploration and discovery, and inspire new generations of explorers to dream of the possibilities that lie ahead, will be on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force from Jan. 28-Sept. 6.The

  • AFRL awards $3.5 million to Biotechnology Grand Challenge winners

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Biotechnology Grand Challenges have been awarded to four teams in effort to spearhead innovation among small businesses in the field of biotechnology for the Department of Defense. The challenges, each of which comes

  • Wage-Grade career progression site LIVE

    The Wage-Grade career progression website is now live. Serving as a one-stop shop, this resource is available to help equip wage grade employees with the tools to plan their paths of progression. Visit https//cs2.eis.af.mil/sites/22298/wgcareerpath..

  • Ogden ALC cuts ribbon on software facility

    (Left to right) Brig. Gen. Cauley von Hoffman, Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander, Karen Fairclough, Software Organizational Development Office section chief, and Jim Diamond, 309th Software Engineering Group director, during the ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of a

  • Ogden ALC cuts ribbon on software facility

    (Left to right) Brig. Gen. Cauley von Hoffman, Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander, Karen Fairclough, Software Organizational Development Office section chief, and Jim Diamond, 309th Software Engineering Group director, during the ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of a

  • Air Force to allow longer braids, ponytails, bangs for women

    As an outcome of the 101st Air Force uniform board, Air Force women will be able to wear their hair in up to two braids or a single ponytail with bulk not exceeding the width of the head and length not extending below a horizontal line running between the top of each sleeve inseam at the under arm

  • Engineer’s planning generates new machining systems for complex

    The 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group in the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, has received new computerized numerical control machining systems to replace machines that have been around for more than three decades.

  • AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range discovers asteroid satellite

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) - “I was wrong,” said Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Jack Drummond, when looking back to his early research on asteroids and their orbiting moons. Drummond is an astronomer at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate Starfire Optical Range (SOR) located