AFMC Command News

  • Holiday Message to the AFSC Workforce

    This is a meaningful time of year. With upcoming celebrations of faith on many people’s minds, campaigns for giving in full swing, and brisk weather adding a spring to the step, there is no other season like it.After a challenging year, now is the time to enjoy the wonder of the season. Simple

  • Hanscom looks to modernize NCR defense system

    The National Capital Region-Integrated Air Defense System program management office here recently released a request for information to modernize systems that defend the NCR.The NCR-IADS was created shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to provide low-altitude, low-airspeed detection

  • Physical health can’t be on back burner

    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many of our daily routines, making it easy to put healthy habits on the back burner. And it can be especially difficult if you’re working from or home or caring for other family members – or both. As we continue to cope, we can still make physical health a priority

  • Coping with Social Isolation

    While the most immediate threat from COVID-19 is the physical health of those infected, the pandemic will also have wide-ranging effects on the social and mental health of others living through the crisis.

  • AMXG innovates training of aircraft mechanics

    Hiring skilled aircraft mechanics is becoming more and more challenging, so one Hill Air Force Base unit has innovated its efforts to improve training processes for new hires.

  • EW team, AFMC teammates find way to restore pod

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – When a front-line fighter squadron needed assistance, several Air Force Materiel Command teams banded together to resurrect a long-dormant pod vital to protecting pilots flying in harm’s way.  The pod in question – an ALQ-184 – is an electronic countermeasure

  • AFMC unit tests wearables to detect COVID-19

    Airmen from the 649th Munitions Squadron at Hill Air Force Base are sporting a new smart watch and soon will add a smart ring that will alert them when they may be coming down with illnesses such as COVID-19 or other viral infections.

  • 78th Security Forces Squadron receives new K-9 SUV’s

    ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- A new 78th Air Base Wing Security Forces Squadron K-9 modified SUV stands ready for duty at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, Dec. 3, 2020. The new modified K-9 SUV has four-wheel drive, more space for the K-9 team to operate and an enhanced cooling system to prevent the

  • AFLCMC awards contract for Skyborg prototypes

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded to three companies to produce missionized prototypes with the ability to fly in experimentation events while teaming with manned aircraft.  The contracts were awarded with a 24-month period of performance

  • Signed lease signals Kirtland research park underway

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force and Thunderbird Kirtland Development, LLC, recently reached agreement and signed a long-term lease to begin developing a planned commercial research park at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.The agreement, part of the Air Force’s Enhanced Use