AFMC Command News

  • Team Hill Frontlines: Jim Perkins

    Jim Perkins works in the 75th Air Base Wing's Plans and Programs Office as the Installation OPSEC Signature Manager. His job is to look at critical information to determine if friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, then determines if any information obtained or vulnerabilities

  • Air Force partners to create B-1B "digital twin"

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – A new research effort will create a virtual B-1B that could help the Air Force predict the future of these supersonic bombers.    The AFLCMC B-1 Division is sponsoring a research project with Wichita State University’s National Institute of Aviation Research

  • Logistics, aerial port teams support re-deployment

    Coronavirus Disease 2019 is not stopping Team Robins from providing crucial support to its mission partners. The 78th Logistics Readiness Squadron and the 94th Aerial Port Squadron pulled together amidst the crisis to re-deploy members of the 461st Air Control Wing and the 116th Air Control Wing

  • $6.4 billion contingency support contract increases field assistance

    The Air Force recently awarded an eight-year, $6.4 billion contingency support contract to eight firms. The Air Force Contract Augmentation Program, or AFCAP, is a rapid response contingency contract tool managed and serviced through the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center enterprise.

  • AEDC Commander holds second COVID-19 town hall

    In the second of what he intends to make a weekly occurrence during the operationally urgent posture now in place, Arnold Engineering Development Complex Commander Col. Jeffrey Geraghty took to social media April 15 to provide updates on the COVID-19 situation at Arnold Air Force Base.During the

  • Tinker Frontlines: Meet Anthony Underwood

    Tinker Frontlines: Meet Anthony UnderwoodAnthony Underwood is an Industrial Engineering Technician for the 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex.Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Underwood has served the U.S. Air Force 15 years. His primary duties within PMXG

  • Robins Frontlines: Eric Yentzer

    Eric Yentzer, 572nd Commodities Maintenance Squadron aircraft mechanic, prepares the surface of a C-17 Globemaster thrust reverser shell for reassembly at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex.The 402nd CMXG provides depot maintenance support to major weapons systems, primarily F-15, C-5, C-130

  • ET-CTF completes new test bed flight tests

    The Emerging Technology Combined Test Force successfully completed flight tests on its newest autonomous aircraft test bed last month at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The flight tests are in support of the Skyborg project with the goal to ultimately provide an autonomous software testing

  • Free online tutoring available to military and DoD civilian families

    To help alleviate the academic stress being experienced by DoD-affiliated personnel and their families due to COVID-19 disruptions, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Military Community and Family Policy (MC&FP) has temporarily expanded eligibility for the Tutor.com for U.S. Military Families program.

  • Secretary Barrett views AFMC missions in action during COVID-19

    Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett paid a surprise visit to Air Force Materiel Command Airmen executing critical mission activities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, April 21. The visit provided an opportunity to highlight the countless ways AFMC Airmen are supporting the

  • AFLCMC led team delivers isolation container prototype for testing

    Rapidly developed in response to the United States Transportation Command's Joint Urgent Operational Need, the Negatively Pressurized Conex is designed to fit inside of a C-17 aircraft and enable the safe transport of as many as 28 patients, both ambulatory and litter, and teams of medical