AFMC Command News

  • Discover educational opportunities at education and training fair

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Want to know what educational opportunities are waiting for you that can help further your career? Come out to the annual 88th Force Support Squadron’s Education and Training Fair on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the National Museum of the

  • Plans for 2020 Air Force Marathon have already begun

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Another successful Air Force Marathon with over 12,700 runners has come to an end and the marathon staff are already hard at work preparing for next year’s race. “Producing the marathon is like a big party celebrating someone’s journey,” said Brandon Hough,

  • New Air Force justice information system goes live

    ARLINGTON, Va. -- Air Force Security Forces Defenders uploaded the first case to the new Air Force Justice Information System last week, marking the launch of the most modern criminal data reporting system in the Department of Defense and providing global integrated awareness of criminal activities

  • AFIMSC fiscal closeout promotes readiness, supports Airmen and families

    Funding runway lights at Little Rock; replacing cooling towers at Wright-Patterson; renovating the iconic Air Force Academy chapel; and natural disaster recovery at Air Force installations around the globe. No fiscal year better illustrates the innovation and flexibility behind the Air Force

  • Air Force stands up new Advanced Aircraft PEO

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, officially stood up the Program Executive Office for Advanced Aircraft during an Oct. 2 ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.The new office was created to

  • AFMC hosts command chief orientation

    Air Force Materiel Command held its first AFMC Command Chief Orientation, Sep. 30-Oct. 1 to familiarize new wing and center command chiefs with the overall organizational mission and how their units fit into the bigger picture. The event provided the new enlisted leaders a greater understanding of

  • AFRL set to open new Center of Excellence with Carnegie Mellon University

    ARLINGTON,Va. – The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate will kick off a new $5 million university led Center of Excellence (CoE) with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The new CoE focuses on Data-Driven

  • Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductor

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed liquid metal systems which autonomously change structure so that they become better conductors in response to strain.Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically,

  • Air Force and Congressional leaders visit Tinker to address housing

    Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe, chairman of the U.S. Senate Armed Service Committee, and Matthew Donovan, acting secretary of the Air Force, are visiting Tinker Air Force Base this week to learn more about a recent discovery of possible disturbed asbestos in older privatized housing.Tinker leadership