AFMC Command News

  • Future lab to augment rapid software development

    Brig. Gen. John C. Kubinec, WR-ALC commander, and a team of community partners broke ground on the future software engineering lab at The Lofts at Capricorn at 520 Martin Luther King Blvd. in Macon on Oct. 14.

  • Air Force hosts Hypersonics Pitch Day

    The purpose of Air Force “pitch days” is to do business at the speed of ideas by inspiring and accelerating startup and small business creativity toward answering national security challenges.

  • Team efforts on detect and avoid systems lead to achievement award

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – A team led by the Communication, Navigation and Surveillance/Air Traffic Management Center of Excellence here was honored Oct. 22 for their ground-breaking success with ground-based detect and avoid systems for remotely piloted aircraft.During its annual awards

  • Tinker’s big DROP from first to fourth in energy consumption

    After two years of cost-effective modernization of its energy infrastructure, Tinker Air Force Base dropped from first to fourth place in Air Force energy consumption.  It’s been almost four years since Tinker began looking at ways to reduce its status as the highest energy consuming installation in

  • Tinker’s Cuban Missile Crisis connection

    It was on Oct. 16, 1962, that photographs were revealed to the administration of President John F. Kennedy that the Soviet Union was constructing sites for long- and short-range nuclear missiles in Cuba.This revelation sparked what would become known as the Cuban Missile Crisis and represented some

  • AFMC commander, civic leaders visit Hill AFB

    Air Force Materiel Command's commander, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., and 17 community leaders from around the country visited Hill Air Force Base Oct. 21-22, touring facilities and learning more about impactful missions here.

  • AFMC commander, civic leaders visit Hill AFB

    Air Force Materiel Command's commander, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr., and 17 community leaders from around the country visited Hill Air Force Base Oct. 21-22, touring facilities and learning more about impactful missions here.