AFMC Command News

  • Leadership, teamwork, community service in abundance at MYOY Summit

    SAN ANTONIO – Twenty eight of the Air Force’s best and brightest youth came to south Texas June 17-21 as part of the 2019 Air Force Installation Military Youth of the Year Summit.Some came with installation MYoY wins, others with both installation and state titles, but all possessed strong qualities

  • AFIMSC redesignates contracting, services units

    AFIMSC Commander Maj. Gen. Brad Spacy redesignated the organization’s contracting and services operations as the Air Force Installation Contracting Center and the Air Force Services Center. Those units were previsously designated as activity and agency respectively.

  • 2019 Warrior Games begin

    Jon Stewart, a comedian, was once again the master of ceremonies to officially open the games. He mixed humor with a compassion and seriousness about wounded warriors that seems to resonate with service members and families.

  • F-22 Program Office hosts inaugural Rapid Acquisition Forum

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – In an effort to collaborate, share best practices, and tackle cross platform issues, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s F-22 Program Office hosted its inaugural Rapid Acquisition Forum June 11-12 at the National Museum of the United States Air

  • Music, USAF Thunderbirds highlight concert, military appreciation

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The fourth Hometown Heroes Military Appreciation Night June 20 at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering celebrated local Airmen and veterans with music by country star Chris Janson and a first-time appearance on stage by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds.Stormy skies

  • Hanscom takes next step on Enterprise IT

    Air Force Life Cycle Management officials here awarded a $66 million “Compute and Store” other transaction agreement to Accenture on June 21 for IT as-a-Service risk reduction experiments.

  • (VIDEO) B-52 continues “mothership” role during hypersonic test

    In a scene reminiscent of the old days of a B-52 mothership carrying an X-15 underneath a wing, the 419th Flight Test Squadron successfully conducted the first flight test of the AGM-183A Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, at Edwards Air Force Base, California, June 12.

  • Air Force Research Laboratory prepares DSX spacecraft for launch

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Air Force Research Laboratory engineers have completed the final assembly and integration of the Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) spacecraft in preparation for its placement on the first-ever Department of Defense SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch vehicle.The DOD

  • Green Propellant Infusion Mission to test AFRL-developed green propellant

    EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA – NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, along with co-investigators, including the Air Force Research Laboratory, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, the Space and Missile Systems Center, and Aerojet, are scheduled to launch Ball’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM)

  • Views from the fishbowl: getting to know the new AFMC commander

    The first thing that Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. placed on his desk when he arrived at the Air Force Materiel Command headquarters was not a nameplate, laptop or a to-do list for his first few days in office.Rather, it was a clear glass fishbowl containing a single orange goldfish with wide eyes