June 26, 2019 Investment in 3D printing helps Team Edwards’ fleet aloft The 412th Maintenance Squadron is leveraging 3D printing technology to help keep Edwards’ aircraft flying, no matter their age.
June 26, 2019 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
June 25, 2019 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.
June 25, 2019 Aerospace Sustainment Directorate receives the L-A-M-P trophy The Logistics Airmen Mastering Possibilities, or L-A-M-P, Award is on the move this month. The most recent recipient is the Ogden Air Logistics Complex’s Aerospace Sustainment Directorate
June 25, 2019 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.
June 25, 2019 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
June 25, 2019 AF Academy teams up with Test Pilot School in new candidacy program New partnership unveiled between Air Force Academy and Test Pilot School
June 25, 2019 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
June 24, 2019 DoD’s SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch to host AFIT’s Space Object Self-Tracker WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Space Object Self-Tracker flight experiment is set to launch on the Department of Defense’s first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket on June 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The SOS is a self-sufficient, low-cost,
June 24, 2019 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.
June 21, 2019 (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.
June 21, 2019 What it means to me to be back in the Air Force – The grass is not always greener At 38 years old I know I am one of oldest, or as I like to refer to it, “most senior” active duty lieutenants around. Considering the journey I’ve taken just to get right where I am now, I would say I feel the deepest privilege just to do what I do each day here in the Air Force.
June 21, 2019 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
June 21, 2019 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)
June 21, 2019 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