AFMC Command News

  • Hill AFB begins F-22 Raptor depot maintenance consolidation

    The Air Force's decision to consolidate depot maintenance for the F-22 Raptor at Hill Air Force Base in order to reduce costs and improve efficiencies is coming to fruition. F-22 depot maintenance, which is currently split between Hill AFB's Ogden Air Logistics Complex and a Lockheed Martin facility

  • Online risk assessment offers ways to evaluate, improve health

    How well do you know yourself? Poor health is not always obvious. Even people who appear healthy can be at risk for medical conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes. The AFMC Health Risk Assessment is a multi-faceted interactive tool offered online at www.afmcwellness.com. Below are some

  • NASA, Edwards say goodbye to historic landmark

    A structure synonymous with NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center for the past 38 years -- the grey-colored space shuttle Mate-Demate Device here -- is being dismantled and demolished as a part of the final chapter in the U.S. space shuttle program.The decision comes three years after the shuttle

  • AFRL internship program inspires innovation, service

    An honors student/student body president, a Ph.D. student at the University of California-Berkeley, and a recently hired mechanical engineer at Robins Air Force Base, Ga.: What do all of these people have in common? They are all former participants of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund Internship

  • Counter-IED Branch receives top AFA award

    A team of Counter-Improvised Explosive Device Branch members from Hanscom will take center stage and receive one of the Air Force Association's top honors during the 2014 Air and Space Conference Award Ceremony in National Harbor, Md., Sept 15, 2014.The 12-member C-IED program office, a unit within

  • Minuteman III rocket motor aging surveillance test completed at AEDC

    Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) personnel completed testing of a Minuteman III Stage II motor in the Complex's J-6 Large Rocket Test Facility for aging surveillance of the 48-year-old defense program. "The Stage II motor is part of the Minuteman III Aging and Surveillance test program

  • AEDC, AFRL collaborate to make advances in hypersonic technology

    A highly successful integrated aerodynamic and aerothermal test and analysis of a twin scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise vehicle was completed in the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 facility in White Oak, Md.Researchers and engineers from AEDC and the U.S. Air

  • SecAF makes first visit to Robins Air Force Base

    Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James visited Robins Air Force Base, Ga., Aug. 21-22 to get an up close look at the installation's diverse and dynamic missions.During the secretary's first visit to the installation, she spent two days touring several areas of Georgia's largest industrial

  • C-130 Hercules still going strong at 60

    August 23 marks the 60th anniversary of the C-130 Hercules' first flight in 1954, from Burbank, Calif., to Edwards Air Force Base.Team Edwards took time to reflect on why this aircraft has been so valuable to the Air Force."The C-130 made her debut in 1954, and to this day, if there is a conflict or

  • 82 F-16Ds removed from flight status due to longeron cracks

    U.S. Air Force officials recently removed 82 two-seat F-16D Fighting Falcons from flight status due to the discovery of canopy sill longeron cracks found between the front and rear pilot seats.The cracks were discovered following an immediate action time compliance technical order, or TCTO, to

  • Service members receiving RAND Military Workplace Survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving e-mails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate. "The

  • C-17 division leadership transitions from Wright-Patt to Robins

    The C-17 System Program Office here has experienced another milestone with the recent transition of division leadership from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Col. Amanda Myers has assumed leadership as the Air Force's C-17 system program director, a position which is now based at Robins as