AFMC Command News

  • A Family Affair: Gen. Warner Robins' grandchildren visit base, museum

    The namesake of the city of Warner Robins and Robins Air Force Base had three daughters.Brig. Gen. Augustine Warner Robins and his wife,  Dorothy Gretchen, were the parents of Dorothy Robins Gray, Elizabeth "Betty" Warner Robins and Helen Robins Guilfoyle.On Oct. 26, the three children of the

  • Commentary: AFRL people: A national asset

    We recognized Air Force Research Laboratory's top scientists and engineers on Oct. 22 during the AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards banquet. It was a spectacular event.We inducted seven senior researchers as AFRL Fellows, our most prestigious honor, representing the top 0.2 percent of our

  • AFMC exceeds small business goals two years running

    Aggressive marketing and outreach helped Air Force Materiel Command exceed its small business contracting goal for the second straight year. Also, every AFMC center reached its goal for the second straight year. The fiscal 2015 small business goal was 11.88 percent of contracts awarded, and AFMC

  • Ogden ALC unit awarded prestigious VPP Star status

    Seven years of taking a careful look at its safety and health programs paid off Oct. 20, 2015, when the 309th Electronics Maintenance Group received recognition as a Voluntary Protection Program Star site.The group's 690-plus employees gathered in Centennial Park to receive a flag and a plaque --

  • FAB-T poised for production

    The Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals program here received approval to enter Low Rate Initial Production following a recent Milestone C Department of Defense acquisition board meeting.After more than three years of developmental efforts, the program -- commonly referred to as FAB-T

  • Complex closes out productive year with 217 aircraft

    It has been a productive year at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, more so than at any other time in the last five years. A total of 217 aircraft -- C-5, C-17, C-130 and F-15 -- were produced in fiscal 2015, which ended Sept. 30. That number includes 15 unscheduled depot level maintenance

  • Leveraging expertise focus of Robins' Partnership Summit

    It's about leveraging one another's capabilities, resources and expertise. The Robins Air Force Base Partnership Summit drew more than 100 community and base senior leaders to the Museum of Aviation Oct. 22 to discuss prospective partnerships at Robins. In any given year, the complex conducts about

  • Radar upgrades ensure situation awareness

    A Battle Management program to improve the reliability and maintainability of U.S. Air Force long-range radar systems reached full operational capability recently when all the operational long-range radar sites were certified and deemed suitable and operationally effective.The AN/FPS-117 is a

  • Arnold test facility marks 30 years since Initial Operational Capability

    The 30th anniversary of the Aeropropulsion System Test Facility achieving initial operational capability was Sept. 30, 2015, with the conclusion of a Pratt & Whitney F100 engine test in the facility's C-1 test cell.Upon conception of the large engine test facility in 1965, ASTF provided propulsion

  • Air Force Chief of Staff visits with Hill Airmen

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh A. Welsh III wrapped up a visit to Hill Air Force Base by holding a town-hall-style meeting with the base's Airmen -- and getting a bit emotional."I love you. I love who you are. I love what you do. I love how you stand up for each other," Welsh said. "Thanks

  • KC-46 program refueler touches down at Edwards

    The KC-46 program's first test aircraft, a Boeing 767-2C (EMD-1), departed from its home at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, and touched down at Edwards for the first time Oct. 15, 2015.Boeing and the 418th Flight Test Squadron here are conducting Ground Effects and Fuel Onload Fatigue testing

  • Hill food court worker selected for DOD award

    Holding her award to her aproned chest, right next to her Taco Bell name tag, Patricia Barson beamed."It's my greatest dream in life," said the Army & Air Force Exchange Service employee. "I just want to serve people."Barson was honored Oct. 16, 2015, as one of the Department of Defense's

  • Ogden ALC repairs firefighting C-130 after emergency landing

    The 572nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, like other squadrons within the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, sometimes does "drop-in" work on C-130 Hercules aircraft, adding them into its repair schedule where possible.On Oct. 7, 2015, the unit did a final flight check on a C-130 that literally dropped in