AFMC Command News

  • NFL honors Eglin Airman

    When Tech. Sgt. Mike Harder traveled home for the holidays, he enjoyed time with his family, his friends and his favorite football team.Harder, a 96th Security Forces Squadron Combat Arms instructor, is a life-long New England Patriots fan.  He knew his first trip home in two years would be

  • Warfighters reap benefits as critical upgrades continue

    The Airborne Warning and Control System 40/45 program office is delivering, and potentially accelerating, critical upgrades to the service's primary airborne early warning and control platform.Replacing the mission computing system and software originally installed in the 1970s, the new capability

  • Life Cycle Management Center helps design transport isolation system

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is playing a unique role in the United States' comprehensive Ebola response efforts in West Africa through the center's involvement in developing a transport isolation system.The system will enable safe aeromedical evacuation of Department of Defense

  • Hanscom to assist Qatar with air and missile defense system

    The Foreign Military Sales Division here will soon be expanding its role to assist Qatar with the creation of an Integrated Air and Missile Defense System.As part of a $7.3 billion FMS case between Qatar and the United States, the Air Force -- specifically the Battle Management Directorate here at

  • 'Whiskey' to perform personnel recovery mission

    The Air Force has officially designated the new Combat Rescue Helicopter as the HH-60W.The need to acquire a new personnel recovery capability resulted in the June 2014 contract award to Sikorsky for eventual production and fielding of up to 112 aircraft with a potential value of approximately $7.9

  • Air Force announces AFMC senior leader moves

    Air Force officials announced Nov. 20, 2014, the senior leader appointments of two Air Force Materiel Command general officers.Brig. Gen. Mark K. Johnson will become commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. He is currently the commander of the Defense

  • Unity, dedication highlight Hill's success during inspection

    Hill Air Force Base units received high marks after a unit effectiveness inspection wrapped up earlier this month.The Air Force Materiel Command Inspector General team assessed missions across the base from Oct. 27 through Nov. 10, inspecting the 75th Air Base Wing, Ogden Air Logistics Complex, Life

  • Air Force announces AFMC senior leader changes

    The Air Force announced Nov. 17, 2014, the nomination of Lt. Gen. Andrew E. Busch for re-assignment from Air Force Materiel Command vice commander to director of the Defense Logistics Agency at Fort Belvoir, Va. He will be replaced by Maj. Gen. H. Brent Baker, currently director of logistics at

  • Air Force announces AFIMSC HQ candidate bases

    Air Force officials announced today Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia; Joint Base San Antonio, Texas; Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, as candidate bases to potentially host the headquarters for the new Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center.The Air Force

  • Edwards flight test community prepares for federal spectrum auction

    Since the rise in demand for commercial spectrum and faster data transfer rates for commercial wireless use, flight testers throughout the country have been working toward solutions to be able to function in line with this compatible growth.On Nov. 13, the Federal Communications Commission conducted

  • Utah Jazz, local military join forces in Commitment to Service project

    In honor of Veterans Day, Hill Air Force Base and other military services partnered with Utah Jazz players for a joint mission Nov. 6, 2014.They worked together at the George E. Whalen Veterans Affairs Medical Center as part of a collaboration between the NBA and Department of Defense known as the

  • AFIMSC(P) vice commander briefs mobility community

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center (Provisional) vice commander gave military and industry mobility professionals an update about the new center's development Oct. 31 in Nashville, Tennessee.Col. Brian Duffy presented his remarks at the 2014 Airlift/Tanker Association and Air

  • Shape-changing flap takes to air

    A feature of aircraft design unchanged for nearly a century may have been twisted into a new shape as a result of a revolutionary new structure being tested in the Mojave Desert. A specially modified Gulfstream III jet successfully took to the skies over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center Nov.

  • Air Force Research Laboratory honors top scientists, engineers

    Air Force Research Laboratory honored 12 outstanding scientists and engineers at the 2014 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards Banquet Oct. 30 for their exceptional contributions to advancing technologies for the warfighter. Eight were awarded AFRL Fellow status, the laboratory's highest award for