AFMC Command News

  • 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

  • Hanscom PEOs lauded for small business practices

    Two Hanscom program executive officers were recently recognized at the Air Force level for their contributions and efforts within the small business community.Maj. Gen. Craig Olson, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks PEO and Steven Wert, Battle Management PEO, were two of

  • Air Force to change enlisted evaluations, promotions

    Air Force officials announced a series of sweeping changes to the Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System July 31.The changes are intended to ensure the Air Force truly makes job performance the driving factor and will be implemented incrementally beginning in August 2014 and

  • Strategic agility is the future of the Air Force

    As the Air Force prepares for new challenges and opportunities of the coming decades, it faces sobering 21st-century realities: global centers of power have become more distributed and the terrorism threat more dispersed. Most importantly, the emerging environment is demonstrating a trend that could

  • AFMC wins Air Force Small Business top command awards

    Air Force Director of Small Business Programs Mark Teskey presented Air Force Materiel Command winners with the 2013 Secretary of the Air Force Annual Small Business Awards during a July 24 visit to the headquarters here. The Secretary of the Air Force Annual Small Business Awards Program recognizes