AFMC Command News

  • Uniform office tests for comfort, safety

    Every day, more than 300,000 Airmen around the world put on their uniform. But there's only one office that makes sure every uniform is comfortable and more importantly, safe."The Air Force Uniform Office mission is to design, develop, and sustain Air Force uniform items and some mission essential

  • EOD welcomes home last Army support team

    When a team of explosive ordnance disposal technicians returned from deployment Sept. 14, it closed the final chapter in a mission that lasted more than a decade.Family, co-workers and friends of Tech Sgt. Joseph Burke, Tech. Sgt. Michael Edwards and Senior Airman Joshua Frehner, assigned to the

  • DRAGON 'fires up' for flight

    The U.S. Air Force and NATO are undergoing a cooperative development effort -- known as the DRAGON program -- to upgrade the cockpits of their E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. DRAGON stands for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Replacement of Avionics for Global Operations

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • C-17 treads into new territory

    As important as ailerons, rudders and elevators are to the fundamental movement of any aircraft in flight, its tires are equally important while moving on the ground.Since August, the C-17 Global Reach Integrated Test Team at Edwards AFB has been putting the C-17's new Dunlop tires through the

  • Wolfenbarger notified of Order of the Sword induction

    In an emotional ceremony Sep. 3, Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, learned she has been selected for induction into the AFMC Order of the Sword.The surprise notification was made in front of hundreds of Airmen from Wright-Patterson as well as senior leaders from

  • 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