AFMC Command News

  • Air Force extends SAPR services to AF civilians

    The Air Force released a policy memo Aug. 24 allowing Air Force civilian employees who are victims of sexual assault to file restricted and unrestricted reports with their installation's sexual assault response coordinator.The policy is effective immediately and allows SARCs and sexual assault

  • On the radar: Robins lab to support C-5 software, hardware upgrades

    The C-5 System Integration Lab here has been prepping to accommodate upcoming changes to the weapon system's color weather radar capabilities for the last several months.Full-scale development is now underway by Lockheed Martin Corp. to update to a new version of the color weather radar, as well as

  • SecAF speaks on acquisition, partnerships and priorities at Hanscom

    During a visit to Hanscom AFB Aug. 20-21, Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James discussed her top priorities with Airmen and state officials while emphasizing the importance of the acquisition base and its partnerships."Hanscom is a unique ecosystem of engineering, technology and

  • Major savings result from AEDC wind tunnel improvement program

    Replacing the Test Article Control System and Data Acquisition System feedthrough assemblies used at the 16-foot transonic wind tunnel here is saving the Arnold Engineering Development Complex more than $1 million this year.This effort is part of the Improved Transonic Test Capability, or IMTTC,

  • Rolls-Royce continues testing latest Trent engine at AEDC

    The Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-TEN, or Thrust, Efficiency and New Technology, engine was recently tested for performance, operability and icing certification at the Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility C-2 engine test cell at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex.Prior to the end of the test

  • 'This is depot work - this is what this base was meant to do'

    Heavy structural repairs occur every single day at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, yet one in particular has received some extra attention during the last few months.As an F-15C was moving early on through programmed depot maintenance in the 561st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, a vertical

  • British woman to run AF half-marathon in girl's honor

    The daughter of two Airmen stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base may cross the finish line of the U.S. Air Force Half Marathon Sept. 19 -- in the arms of either her father or a British woman who is coming to run in her honor.Grace Golembiewski, 2, the daughter of Tech. Sgt. Paul Golembiewski

  • Edwards squadron does prerequisite testing for KC-46 program

    The 418th Flight Test Squadron is setting the stage for the arrival of the new KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueler with legacy tanker fuel surge testing conducted July 26 through Aug. 9. Both the KC-135 and the KC-10 were tested successively on the ground to baseline surge pressure environments.The same

  • JSF ITF reaches historic sortie milestone at 'lightning' speed

    The Joint Strike Fighter Integrated Test Force, which oversees all three test variants of the F-35 Lightning II, has proved its resolve to test and equip the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps with their latest fifth-generation fighter. This is evidenced by achieving a historical milestone

  • AFMC commander praises Team Hill Airmen, 'AFSC Way'

    During a visit here Aug. 5-6, Air Force Materiel Command's top leader met with Team Hill Airmen and experienced firsthand how Air Force Sustainment Center units are implementing the "AFSC Way," a program focused on delivering high-quality combat power quickly and at less cost.Gen. Ellen M.

  • AFMC commander highlights new AFMC mission, vision, family

    Without a culture of respect and resilience, Airmen can't carry forward the Air Force's core missions of air and space superiority; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; rapid global mobility; global strike; and, command and control.It is that culture that Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Air

  • AFMC commander cites AFSC focus on generating combat power

    The new commander of Air Force Materiel Command may have had to cross three time zones to complete her immersion of the Air Force Sustainment Center last week, but, geographical variance aside, what she saw was a highly connected enterprise focused on generating combat power for America."Getting to

  • Ogden ALC saves time, money with MHU-83 lift work

    For many years, the 526th Electronics Maintenance Squadron, part of the Ogden Air Logistics Complex, overhauled Munitions Handling Unit-83 lift trucks in support of supply-chain customers at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.The MHU-83 is an aerial lift truck that lifts and secures munitions, weapons,