AFMC Command News

  • BACN accomplishments ensure warfighter connectivity

    Three recent achievements demonstrate how a critical communications capability managed here is continuing to keep warfighters connected.The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, or BACN, translates and distributes imagery, video, voice and data, often from disparate elements, improving

  • AFMC Commander's Log -- Memorial Day and Critical Days of Summer

    Team AFMC,This weekend we observe Memorial Day. As Americans, we enjoy an unprecedented level of freedom -- freedom gained and maintained at great price and sacrifice. Please take some time to reflect on the sacrifices of those who paid that price to preserve our freedom.This weekend is also the

  • DOD shows science, technology success despite hard year for workforce

    Despite a year of workforce furloughs and dwindling budgets, the Defense Department's science and technology enterprise reports advances ranging from a full hypersonic weapon system and high-energy lasers to light-based brain treatments and new core capabilities in cyber warfare, senior DOD

  • SecAF, VCSAF outline top priority in memo to Airmen

    In a memo sent to Airmen across the service today, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Larry Spencer challenged Airmen to take responsibility for creating cost saving initiatives within their areas of expertise.The memo reemphasizes one of James' top priorities since

  • STOVL F-35 conducts flight testing

    A Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II is shown performing Crosswind and Wet Runway testing here May 6. Pilot Dan Levin and a team from the F-35 Integrated Test Facility at Patuxent River, Md., accompanied aircraft BF-4 for the deployment to Edwards April 11. Testing

  • DebriSat: data from Destruction

    The space environment presents many hazards for satellites and spacecraft. One of the major hazards is hypervelocity impacts from uncontrolled man-made space debris.The recent Hollywood blockbuster movie Gravity dramatizes a series of catastrophic events that could follow just such an impact. While

  • Cyber security facility transfers to Hanscom

    Officials here cut the ribbon on a new facility that will improve cyber testing and integration with less expense.While the facility at Hanscom is new, the Air Force is actually transferring an operation known as the Intranet Control Weapons System Gateway Integration Facility from a local defense

  • Kirtland spouse nets AFMC Key Spouse of the Year Award

    A Team Kirtland member was selected as the Air Force Materiel Command Key Spouse of the Year.Beth Moran, wife of Master Sgt. Andy Moran of the 377th Security Forces Squadron, was selected for her efforts with the Kirtland Key Spouse Program. She said she is honored to receive the award, but shares

  • New software assists with Next Generation of Advanced Aircraft

    New software is available to aid in providing acquisition support for Next Generation of Advanced Aircraft.The CREATE program (Computational Research and Engineering For Acquisition Tools and Environments), an initiative funded by the Office of Secretary of Defense High Performance

  • AFMC receives Gold Delegation Authority

    The Combat and Mission Support Program Executive Officer, or AFPEO/CM, recognized Air Force Materiel Command with Gold Delegation authority on services greater than $100 million to less than $1 billion. This came after the December 2013 signing of the Services Management Agreement between the two

  • DDR design poised to serve as open systems architecture pathfinder

    Mounted on an experimental aircraft known as the Proteus, the Air Force's Dismount Detection Radar pod underwent its first test flight above Mojave, Calif., recently."Not only were we able to test the system ahead of schedule, but within a couple of hours, we could see immediate results -- in real

  • Wingmen continue successful interventions across AFMC

    Across Air Force Materiel Command, Airmen continue to embrace the command's culture of respect and resiliency. This is especially evident in their behavior as wingmen."Accountability is at the core of the culture we emphasize, and it's at the core of the wingman concept," said Jennifer Treat, AFMC

  • TASS capability brought to Africa, improves security

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Force Protection Branch recently began installing a critical force protection system that safeguards forward-deployed warfighters in U.S. Africa Command's area of responsibility.In December 2013, AFLCMC received an urgent request from the 17th Air

  • NFL players, military children 'Play 60'

    As part of the Month of the Military Child celebration and NFL Play 60, past and present players from the New England Patriots as well as Patriots cheerleaders performed a free youth football and cheer clinic at the Hanscom tennis bubble here April 23, 2014. April was designated the Month of the

  • Airpower above water: Air Force tests new surveillance capability

    The Air Force successfully completed the first Maritime Modes program risk reduction flight April 14, 2014, as the service moves toward providing a new air-sea battle surveillance capability.The test flight, which took place in the airspace above the Navy's Point Mugu sea range in California,