AFMC Command News

  • AFMC Force Development Newsletter available online

    The Air Force Materiel Command Force Development Newsletter is now available online for Air Force military and civilian members seeking to learn about a variety of career development programs and training offered Air Force-wide. Each month the newsletter highlights different force development topics

  • AFMC wins Marathon MAJCOM Challenge

    Air Force Materiel Command was announced the winner of the 2011 Air Force Marathon MAJCOM Challenge in early November at CORONA Fall. This was the fifth year for the challenge, which uses a point system to evaluate both participation and performance from each major command. Air Force Chief of Staff

  • Antenna can help speed communications

    Recent flight tests conducted by a combined team from the Electronic Systems Center, the Space and Missile Systems Center, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and MITRE Corp. have shown that the low-profile Advanced Multi-band Communications Antenna, installed on a wide-body aircraft, can effectively support

  • Tinker team accepts accolade for best DOD depot program

    Senior leaders and employee representatives from Tinker have long maintained that they have the best workforce in the Department of Defense, and now they have the hardware to prove it. A 27-person Tinker delegation -- comprised of senior leadership, suppliers, maintainers, planners, engineers and

  • C-17 flight takes on-the-job training to the skies

    Senior Airmen Ginnette Lykins (left) and Elyse Detling, both medical technicians assigned to the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron here, listen intently as they receive instructions after securing a simulated patient to a litter during a training flight on board a C-17 Globemaster III Nov. 17,

  • AEDC's largest aircraft model ready for future testing

    An ongoing store separation test on "smart weapons" from the bomb bay of a new 10-percent scale B-52H model in the 16-foot transonic propulsion wind tunnel here rightly has the attention of test engineers.Prior to the test, all eyes were on AEDC designers, schedulers and machinists as they

  • Tinker vehicle office exploring ways to 'turn over green leaf'

    A battery-powered vehicle to transport people and parts needed throughout Tinker Air Force Base would improve the air quality and reduce fuel consumption, the vehicle control lead for the 76th Maintenance Support Group's Vehicle Control Office said recently.David Davenport made that observation

  • Enterprise Sourcing Group holds successful Dialogue with Industry conference

    The Enterprise Sourcing Group conducted its inaugural Dialogue with Industry conference at the Hope Hotel and Conference Center here on Oct. 25 and 26. The conference drew more than 500 attendees from industry and government. "We were able to exceed all of our expectations for this inaugural event

  • Commentary: Take advantage of education and tuition assistance

    Since I've returned from my recent deployment, I have read many articles in the Hansconian about Air Force Materiel Command's Year of the Community College of the Air Force initiative launched in January 2011. The advertisement is there and we are on track, yet it never ceases to amaze me that not

  • AFMC restructures to cut overhead, make command more efficient

    Providing greater military capabilities, improving readiness and operating effectively in the current fiscal environment is the purpose of an Air Force Materiel Command-wide restructure announced by Air Force officials Nov. 2, 2011. AFMC will reduce the number of its centers from 12 to five. This

  • Hanscom hosting Forge.mil Testing Services pilots

    An innovative, interactive online testing capability is receiving a needed boost with a pilot effort hosted by the Electronic Systems Center here.The Testing Services component of the Defense Department's common software development environment, Forge.mil, has been championed and developed by ESC

  • Air Force phases out Battle Dress Uniforms

    Effective Nov. 1, 2011, approximately 19,500 active-duty personnel in Air Force Materiel Command will have two uniform options to wear at work: the Airman Battle Uniform or blues.The Air Force has officially phased out the woodland camouflage-patterned Battle Dress Uniforms. Other items phased out

  • Air Force modernization takes B-2 to North Pole

    Taking off from Edwards Oct. 27, the B-2 Spirit travelled to the top of the world and back again on a mission to test the aircraft's hardware and software upgrades, endurance and performance at extremely high latitudes. The 18-plus hour mission to the North Pole and back consisted of developmental

  • Air Force team transports wounded Libyan fighters to U.S.

    Nearly two dozen wounded Libyan fighters were evacuated from the the revolutionary battlefields of Libya to the birthplace of the American Revolution, Oct. 29, 2011, aboard an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III. At the request of the Department of State, the Secretary of Defense directed two missions