AFMC Command News

  • 3 Tinker organizations unite to accomplish engine feat

    Personnel from the 848th Supply Chain Management Group, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center Aerospace Sustainment Directorate and 76th Propulsion Maintenance Group achieved the seemingly impossible in just 21 months.They increased the number of go-ready reserve level F100-229 engines from two to 41.

  • AFMC’s Year of the CCAF initiative on track to meet goals

    In a mid-year update on Air Force Materiel Command's Year of the Community College of the Air Force, Chief Master Sgt. Eric Jaren, AFMC command chief, said the campaign is yielding positive results and on track to meet or even exceed its goals.Launched in January, YoCCAF aims to increase the number

  • Air Force celebrates JSF arrival, rolls out nation's airpower future

    An official unveiling of the F-35A Lightning II joint strike fighter was labeled an "historic occasion" by Air Force officials hosting the ceremony Aug. 26, 2011, at the 33rd Fighter Wing here."This is indeed a new era," said Gen. Edward Rice, Air Education and Training Command commander and host of

  • AFMC vice commander reflects on tenure, transition to new post

    Progress -- that's the legacy Air Force Materiel Command Vice Commander Lt. Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger hopes to leave behind as her tenure at Headquarters AFMC draws to a close this week."As I look back on this time frame, my hope is that I will be remembered not only for taking care of the command's

  • Teamwork leads to big Oklahoma City ALC win

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center recently won the highly regarded 2011 Robert T. Mason Depot Maintenance Excellence Award for its work on the KC-135 Stratotanker Programmed Depot Maintenance line. The Department of Defense award, named for Robert T. Mason, a former assistant deputy under the

  • ESC awards contract for lightened instrument landing system

    Officials at the Electronic Systems Center issued an $8.8 million contract award to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Network Systems Division, on Aug. 12, 2011, to provide the U.S. Air Force a deployable precision approach landing capability to support contingency operations or humanitarian missions

  • ESC radar program reaches major milestone

    The Electronic Systems Center's Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program, or MP-RTIP, sensor recently had its first flight on Global Hawk Block 40."This event marks a major milestone for the program after nearly 10 years of planning, development and initial testing," said Lt. Col. Michael

  • Communications upgrades keep warfighters connected

    The Theater Deployable Communications Team at the Electronic Systems Center is continuing to ensure warfighters have the key communications infrastructure they need while deployed."We are looking for capability modernization and to update the equipment modules that make up TDC as they get to

  • DOD names AFMC team recipient of maintenance excellence award

    Department of Defense officials announced Aug. 10, 2011, that the KC-135 Stratotanker Programmed Depot Maintenance Team at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the recipient of the 2011 Robert T. Mason Depot Maintenance Excellence Award.The awards are presented

  • EOD Airman receives Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with Valor

    After a 750-pound bomb exploded in a compound in war-torn Afghanistan, an Edwards Airman used his bare hands to dig through piles of rubble in a daring attempt to save the lives of two children who were trapped under debris.Members of Team Edwards gathered Aug. 3, 2011, to watch as Senior Airman

  • Simple "divert kit" makes big improvement to Global Hawk

    A simple solution to a difficult problem resulted in dramatically enhancing the ability of the RQ-4B Global Hawk to deploy anywhere in the world.Because this particular remotely piloted aircraft requires a specialized tow bar to be moved on the ground, it is pre-programmed with a list of airfields

  • Aerial refuelers coming to Robins

    Numerous organizations here have spent the past month preparing for the arrival of five KC-135 Stratotankers, which will temporarily be stationed at Robins during an upcoming exercise.The aerial refuelers are part of a detachment from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., set to operate here Aug. 7-20.