AFMC Command News

  • Energy Awareness Month kicks off with Industry Days

    Energy awareness is emphasized each year during the month of October, and this year is no different. Civil Engineering, in conjunction with Operational Contracting, is gearing up for Industry Days Oct. 12 and 13. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day at the Hanscom Conference Center, utility providers,

  • ESC provides modern air traffic control system for Iraq

    The Electronic Systems Center completed work in September that improves and upgrades Iraq's air traffic control system.The completion of this foreign military sales effort involved the delivery of two new air traffic control tower systems along with state-of-the-art radar and ATC-tower simulators to

  • New tracking system helps cut gas cost

    Robins Air Force Base is testing a smarter data-tracking system, which if fully implemented, could help the base reach its energy reduction goals and save fuel.The Automotive Information Module 2, or AIM2, is an upgrade to the current way the military issues fuel and tracks fuel costs in government

  • Commentary: Changing the energy culture

    The absolute lifeblood of the modern military is energy. It allows us to be expeditionary and go anywhere on the globe. For true energy assurance as an Air Force, we need to be able to find energy solutions and strategies anywhere, even in hostile nations. At the most basic level, that assurance

  • UK lab awards highest scientific honor to Wright-Patt scientist

    Lt. Col. Laura Barnes, 711th Human Performance Wing, received the Special Commendation Medal from the United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory on Sept. 14, 2011.The award is one of the highest honors bestowed upon Ministry of Defence researchers and this was the first time it was

  • Five records fall at Air Force Marathon

    Along with a record field of runners, the 2011 Air Force Marathon saw a total of five course records bested on Sept. 17, 2011.Race officials credit the "phenomenal" weather as helping get the best efforts from runners. "We really had ideal conditions on race day," said Molly Louden, Air Force

  • Digital air traffic radios integrated into base's operations

    New air traffic radios take their first flight on Wright-Patterson's airfield in an effort to transition from analog to digital communications."With the increase in technology over the recent decades, we are at a point where we can implement to the standard that's needed for the military," said 1st

  • ESG looks to energy savings and standardization in the Air Force

    Enterprise Sourcing Group's Civil Engineering Commodity Council awarded their first LED taxiway lighting multiple-award last month -- the first contract awarded by the organization since their activation here on Oct 28, 2010. The two contract awards were made to ADB Airfield Solutions, Columbus,

  • Air Force Marathon sets attendance record for second year

    The 2011 U.S. Air Force Marathon broke a number of records this year -- first by selling out earlier than ever in June and then by lining up 13,000 runners at the starting line on the grounds of Wright State University and the National Museum of the United States Air Force here. This previous record

  • Results, not systems, targeted at annual Net-Centric Conference

    The ninth annual Net-Centric Operations conference held here Sept. 12, 2011, featured a robust group of speakers and panelists who focused on how to provide critical information more quickly, securely and cost-effectively.The conference was sponsored by the Patriots Roost Chapter of the Association

  • Wright-Patt takes a mid-tour look at status of CCAF initiative

    Secretaries of education, mentors and personnel from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's Education Office gathered at the base theater here Sept. 1 to review progress made to date during the Year of the Community College of the Air Force emphasis, which kicked off in January. Air Force Materiel

  • ESC awards contract to ensure warfighters can receive needed info

    The Electronic Systems Center recently awarded a contract to General Dynamics to ensure warfighters will continue receiving the data files, imagery and full motion video they are accustomed to."The Global Broadcast Service is a combination of direct TV and direct PC for the warfighter," said Mike