AFMC Command News

  • Back from the war: AFMC commander refines support priorities

    When asked if he returned home with a to-do list after visiting select Pacific Air Forces bases and Afghanistan, Gen. Donald Hoffman thumbed through a quarter-inch stack of papers before citing several examples during a March 25, 2011, interview."The purpose of this trip was not to solve

  • Air Force leaders issue sexual assault prevention, response message

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Roy issued the following message to the men and women of the United States Air Force:We must commit to eliminating sexual assault from our Air Force.Air Force leaders

  • New baler reduces cost, time to improve AEDC's recycling capability

    The Mission Support Division here acquired a new major asset last summer -- a state-of-the-art baler that will process approximately 2,000 pounds of recyclable materials, including paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and aluminum cans, every 20 minutes.Robbie Evans, the base services lead at Arnold's

  • F-22 completes synthetic biofuel flight test

    An F-22 Raptor completed a test flight March 18, 2011, on a 50/50 fuel blend of conventional petroleum-based JP-8 and a hydrotreated renewable jet fuel, HRJ. This flight test marked the first time this type of biofuel has been used in a fifth-generation fighter like the F-22.The flight was the

  • Test report: AFNet effective, suitable, mission-capable

    The effort to manage Air Force web and e-mail operations as one, consolidated enterprise took a giant step forward March 18, 2011, with release of a testing report on Air Force Intranet Increment 1, referred to as AFNet Inc 1. The Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center's Operational

  • Senior leaders thank KC-46A source selection team

    Department of Defense and Air Force senior leaders flew here from Washington March 21, 2011, to congratulate the team responsible for the source selection of the Air Force's top acquisition priority: the KC-46A tanker. Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley; Undersecretary of Defense for

  • F-22 Raptor flown on synthetic biofuel

    An F-22 Raptor successfully flew at supercruise March 18, 2011, on a 50/50 fuel blend of conventional petroleum-based JP-8 and biofuel derived from camelina, a weed-like plant not used for food.The flight was the capstone of a series of ground and flight test events conducted by the 411th Flight

  • Marine squadron's F-16 flights reach 'milestone' toward JSF

    Marine aviators of the F-35B Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501 completed four sorties in F-16 Fighting Falcons March 18, 2011, beginning a familiarization process to ensure readiness and efficiency in the transition to the Department of Defense's fifth generation fighter."It's a tremendous

  • 402nd mechanics prepare damaged aircraft for final flight to 'boneyard'

    Aircraft mechanics here work hard every day with the single goal of returning safe and reliable aircraft to the warfighter as quickly as possible. Recently, however, some C-5 mechanics have been working with a uniquely different purpose. They have been making modifications on a C-5 to allow the

  • Eagle Vision imagery supporting Japan recovery efforts

    The Electronic Systems Center-managed Eagle Vision imagery collection team here rushed to action within hours of the devastating 9.0 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck Northeast Japan March 11, 2011.Shortly after 7 a.m. Eastern Time on March 11, the Eagle Vision team began

  • Modified X-51A Waverider ready for next hypersonic test

    Air Force engineers currently plan to fly the second X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test demonstrator as early as March 22, program officials said March 15, 2011."We are proud of the first flight results, and at the same time we understand the inherent risk in a high-technology demonstrator like

  • AFMC senior leaders travel in theater to gather warfighter feedback

    First Lt. Steven Massara, of the 703rd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, briefs Gen. Donald Hoffman, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, and Maj. Gen. Andrew Busch, Ogden Air Logistics Center commander, on the repair of the troop door fairing on the C-17 Globemaster during a visit here March 7,

  • C-130 training simulator makes its move to base

    Now that the nearly 700,000-square-foot complex that will house the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing and their USAF School of Aerospace Medicine has been completed here, equipment is being moved in -- including the first of two Lockheed C-130 trainers that will be used by

  • Commentary: Doing the Basics ...

    Can you imagine getting up to go to work today and forgetting to put on your socks? It would make you uncomfortable, you might get a blister, and you would be out of uniform. The reason we put our socks on is that it is a basic thing we do to complete our uniform and keep ourselves healthy and safe