AFMC Command News

  • Command headquarters takes part in mentoring at-risk kids

    Students at Dayton's Meadowdale PreK-8 School might never have dreamed of experiencing the Air Force or meeting a general officer. However, many students did just that thanks to a base group's March 24 job shadow event. Airmen Acting, an organization established in January of this year by Senior

  • Base security forces train for the worst

    With the simple two word instruction of "On Me," Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Jones, 88th Security Forces Squadron, went from being a searcher to point man, and three other members making up the diamond formation snapped left, each encountering new roles and responsibilities within the team structure. This

  • Flight tests set course for improved airborne communication

    A series of early March flight tests has validated a two-and-a-half year effort and set the course for significantly enhanced airborne communications capability.A team of specialists from the Electronic Systems Center, MITRE Corporation and MIT Lincoln Laboratory used a 707 test bed aircraft to

  • Air Force officials take step toward cleaner fuel, energy independence

    Air Force officials, embracing the national priorities of cleaner fuel and energy independence, took a step toward a greener, energy independent future when an A-10C Thunderbolt II here took to the air March 25 fueled with a blend of Hydrotreated Renewable Jet, or HRJ, and JP-8.This first-ever

  • Global Hawk wet runway testing yields positive results

    At the crack of dawn, a force of Airmen, civilians and contractors work in choreographed precision to conduct a test which will only last one minute. That's what it takes to conduct a wet runway test for the new RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk here. The 452nd Flight Test Squadron has been conducting its

  • Air Force Personnel Center stands up operating locations

    Beginning April 1, the Air Force Personnel Center is establishing operating locations to provide reach-back capability and on-site personnel specialists for the Air Force Materiel Command and the Air Force District of Washington Large Civilian Centers. The transition to AFPC operating locations

  • Eglin Energy Challenge champions announced

    Members of the 308th Armament Systems Wing in building 349 captured first place in the Team Eglin Energy Challenge by reducing their energy usage by 6.6 percent over a one-month period."We are not going to stop," said Randy Brown, 308th Armament Systems Wing director. "Every kilowatt saved is

  • ESC garners two top Air Force acquisition awards

    An Electronic Systems Center group commander and a key program team within his group both received Air Force Acquisition and Transformation Leadership Awards March 10.The awards, to Col. Cordell DeLaPena, commander of the 653rd Electronic Systems Group, and to the Battlefield Airborne Communications

  • Wright-Patt Reserve unit to receive C-17s

    The Air Force Reserve Command announced today it will replace ten C-5  Galaxy aircraft with eight C-17s at the 445th Airlift Wing here.The decision, approved by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force fulfills the plan for retirement of the 445th Airlift Wing's aging C-5A aircraft and

  • Cyber Control System launch under way this week

    Electronic Systems Center program managers are in Virginia this week for a contract kick-off meeting on Increment One of the Cyber Control System, after awarding the critical $8.9 million contract to Electronic Data Systems, a Hewlett Packard company,  two weeks ago.CCS Increment-1 will enable

  • Trip to war region heightens AFMC commander's resolve

    The commander of Air Force Materiel Command returned recently from a trip to Iraq and other sites in the region with an amped-up sense of responsibility to deployed Airmen who depend on his command for the supplies, parts and maintenance to get their jobs done.General Donald Hoffman had a simple

  • WPAFB facilities make their mark with electrical signatures

    A signature is your own mark. It serves to identify who you are. A facility electrical signature works in the very same way. It's the electrical usage of a facility over a time span that can be measured by minutes, hours, days, weeks and even longer. Such signatures can help save the base energy, in

  • AFMC leader visits Tinker, highlights civilian issues

    Air Force Materiel Command Executive Director Dr. Steven Butler called upon civilians to broaden their career paths, an effort that takes on added significance as a changing Air Force turns to more civilian leadership, during a visit here that began Feb. 22. During the visit, Dr. Butler had