AFMC Command News

  • AFMC team works to improve communication between new fighters, bomber

    An airborne networking team here is working to connect low-observables aircraft such as the F-22, F-35 and B-2 with each other, and with the rest of the force. These aircraft rely on a number of technological advantages to defeat adversaries and accomplish their missions. Not the least of those

  • Air Force looks at bigger role for small business

    The Air Force is looking to support small businesses in a big way, two top service officials said during a visit here April 2. David Van Buren, principal deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and Ronald Poussard, director of Air Force Small Business Programs, said during a

  • AFRL begins VPP journey

    Building on an already strong culture of safety, the Air Force Research Laboratory began the process this week to incorporate the Voluntary Protection Program into all levels of the organization. Since its inception by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in the early 1980s, VPP has

  • Aaron Tippin in concert: A Freedom's Call Tattoo 2009 must-see

    If you missed country music superstar Aaron Tippin's performance on March 28, you won't want to make the same mistake on June 26, when he plays at the Air Force Materiel Command's Freedom's Call Tattoo, on the grounds adjacent to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air

  • AFMC prepares to honor the top enlisted of 2008

    In the midst of a slowing economy, overseas contingency operations and fast-paced tempo of the military, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) will take time to recognize its top enlisted Airmen in the command's 2009 Annual Enlisted Awards Banquet. Every year since the formation of AFMC in 1992, the

  • C-17s invade Edwards sky

    The Global Reach Combined Test Force concluded a colossal mission of performing a formation test with six C-17 Globemaster IIIs March 14 and 17. As the newest, most flexible cargo aircraft to enter the airlift fleet, the C-17 is capable of rapid strategic delivery of troops and cargo to main

  • Launch date established for Tactical Satellite-3

    Let the countdown begin. Lift off for Tactical Satellite-3 has been scheduled for May 5, 2009, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Wallops Island Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va. The program recently encountered challenges with some of the spacecraft's components, but the

  • Electronic Systems Center intel system gains warfighting role

    Whether fighting the flames of California wildfires or detecting floating threats off coasts, officials from the 950th Electronic System Group's key imagery collection system are transitioning victories from homeland defense into capabilities for warfighter use around the world. "We certainly love

  • Conference to bring together senior Air Force, Army acquisition leaders

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, the Honorable Sue Payton, will be keynote speakers at the second annual Defense Department Acquisition Insight Days conference. The event will take place at the David H. Ponitz Sinclair Center

  • Deployed band members promote troop morale, diplomacy and community outreach

    Members from the Air Force Band of Flight here welcomed some of their own back to the states March 7 as members returned from a 60-day deployment to central and southwest Asia. Deployed Airmen arrived at Dayton International Airport and were greeted by a reception of family and friends. Band

  • Virtual weapons provide real training for security forces

    Security Forces personnel here are aiming to use "virtual bullets" to help Airmen hit the target on the first shot.The "bullets" are actually beams of light fired from a weapon that is identical in almost every way to those used in the field. The weapons - rifles, pistols or light machine guns --

  • AFMC commander praises Hanscom Center's team

    Saying that the equipment the Electronic Systems Center delivers to war fighters forms "the sinews of our entire military operation," the commander of Air Force Materiel Command lauded the center and all members of Team Hanscom during his two-day visit to the base March 10 and 11. "I applaud the

  • AFOSR-funded researchers work to improve GPS technology

    An Ohio State University research team has developed very efficient approaches vital to the success of global navigation satellite systems. Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientist, Dr. Inder J. Gupta, led the team and conducted both the theoretical and practical work that has