AFMC Command News

  • AFOSR Recognizes Talent in Three Top Young Researchers

    Although pursuing different focus areas of interest to the Air Force, three of this country's finest young researchers are each making a major impact on the frontiers of science and technology. Their work has also put them among an elite group of Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and

  • Predator passes 500,000 flight hours

    Airmen of the 432d Air Expeditionary Wing made history Feb. 18, when an aircrew flew the MQ-1B Predator Unmanned Aircraft Systems in a combat mission in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility surpassing the 500,000 flight hour mark. Members of the 15th Reconnaissance Squadron flew the

  • Rapid acquisition, training team help secure Iraqi elections

    An Electronic Systems Center rapid acquisition project helped ensure recent Iraqi elections were conducted peaceably. ESC provided 600 all-weather, fully stabilized metal detectors that were used at polling venues across the nation. The center also provided three members of a four-person team that

  • First time for AFMC at Red Flag

    The 416th Flight Test Squadron "Skulls" conquered the vast bombing and gunnery ranges of Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., as they participated in Red Flag 09-2, marking the first time an Air Force Materiel Command unit has ever deployed and participated in the exercise. "Red Flag allowed us to provide

  • AFOSR-funded research expected to improve fiber optics and computing

    An internationally celebrated physicist and AFOSR-, National Science Foundation-, NASA-funded researcher has overseen work leading to the first successful manipulation of coherent optical information. Dr. Lene Hau, has discovered applications through her work with light and matter that will impact

  • Airborne networking team works to meet challenges

    Mention of an airborne network conveys the sense of one monolithic entity, and someday, if all goes well, that is what it will be. Right now, however, "we have a lot of disparate networks," Mike Therrien, Airborne Networking division chief, told the Hanscom Representatives Association members at

  • ASC program keeps heavy-lifters in the air for decades

    When the first C-5M Super Galaxy touched down at Dover AFB, Del., on Feb. 9, it signaled the first success of a $7.7 billion acquisition program designed to keep the heavy-lift transport in the air until 2040. Perhaps still young compared to other aircraft in the fleet, the C-5 has been hauling the

  • Reserve unit at Tinker performs vital mission for aircraft maintenance

    The 10th Flight Test Squadron is a unique squadron within its own right. Home to roughly 35 reserve Airmen and situated on the flight-line, separate from most other Tinker Air Force Base units, the 10th FLTS flies four different types of aircraft after they have undergone programmed depot

  • Test Tanker II visits Wright-Patt

    Aeronautical Systems Center program officials got a first-hand look at the capabilities of a very unique KC-135R Stratotanker here Feb. 6. The Test Tanker II, is a modified KC-135 tanker aircraft, built in 1963. Now part of the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the aircraft is used

  • Air Force standardizes training for nuke inspectors

    Inspectors throughout the Air Force attended the first Nuclear Surety Inspector's Course from Feb. 2 to 6 at the Air Force Inspection Agency, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. As the Air Force reinvigorates its nuclear program, the implementation of this class was a top priority. The objective of the

  • Deadline approaching for Air University's online master's program

    If you've been toying with the idea of getting your master's degree, time is running out on one of the best deals around and it is virtually free. The Air Command and Staff College is offering a Distance Learning Master's Program in Military Operational Art and Science for a select number of

  • ESC group delivers operational comm need on-time, on cost

    The 751st Electronic Systems Group here has now completed an effort to provide operators at workstations on board the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System the ability to chat, e-mail and browse the Defense Department's secure Secret Internet Protocol Router Network from any location. The