AFMC Command News

  • Two brothers from Dayton taught the world to fly

    Aviation enthusiasts, Air Force officials and local government leaders gathered here Dec. 17 to remember how two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, changed the world.The brief ceremony, held adjacent to the Wright Brothers Memorial on base, recognized the 106th anniversary of the first powered flight at

  • Robins home to Southeast's first-of-its-kind solar technology

    Robins has consistently been a leader in testing alternative power technologies, but perhaps no other effort has been as visible to the general base populace then a recently installed solar panel.The gleaming panel, about the size of a drive-in movie screen, incorporates state-of-the-art technology

  • Joint STARS teams with AMARG to improve combat ID

    Members of an Electronic Systems Center team are using an aircraft identified for parts reclamation, or re-use, to reduce cost, save time and minimize risk. In 2008, the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System program office at the Electronic Systems Center received congressional funding to

  • ESC team looks at progress of net-centric path finders

    Electronic Systems Center officials got a better look at a half dozen promising technologies during a two-day, collaborative event Dec. 9 and 10.During the sessions, 653rd Electronic Systems Wing Enterprise Integration Division members and representatives from companies sponsoring the technologies

  • AFMC Freedom's Call Tattoo 2010 scheduled for June 25

    'Tis the season for most people to host or attend holiday parties; but, for officials, here, 'tis the season to be in the midst of planning for one of southwest Ohio's largest summer celebrations.The Air Force Materiel Command Freedom's Call Tattoo is Friday, June 25, 2010. Officials expect another

  • Environmental stewardship driving force behind new, unique parking lot

    Parking lots don't have to be vast expanses of water-shedding, heat-reflecting pavement. A new 22-vehicle parking lot at Robins AFB, Ga., incorporates two environmentally friendly concepts intended to reduce water runoff and protect waterways from the drain-off that can come from standard parking

  • C-27J JCA team shows off new training operations center

    A new cargo plane with short landing and takeoff capability promises to save the lives of warfighters by reducing the need for ground convoys in dangerous areas, and the pilots who will fly it will be trained here. On Wednesday, Dec. 9, officials from a broad coalition that includes Air Force, Army,

  • New AFMC Command Chief named

    Air Force officials have announced that Chief Master Sergeant Eric R. Jaren will become the new command chief of Air Force Materiel Command.Chief Jaren comes to Headquarters AFMC from Edwards AFB, Calif., where he has served as the command chief for the Air Force Flight Test Center and 95th Air Base

  • New Deputy Director Announced for National Museum of the USAF

    Air Force officials announced Dec. 10 that Lt. Gen. (retired) John L. Hudson will become the new Deputy Director of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The position of Deputy Director is newly established, and Gen. Hudson is the

  • X-51A WaveRider gets first ride aboard B-52

    In a flight test reminiscent of the early days of the historic X-15 program 50 years earlier, the X-51A Waverider was carried aloft for the first time over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 9 by an Air Force Flight Test Center B-52H Stratofortress.The "captive carry" test was a key

  • Building on Bold Quest, airborne network moves forward

    A team from the Electronic Systems Center here is now building on some encouraging airborne networking results achieved during Bold Quest '09, the Joint Forces Command-led exercise conducted in November.Despite some issues that took the main test aircraft off line, officials from the 653rd

  • Robins helps with vital flightline air conditioner fix

    A Robins team is working to resolve a top equipment issue for warfighters in Iraq and Afghanistan. About a dozen people in the 642nd Combat Sustainment Group are involved with developing specifications for a redesign of flightline air conditioners that are critical to the operation of aircraft in

  • Senate confirms new AFMC vice commander

    The Senate on Friday Dec. 4 confirmed Maj. Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment to the position of Air Force Materiel Command vice commander. General Wolfenbarger was previously the Director of Intelligence and Requirements at Headquarters AFMC,