AFMC Command News

  • T-38 crash claims life of Edwards' pilot

    An Air Force test pilot student died yesterday when his jet trainer crashed north of Edwards Air Force Base. Captain Mark P. Graziano, 30, died when the T-38A he was piloting crashed approximately nine miles north of Edwards AFB, near California City. Graziano was assigned to the USAF Test Pilot

  • Air Force funds new generation of energy efficient UAVs

    With the ever-increasing military demand to reduce the size and weight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while lengthening flight times, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a project to integrate solar power cheaply and easily into the base materials used to build them. Dr. Max

  • After market uniforms may present risk

    The Air Force authorized a single "all-season" version of the Airman's Battle Uniform, or ABU, for wear service-wide, making any other version or claims of a "summer weight uniform" unauthorized. The one exception is a 100 percent cotton ABU, which is only authorized for wear in the firefighter and

  • Tactical Satellite-3 operating smoothly following successful launch

    So far so good for Tactical Satellite-3's initial hours of its planned year-long mission. About 90 minutes after a successful liftoff Tuesday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport, NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., the TacSat-3 program team established communication with

  • Storyboards highlight AFSO21 projects

    Air Force Materiel Command will present four cases of process improvement at the Department of Defense's upcoming Continuous Process Improvement Symposium.Continuous Process Improvement is the term used throughout the military for what the Air Force calls AFSO21. AFSO21 promotes finding better and

  • Team successful at launching, placing tactical satellite in orbit

    The sky lit up briefly the evening of May 19 as an Air Force Minotaur I rocket launched the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite, NASA's PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA's CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments into a low earth orbit. The launch occurred at 7:55 p.m. EDT, 20

  • Edwards goes Hollywood

    Scenes from the upcoming movie "Ironman II" were filmed here May 11-13, with the support of about 60 members of Edwards Air Force Base taking part as extras and technical advisors. Parts of the first "Ironman" as well as other movies and television shows have also filmed at Edwards in the past. 

  • Hanscom VPP undergoes certification inspection

    Hanscom's journey towards certification as a Voluntary Protection Program site reached a long awaited milestone May 18, as a team of auditors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration arrived to begin the work of inspecting the base's program to determine if it has met the requirements

  • AFMC senior leader reflects on suicide close to home

    With a phone call on the night of Jan. 29, the You Matter suicide campaign at Robins suddenly became more personal to Maj. Gen. Polly Peyer. The commander of Warner Robins Air Logistics Center suspected something was wrong when the phone rang at 9 p.m. because most people who would be calling her

  • Air Force Safety chief focuses on safety programs

    The Air Force's Spring Spike campaign, which runs from March 1 through May 22, is nearing its end and already safety officials are concerned with the increasing number of fatalities due to automotive and motorcycle accidents. As of May 13, the Air Force has lost 13 Airmen during the Spring Spike

  • As Freedom's Call Tattoo grows, so, too, does its technology exhibit

    For some people, their favorite part of Air Force Materiel Command's Freedom's Call Tattoo are the impressive aircraft. For others, it's great music. Still, others go for the dazzling fireworks. And, then, there are people who like to see technology. Which is why, when they visit displays in the

  • Air Force Knowledge Now turns 10

    Randy Adkins, Knowledge Management Center of Excellence director, clearly recalls the Friday afternoon when the idea of Knowledge Now was first raised. Members of the AFMC staff discussed the possibility of a "lessons-learned" database and sent the idea to Mr. Adkins, who had been working on

  • AFMC airman selected for triathlon team

    While growing up in Minnesota, Mitch Kieffer played a lot of the same sports that attract young men; football, basketball and rugby. The one activity he didn't enjoy was running which, at first glance, is odd considering his recent selection to the 2009 Air Force's Triathlon Team. Now, for the