AFMC Command News

  • Defense forum highlights need for scientists, engineers

    The Air Force and the United States forecast a serious shortage of scientists and engineers. That assessment was made by Joe Sciabica, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, during a Regional Defense Forum here May 6. About 370 business and government leaders attended the event to

  • Workforce cuts drive shift in personnel services delivery

    Personnel Services Delivery and Program Budget Decision 720 are two key programs that continue to push significant transformation in the Air Force. One of the newest changes making its way here is a product of both the streamlined personnel processes and increased manpower cuts resulting from PSD

  • Hill environmental team earns DOD award

    A team of environmental specialists here has been named the best Environmental Quality Team in the Department of Defense. The 21-member group, part of the 75th Civil Engineer Group Environmental Division, includes biologists, an archaeologist, several engineers and other managers who oversee Hill

  • Hanscom unit applies 'gold standard' to contract

    When a joint team led by the Electronic Systems Center awarded the system development and demonstration contract for the Airborne and Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System this spring, the move triggered not a single protest. "It's one way we can tell we listened, learned, understood

  • E-mail spam on the rise, officials offer tips

    While theater goers are flocking to performances of Monty Python's musical comedy "Spamalot" as it tours across America, "a lot of spam" within e-mail inboxes is proving to be no laughing matter for Air Force and government employees. Spam is unsolicited and generally undesired bulk e-mail messages.

  • Leaning, transforming efforts at Tinker AFB paying off

    Leaning and transforming the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center here continues to reap benefits. Leaning and transforming is the second of five goals in the OC-ALC Strategic Plan designed to map the air logistics center's future successes. "Leaning and transforming the center is really transforming

  • AEDC begins testing fighter engine to use synthetic fuel

    Engineers at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) began testing April 29 a Pratt &Whitney F100 engine, the power plant for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon, with a blend of alternative synthetic fuel in the J-1 simulated altitude jet engine test cell. Once testing and evaluation is

  • Engineers save Air Force millions with F100 engine test plan

    Collaboration between the F100 engine program office at Tinker AFB, Okla., and test personnel at the Arnold Engineering Development Center along with engine manufacturer Pratt and Whitney has led to reduced test costs for component improvement verification testing at AEDC facilities. Cost savings of

  • Conference focuses on challenges facing acquisition workforce

    Air Force and industry leaders gathered here April 22-23 to chart a course to speed the development and delivery of a new crop of revolutionary weapon systems to joint warfighters. Nearly 500 government and industry professionals attended the Defense Acquisition University's DOD Acquisition Insight

  • AF, DOD leaders on tap for June Cyber Symposium

    The secretary of the Air Force and the vice chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will headline a list of high-level speakers scheduled to address the Air Force Cyberspace Symposium II set for June 17 to 19 at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center in Marlborough, Mass. Air Force Secretary

  • AFPC, AFMC temporarily collaborate to staff civilian vacancies

    The Air Force Personnel Center and Air Force Materiel Command are partnering to reduce the number of Air Force civilian personnel actions currently in the system. Four AFMC bases will temporarily assume responsibility for all AFMC civilian fill actions. The large civilian centers at Hill AFB, Utah,

  • Air Force leaders want you ... to speak your mind

    Since 1988 when the Air Force began its biennial Community Assessment Survey, Air Force civilians haven't had much of a voice. With this year's survey, which begins April 28, it appears Air Force Materiel Command civilians will have a say in all future installments. The 2006 survey included AFMC

  • Military personnel take on Boston Marathon

    This year, 21,963 runners from around the world completed the Boston Marathon April 21. Twenty-eight of those runners were military members from the various branches of service, Air Force Academy cadets and civilians who boarded a bus here at 6:15 a.m. to take part in the nation's oldest marathon.

  • SuperBot research may offer information benefits to Air Force

    The goal of making robots learn from the environment seems intuitively simple but, in fact, it requires rigid investigation and mathematical calculations. Potential benefits to the Air Force are why the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a study to improve SuperBot's prediction

  • General Hoffman to lead Air Force Materiel Command

    Department of Defense officials announced April 18 that Lt. Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, currently the military deputy in the office of the assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition at the Pentagon, will become the sixth commander of Air Force Materiel Command. President Bush has nominated General