AFMC Command News

  • Air Force recognizes AFMC’s ground safety program

    Air Force safety officials announced Feb. 29 that Air Force Materiel Command won the 2007 Col. Will L. Tubbs Memorial Award for Ground Safety in Category I. The award recognizes the most effective Air Force major command, direct reporting unit or forward operating agency ground safety program.

  • Air Force plans retirement ceremony to commemorate F-117

    A retirement ceremony to honor the contributions of the F-117A Nighthawk, the world's first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology, will take place here March 11. The event will begin at 10 a.m. and will take place at Base Operations Hangar 206N. An F-117A from the 49th Fighter Wing at

  • Global Hawk achieves 10-year milestone at Edwards AFB

    When a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle landed here Feb. 28 after an eight-hour mission, it marked 10 years since base officials witnessed the first flight of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. On that first flight, the aircraft flew for one hour at an altitude of 32,000 feet. Today,

  • Tinker AFB performing intermediate maintenance on F101 engine

    One month after its arrival signaled a new workload for Tinker AFB, F101 engine intermediate-level maintenance repair is well under way. General Electric F101s, augmented turbofan engines, are the muscle behind the B-1 Lancer. The workload is a Repair Enterprise for the 21st Century Lean logistics

  • GPS lab at Robins AFB services troops worldwide

    Global positioning systems help troops around the world locate targets and one another. Maintaining GPS receivers is the unique mission of the Joint Service System Management Office here. Personnel assigned to the unit, also known as JSSMO, are responsible for the only operational GPS lab in the

  • Artificial spider silk research could improve body armor, parachutes

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is supporting a team from the University of Wyoming that is investigating spider silk proteins to create biomaterials for military purposes. Producing useful quantities of natural spider silk has proven unrealistic because of challenges inherent in

  • AFMC to implement training for sportbike riders

    Air Force Materiel Command safety officials are planning a command-wide training course for airmen under 27 who ride a sportbike. Officials say they expect the training to begin in July/August, with one coach for every six students. According to Juan Vazquez, AFMC traffic safety program manager, a

  • AEDC-tested Navy Standard Missile destroys errant satellite

    When Navy officials confirmed Feb. 20 that a Navy Standard Missile-3 fired from the deck of the USS Lake Erie in the Northern Pacific hit a falling and potentially dangerous defense intelligence satellite, some people here were particularly interested. "Seeing the missile in the news is almost like

  • Air Force contracting executive to lead new human performance wing

    Air Force officials announced Feb. 21 that Thomas S. Wells, a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, will lead the new 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson AFB. Mr. Wells comes to the new wing after serving as deputy director, then director, of contracting at Headquarters Air

  • Air Force modifies Joint STARS to fulfill warfighter request

    A straight line is the shortest distance between two points and the best way for communication to pass from one to the other, unless the earth's curvature prevents it. Then what's known as beyond-line-of-sight, or BLOS, communication capability becomes necessary. BLOS uses two straight lines, one

  • USAFE maintainers gain top-down view of transformation

    One of the top Air Force leaders involved in engineering a broad transformation in aircraft maintenance processes and organizational structures arrived here Feb. 19 to talk with senior leaders, wing commanders and maintainers in U. S. Air Forces Europe. "We're looking at the most fundamental

  • Depots would amaze warfighters, senior maintainer says

    When in 1979 Capt. Terry Gabreski was the officer in charge of a maintenance unit, she knew little about what the Air Force's air logistics centers did. "I wasn't very informed about the logistics center end of our business until I got to AFMC in 1995 - if I had known in my captain days what I know

  • $21 million software facility project under way at Robins AFB

    Work began immediately following a groundbreaking ceremony here Feb. 19 for a 70,000 square-foot software support facility targeted for occupation by January 2010. The new, $21 million facility will be a two-story building designed to help Robins AFB maintain its place as the Electronic Warfare

  • Bacteria research could protect Airmen from radiation

    An Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientist has identified manganese complexes in the bacterium Deinococcus radioduran that resists the damaging effects of radiation.The goal of the research is to investigate biomaterials that offer protection to Airmen from various environmental