AFMC Command News

  • Aaron Tippin: Country music star at home with Air Force

    A friendship that's been in the making for nearly 20 years will continue on June 26 when country music superstar Aaron Tippin and his band, the Stemwinders, play an hour-long concert at the fifth annual Air Force Materiel Command Freedom's Call Tattoo. The event is free and open to the public, and

  • ESC completes key flight milestone for advanced radar system

    Equipping warfighters with the technology to detect moving targets in combat gained momentum when the Electronic Systems Center, in concert with prime contractors and other organizations, recently completed a key flight milestone for the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program. "At this

  • AFMC system key to Air Force cyber superiority goal

    The Combat Information Transport System, known as CITS, is a high-priority item for the U.S. Air Force, which seeks to create, manage and defend a truly enterprise-wide internet. CITS, which will enable all of that and more, is so important that the Electronic Systems Center listed it number two out

  • Hanscom shines during VPP inspection

    After four days of thorough inspection, an audit team from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that Hanscom's Voluntary Protection Program has met and in many cases exceeded the requirements to earn its certification as a VPP Star certified site. "The overall evaluation of

  • AFMC base first to use new gate guards uniforms

    Civilian guards at Eglin Air Force base are the first to meet new uniform standards set by the Department of the Air Force Security Forces Center."Eglin is unique in this Air Force-wide initiative because we are the benchmark base," said Lt. Roger Main, DAF Security Forces. In the past, Department

  • 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