AFMC Command News

  • Satellite's instrumentation providing scintillation forecast data

    Whether it's static interrupting a radio station, or crackling noises interfering with a theater commander's attempt to contact a deployed unit, scintillation can cause communication chaos. Scintillation occasionally occurs when radio waves transiting an unstable ionosphere located 50 to 360 miles

  • Research into spinning electrons could enhance AF computers

    Scientists funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have used a single photon technique to observe the evolution of individual electron spins in semiconductor nanostructures. Their work has already contributed to the new field of semiconductor spintronics - an emerging technology which

  • AFMC NCO one of 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year

    A noncommissioned officer from Air Force Materiel Command is one of the Air Force's top enlisted members. Air Force officials selected Tech. Sgt. Tammy Shaw as one of the service's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year for 2008. Sergeant Shaw is assigned to the 88th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron

  • Air Force aids in search for missing Alzheimer's patient

    When efforts to locate an 83-year-old man with Alzheimer's who went missing from the Crystal Bay Senior Living community in Sandestin, Fla., July 3 carried into a second day, a call from the Walton County Sheriff's Department went out to Eglin AFB for 40 volunteers to help in the search. Nearly

  • Acting secretary shares his perspective with Airmen

    The U.S. Air Force core values of integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do will remain in place, said Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley during a July 1 visit here. Mr. Donley carried this message to Airmen at Peterson AFB and also at Offutt AFB, Neb.,

  • Record-breaking crowd attends Freedom's Call Tattoo

    What made Air Force Materiel Command's fourth annual Freedom's Call Tattoo on June 27 so successful that it shattered its previous record of 60,000 in attendance? The list for what drew more than 75,000 people to this "thank you" event for the local community is long and distinguished: legendary

  • Air Force striving to enhance communications networks

    Through a joint effort two years in the making, the Air Force, Army and Navy are funding a Finnish research program that explores new approaches for improving telecommunications network management. The ultimate goal is to build on this basic research and create a cognitive network that will use

  • Air Force closing logistics support unit

    Big changes are in store for the 654th Combat Logistics Support Squadron and its members. Air Force officials will inactivate the squadron July 2. Most squadron members will transfer to other Tinker AFB units or other Air Force bases, or they will retire. The 25 remaining members will regroup under

  • Speakers discuss aging aircraft at summit

    Air Force and civilian industry leaders spoke about convergence between industry and aerospace at the seventh annual Aerospace Summit and Expo June 23 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Maj. Gen. Loren M. Reno, the commander of the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center here, did not mince words when talking about

  • Air Force, Boeing upgrade two C-130 cockpits

    The 418th Flight Test Squadron, together with the Boeing Company, currently are conducting communication, navigation, radar and air data testing on two C-130 Hercules aircraft here as part of the Avionics Modernization Program, or AMP. The AMP upgrade includes replacement of the aircraft's 1960s-era

  • Former ESC commander receives Order of the Sword

    The noncommissioned officers of Air Force Materiel Command inducted retired Lt. Gen. Charles L. Johnson II, former Electronic Systems Center commander, into the AFMC Order of the Sword during a June 20 ceremony here. During the ceremony, General Johnson praised the enlisted corps for the

  • Air Force augments primary care service at Wright-Patterson AFB

    Air Force officials are responding to a shortage of primary care providers at Wright-Patterson Medical Center here. The Air Force is providing manning and contracting assistance to the 88th Medical Group to help resolve temporary Family Practice Clinic staffing problems caused by vacancies and

  • Defense Logistics Agency assumes procurement mission at Tinker AFB

    Sixty-two Air Force employees will officially become part of the Defense Logistics Agency June 22. An activation ceremony marking the transfer took place at the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center here June 18. The employees, mostly contracting officers from the Depot Level Reparable Support Branch,

  • Air Force General Counsel honors ethics program office

    Air Force Materiel Command's Ethics Program Office received the Air Force General Counsel's Excellence in Ethics Program Award for 2007 during a presentation ceremony June 11 at the General Counsel's Acquisition Conference in Dayton, Ohio. Mary Walker, Air Force General Counsel, presented the award