AFMC Command News

  • 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

  • Airmen remember veterans on Valentine's Day

    A wave of blue flooded retirement and assisted living homes filled with veterans along Florida's Emerald Coast Feb. 14. In honor of all veteran service members and their spouses, more than 50 Airmen from Eglin AFB visited four facilities and hand-delivered Valentine's Day cards and yellow ribbons.

  • Air Force gears up for science, engineering review session

    As part of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate fellowship, Air Force Office of Scientific Research officials are preparing for the 2008 application review meeting, which will take place Feb. 15-17 in Arlington. National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate, or NDSEG, is a

  • New matting system to improve deployment capability

    Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate here, working with Webcore Technologies, Inc., located in Dayton, Ohio, have made significant advancements developing a super-strong, lightweight composite airfield matting that speeds-up forward aircraft

  • Edwards AFB wing commander dies

    The commander of the 95th Air Base Wing here died Feb. 5. Col. Bryan J. Gallagher was found unconscious at the Rosburg Fitness Center parking lot about 6:50 a.m. Base personnel started performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Emergency personnel responded to the scene and immediately transported

  • Air Force tests X-51 antennas

    Tests are under way at the Benefield Anechoic Facility here on the X-51 Scramjet-Waverider's antennas to ensure all of the X-51's antennas and communication systems are working properly. The 412th Test Wing Hypersonic Flight Test Team, Electronic Warfare Directorate and Boeing began month-long

  • Union rep strives to improve Voluntary Protection Program at Tinker AFB

    A union steward with American Federation of Government Employees Local 916, the primary negotiating body for civilian employees at Tinker AFB, is the first Air Force member selected to the National Voluntary Protection Programs Participants' Association. As a member of Voluntary Protection Programs

  • AFMC’s command chief to retire after 30 years of service

    Air Force Materiel Command's top enlisted member will close the book on his military career Feb. 1, exactly 30 years from the date he entered the Air Force delayed enlistment program. Chief Master Sergeant Jonathan Hake, AFMC's command chief, will say goodbye during a retirement ceremony that will