AFMC Command News

  • Centralized Asset Management streamlines sustainment funding requirements

    It costs the Air Force more than $12 billion a year to sustain and maintain its fleets. Air Force Materiel Command is making sure that money is spent where it does the most good. AFMC now operates a new, Centralized Asset Management system that has consolidated and streamlined cumbersome budgeting

  • Expeditionary Combat Support System improves logistics support

    "But I don't want it next week! I want it yesterday!!!" Those who have experienced this scenario can sympathize with the Air Force mechanic who's trying to fix an aircraft "yesterday"--so it can be returned to combat--but can't get parts that fast. On the other hand, it's surprising at how close the

  • Streamlining efforts improve supply chain management

    Supply chain management: a boring subject? Before deciding, consider that without repair parts tanks don't run, boats don't sail and planes don't fly ... and no one secures a country or wins a war. Plans, training, tactics, dedication, readiness and heroism all have a place. But it's hard to be

  • DLA-Warner Robins shop humming along following transition

    At a glance, you can't differentiate between Defense Logistics Agency employees and Air Force civilians in the F-15 Eagle wing shop here. Yet work continues to run smoothly following the mid-October activation of DLA-Warner Robins here in which DLA gained 240 employees from the Air Force. The new

  • Brave Defender: Ground combat training goes to dogs

    The 96th Ground Combat Training Squadron's premier training course, Brave Defender, has taken its curriculum to the dogs. Five military working dog teams from Lackland AFB, Texas; Robins AFB, Ga.; Hill AFB, Utah; Maxwell AFB, Ala.; and Tinker AFB, Okla., have joined ranks with the combat training

  • Lieutenant finds Ironman success in Aloha state

    With blood pumping from every peddle, stroke and step, an Airman from the 95th Aerospace Medicine Squadron found herself victorious among competitors representing the other services during a world championship event. First Lt. Lisa Newman-Wise competed as a member of a four-person team representing

  • General Bedke assumes command of Air Force Research Laboratory

    The Air Force Research Laboratory welcomed a new commander Oct. 22 in a change-of-command ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Modern Flight Gallery. Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke assumed command of AFRL from the departing Maj. Gen. Ted F. Bowlds, who had been commander since January

  • Researchers create family of composite materials

    Scientists funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have constructed an entirely new class of materials that potentially could aid Air Force missions. Dr. David Avnir, Head of the Institute of Chemistry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, led scientists to a surprising

  • Commander foresees Air Force mastery of cyberspace

    Information technology is a two-edged sword the Air Force must wield more expertly than the nation's enemies, said the commander of Air Force Materiel Command during an Oct. 25 speech at the InfoTech Conference in Dayton, Ohio. Gen. Bruce Carlson discussed today's fight against terrorism, including

  • Bomber rescue: AFMC helps return damaged B-1B to friendly environment

    When a $283-million aircraft that's a segment of America's long-range bomber force loses one of its four engines - over the skies of Afghanistan - Airmen kick their fix-it instincts into high gear. Thanks to a unified effort led by Air Force Materiel Command, a maintenance team repaired a damaged

  • TF33 jet engine shop up and running at Tinker AFB

    The Air Force's lone TF33 Jet Engine Intermediate Maintenance shop here achieved full operational capability status in mid-October. During a ribbon cutting ceremony, Brig. Gen. Judy Fedder, 76th Maintenance Wing commander, said "this marks a shift of engine workload from field units to the Oklahoma

  • Tinker unit designs new welding process for B-2

    When the B-2 Systems Support Manager at Tinker AFB needed three spar caps refurbished for a spare right aft deck kit, he uncovered a larger problem. The aft deck panels on the stealth bomber were not originally designed to be replaced, so there were only a couple of spare right aft deck kits

  • Leadership encourages Red Ribbon Week participation

    Air Force Materiel Command senior officials want to remind the command's work force that in order to provide the warfighter with the best support, workers need to remain drug free. In order to raise awareness of AFMC's commitment to a drug-free community, AFMC's senior leaders encourage commanders

  • Leaders unveil new partnership for weapon-systems acquisition

    Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command and acquisition professionals at the Pentagon have formed a new partnership to overcome weapon-system acquisition challenges, according to senior Air Force leaders. Sue Payton, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and Gen. Bruce Carlson, AFMC

  • Air Force cleans up 30-year-old crash

    An Air Force recovery team scaled a mountain peak just shy of 9,000 feet on the Utah-Nevada border in mid-October to recover pieces of an F-4 Phantom . The aircraft crashed into the Deep Creek Mountains on the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Indian Reservation nearly 30 years ago. The crash