AFMC Command News

  • Tuberculosis scare ends for Robins employees

    The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cleared three Robins workers to return to duty following an investigation into their exposure to a potentially infectious strain of tuberculosis, according to the Robins Public Health Office. The workers were passengers on at least one

  • Security forces unit mentors youths to minimize poor behavior

    For some students out of school on summer break, boredom can turn into mischief; mischief into crime; and crime into prosecution. That's a cycle Airmen from the 96th Security Forces Squadron investigations team here want to break by mentoring local students before boredom gets them into

  • FOX morning program to broadcast live June 8 from AFMC

    Making its third Air Force stop on its Salute to the Troops Tour, the FOX News Network's "FOX and Friends" morning program will broadcast live, here, from 7 to 9 a.m. on June 8. Co-anchor Brian Kilmeade will be on location telecasting reports to his co-anchors in New York, as well as to a worldwide

  • Air Force Secretary signs memorandum to improve F100, F110 turbine engines

    Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne signed a memorandum of agreement between the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Air Force Materiel Command here May 22, formalizing the collaboration between DARPA and the Air Force to transition the Engine Systems Prognosis into the legacy fleet

  • AFMC members, unit receive small business awards

    Two civilians and one unit from Air Force Materiel Command garnered 2006 Secretary of the Air Force Small Business Awards. Under secretary of the Air Force Dr. Ronald M. Sega presented the awards in a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The Secretary of the Air Force Special Achievement Award at the

  • Air Force forecasters gear up for hurricane season

    The National Hurricane Center is predicting the Atlantic hurricane season to have a 75 percent chance of being an "above average" season. NHC forecasters predict the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season will have 13 to 17 named storms. Hurricane season officially began June 1 and continues through Nov.

  • Environmental center gets new name, added responsibilities

    The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, with headquarters here, has been renamed the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, Air Force officials announced May 31. The agency's acronym, AFCEE, will remain the same. Its new designation "more accurately reflects the

  • Air Force Academy cadets benefit from AFOSR funding

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research is currently funding a research program at the U.S. Air Force Academy which allows cadets to design and build a satellite and, post-launch, continue to operate it from the academy's satellite ground station. The most recent satellite created by cadets is

  • General Reno takes command of Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center

    Maj. Gen. Loren M. Reno said his five main focus areas as the newly named Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center commander are: supporting the warfighter, stewardship, suppliers, safety and quality, and teamwork. General Reno detailed his keys to success before approximately 1,500 Airmen, civilians,

  • AFMC vice commander addresses Aerospace Summit

    For America to prevail in the Global War on Terror, the Air Force must attack the way it conducts its everyday business with the same synergy that results in air superiority on the battlefield. That's the message Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski, Air Force Materiel Command vice commander, drove home during

  • Charleston maintainers foster AFSO 21 process improvement

    The idea that small changes in processes can make big impacts in productivity is one of the concepts behind Air Force Smart Operations 21, or AFSO 21. Leaders of the 437th Maintenance Group met recently for an intensive four-day process improvement study and found smarter ways of getting aerospace

  • AFSO 21 changes improve C-17 availability at McChord

    Airmen here are using Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century to come up with more efficient ways to use available C-17 Globemaster IIIs for training missions during the week. By shortening the turn time of each aircraft from three hours and 15 minutes to two hours and using an engine

  • Thinking lean, a must for stronger, smaller Air Force

    The U.S. Air Forces in Europe vice commander, Maj. Gen. Marc Rogers, spent time with senior leaders at Incirlik Air Base to discuss the importance of Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, or AFSO21. General Rogers began with a big picture explanation of the Air Force's strong focus on the

  • AFSO 21: Fairchild initiative reduces wait for critical parts

    A maintenance technician here used to wait up to an hour to get a screw and washer before he could complete a KC-135 Stratotanker repair on the flightline. Soon, thanks to an Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st century initiative at the 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, he is just minutes away

  • AFSO 21 money-saving initiative increases capabilities

    A cross-squadron team of Airmen from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing have succeeded in another Air Force Smart Operations 21 initiative that will continue to increase combat capability for the wing, and save money which can be diverted into Air Force recapitalization priorities. An initiative was