AFMC Command News

  • GEICO selects Robins civilian for public service award

    A 51-year-old Georgia native who was born with a birth defect that left him with no hands or feet, making him a quadruple amputee was chosen as the overall winner of the 2006 GEICO Public Service Award in the Physical Rehabilitation Category for all federal agencies. Michael Hobbs is a financial

  • What's on the Chief's Scope?

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley launched a new Web feature March 14 to tell Airmen what is of special interest to him. Known as "The Chief's Scope," it is designed to briefly highlight current topics General Moseley feels are important to America's Airmen. "The issues on my scope

  • Team Lean Challenge to promote weight loss, camaraderie

    You have the desire to lose weight and change your eating and exercising behaviors, but find you just can't go it alone. Air Force Materiel Command's Team Lean Challenge, or TLC, may be the motivator you've been hoping for. TLC is a command-wide initiative to promote and support weight loss for

  • Type of radiation helps researchers detect hazardous materials

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientists at the University of Bath, England, are using radiation to detect dangerous materials. To detect the materials -- biological agents, chemical explosives, imperfections, contamination and hidden compartments found in confined spaces --

  • History Channel visits Hill Aerospace Museum

    The History Channel's cameras were rolling at the Hill Aerospace Museum in March in support of an upcoming documentary on World War II aircraft recovery operations. The segment filmed at the museum focused on the 1995 recovery mission of a B-24 Liberator that crash landed in Alaska's Aleutian

  • Tinker, Defense Logistics Agency officials discuss Stratotanker sustainment

    "Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency partnership is critical to success." That's the message Michele Rachie, deputy director of the 827th Aircraft Sustainment Group at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., focused on during her March 1 visit to Richmond. Ms. Rachie met with members of Defense Supply

  • Command chief to leave Robins, head back to basic training

    While Georgia may continue to be on his mind, a rare career opportunity has the 78th Air Base Wing's top enlisted member preparing for a San Antonio stroll. Chief Master Sgt. Kevin Ludwig, the 78th ABW command chief master sergeant, was selected as the superintendent for the 737th Training Group at

  • Edwards 'transforms' into blockbuster movie set

    When Dreamworks and Paramount Pictures release the "Transformers" movie July 4, the film will have strong Air Force ties following a visit to Edwards AFB in late February to shoot additional scenes. Based on the mid-'80s animated television program, the live-action movie follows a race of robots

  • Brooks training program integrates medical processes

    The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine here has established a realistic, in-depth training program that marries up two processes to provide essential training to medics who, in many cases, are deployed and doing this very same mission within one to two months. The program ties Expeditionary

  • Air Force supports research of materials for use in extreme environments

    Leading edge scientific discoveries and breakthroughs funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research here could pave the way for new performance capabilities of materials used in extreme environments. Among these latest developments, recently presented at an AFOSR ceramics program review, is

  • AFMC commander shares viewpoints with Edwards community

    Air Force Materiel Command's top officer visited the Antelope Valley in California to share his views on a variety of subjects with the local community, including AFMC's 'One Materiel Command' concept and the Global War on Terror. Gen. Bruce Carlson, AFMC commander, spoke to about 700 people who

  • Research project leads to software model expected to reduce time and cost

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researchers at Kansas State University have developed a new model that could potentially reduce software development time and costs while improving aircraft mission control systems. The model is called Cadena and the work is being done at the

  • Supercomputer to boost Aeronautical Systems Center's capabilities

    With the addition of an SGI® Altix® 4700 computer, the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center here will house one of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's largest supercomputers. Installation of the SGI® Altix® 4700 - a 9,216-processor-core

  • F-35 production inches closer following wind tunnel test

    Arnold Engineering Development Center workers completed the last developmental wind tunnel test in February for all Joint Strike Fighter variants, helping put the F-35 a step closer to manufacturing.According to AEDC Air Force Project Manager 1st Lt. Ezra Caplan, it was the culmination of more than