AFMC Command News

  • 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

  • Newest Warhawk game debuts at Hill museum

    Against the backdrop of the Hill Aerospace Museum and its collection of planes that served as inspiration, Sony Computer Entertainment unveiled the latest version of the Sony PlayStation 3 game, Warhawk, here Feb. 22. Media and other guests in attendance were introduced to the game's new settings

  • Edwards launches first base-focused video podcast in DoD

    More than 16 months after Edwards launched its first audio podcast, the base launched video podcasts on its public Web site Feb. 28.Podcasting is an Internet publishing technology that allows users to subscribe to an automatic feed of audio and video files. The first video posted in the new podcast

  • AFMC's 24-hour customer support centers partner with warfighters

    When aircraft maintainers half-way around the world need help fast, it's only a phone call away thanks to round-the-clock support now available at Air Force Materiel Command's three air logistics center. The customer support centers, or CSCs, at Tinker AFB, Okla., Robins AFB, Ga., and Hill AFB,

  • Air Force selects Columbus, Ohio to host AF Heritage Week

    Reaffirming its commitment to the commemoration of 60 years of air and space power, the Air Force announced Feb. 23 that Columbus has been selected to host the nation's only Air Force Heritage Week in September in conjunction with The Gathering of Mustangs and Legends. Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski, vice

  • General Carlson reports on AFMC's contributions in Southwest Asia

    In the thick of rocket propelled grenades, mortars and small-arms fire in a battle, the last thing on a combat controller's mind would be thanking Air Force Materiel Command for the weapons the controller is about to employ. Using better intelligence offered by AFMC's advancements, the controller

  • Test squadron demonstrates Sniper pod capability

    The 419th Flight Test Squadron recently completed its initial developmental testing of the Sniper pod installed on a B-1B Lancer here. The Sniper pod will increase the aircraft's self-targeting capability.The Sniper pod, manufactured by Lockheed Martin, is an advanced targeting pod with multi-sensor

  • Light carbon-fiber structure protects heavy space cargo

    The inaugural performance of a structural configuration and corresponding method for fabricating launch vehicle fairings met the expectations of Space Vehicles Directorate scientists here. The Advanced Grid-Stiffened composite payload fairing was employed during the December 2006 launch of the