AFMC Command News

  • Voluntary Protection Program helps reduce injury, illness

    Involvement in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program, or VPP, has many benefits for Air Force Materiel Command. Among the tangible benefits of participating in VPP are: > Reduced risk of injury or illness. > Reduced direct and indirect costs from injuries

  • Trio of cameras enhance forecasting of sun-generated storms

    Every 100 plus minutes, while orbiting approximately 50 miles above the Earth onboard the Coriolis satellite, the Solar Mass Ejection Imager experiment scans the darkness of space seeking sun-generated magnetic clouds of particles intent on striking the planet. Since becoming operational in January

  • AFMC to demonstrate integrated modeling and simulation capability

    Three Air Force Materiel Command organizations will team up with six other Air Force agencies and three industry partners to participate in an ICE Breaker July 17-21. However, in this case, ICE Breaker is not a social event. It refers to the Air Force Integrated Collaborative Environment. AF-ICE is

  • AFMC to demonstrate integrated modeling and simulation capability

    Three Air Force Materiel Command organizations will team up with six other Air Force agencies and three industry partners to participate in an ICE Breaker July 17-21. However, in this case, ICE Breaker is not a social event. It refers to the Air Force Integrated Collaborative Environment. AF-ICE is

  • AFFTC conducts first Design of Experiments course

    The Air Force Flight Test Center recently conducted its first Design of Experiments course to engineers assigned at Edwards. “The response was overwhelming,” said Dr. George Ka’iliwai, AFFTC Technical Advisor and course instructor. “We sent the public announcement describing the course out via

  • Wavelets may help analysts make decisions

    With funding provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research here, an Air Force Research Laboratory team began a new study on wavelets to help information analysts better prioritize workload. Basically, a wavelet represents a snapshot of information at a given point in time. Capt. Jamie R.

  • JAGs take ‘battle’ against terrorism to Iraqi court

    When I passed the bar exam in July 2003, I never imagined I would present criminal cases in an Iraqi court. Although I was already an Air Force officer with almost nine years of military experience, I thought at most I might have to deploy to Iraq to work in a legal office taking care of the needs

  • AFMC prepares for civilian job reductions

    Air Force Materiel Command officials announced June 29 that the command will lose between 600 and 720 civilian positions in fiscal 2007 as part of Department of Defense-mandated force reductions. Affected positions will be identified by Oct. 1, 2006 — the beginning of fiscal 2007. Positions will be

  • First combat loss replacement C-130 aircraft ready for action

    June 28 marked the beginning of an era for Robins and the warfighters of Air Force Special Operations Command, as the first-of-its-kind MC-130W was presented to Lt. Gen. Mike Wooley, AFSOC commander, in a ceremony here. “A lot of work went into this aircraft,” said Maj. Gen. Michael Collings, Warner

  • Boeing, 418th FLTS C-130 avionics mod program under way

    8th Flight Test Squadron's C-130 Avionics Modernization Program test team here has been actively working toward the first flight of the first modified airframe scheduled for late August. Selected aircrew members of the Edwards test team are currently attending two weeks of aircrew qualification

  • ‘Falcon’ adds power to support mission-critical work

    The newest supercomputer at the Aeronautical Systems Center’s Major Shared Resource Center went into production recently, enabling advanced problem-solving capabilities for mission-critical support to the Department of Defense. The new Falcon system will aid the ASC MSRC in providing greater

  • Weather flight device improves forcasting capability

    The 88th Operations Squadron's Weather Flight recently began using a new tool to help them observe weather conditions at Wright-Patterson. The device, an automatic observation system, gathers weather information from sensors at both ends of the base runways and presents it on a computer screen

  • OPSEC officer’s abilities no secret

    Wright-Patterson’s operations security officer at the 88th Security Forces Squadron recently was honored with three awards. Teresa Anderson was named the Air Force operations security program manager of the year and runner-up in the individual achievement award category in the National Operational

  • AF marathon runs past milestone

    Officials at the U.S. Air Force Marathon office just celebrated a milestone as they passed 1,000 runners who have signed up to participate in the 2006 U.S. Air Force Marathon. The official count of the Sept. 16 race, as of June 28, is 1,011 and rises daily. By comparison, only 444 had registered by

  • Eglin airfield complex selected as best of the best

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. — With nearly five million square yards of pavement used by six wings, five major commands, six civilian airlines, the Army and the Navy, the 46th Operations Support Squadron here recently won the 2005 Complex of the Year award. “Winning Complex of the Year award is huge,”