AFMC Command News

  • New radar flying high as crucial testing begins

    The path to greatly enhanced intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability became clearer Sept. 30 with the first developmental test flight of a new, state-of-the-art radar system. The test, the first in what will be a year-long effort, was run by the 851st Electronic Systems Group, here,

  • Medal of Honor recipients visit Hanscom School

    The three men had seen it all. War, death and destruction had accompanied them through some of the darkest hours in U.S. history. Across the room were more than 40 pairs of eyes -- eyes that widened as the students listened to true stories of courage and heroism that sounded as if they were taken

  • AFMC suffers motorcycle fatalities

    The Air Force saw motorcycle fatalities rise from 15 in fiscal 2005 to 17 in fiscal 2006, with two of the 17 assigned to Air Force Materiel Command organizations. Both AFMC fatalities occurred during the 101 Critical Days of Summer, the period between Memorial Day and Labor Day. In one case, a

  • Air Force launches Young Investigators Research Program

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here Oct. 2 announced it will award approximately $6.3 million in grants to 21 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's new Young Investigator Research Program. The program is open to scientists and

  • AFMC seeks to streamline test and evaluation processes

    If changes to the test and evaluation phases of new concept cars would improve mass production processes and reduce recalls, wouldn't it make sense for an auto manufacturer to spend $1 now if it meant saving $10 later? Officials at Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command think so and are applying

  • ESC Protocol Office implements innovative calendar system

    The Electronic Systems Center Protocol Office, after employing a relatively simple Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century tool, now has an innovative new calendar system for tracking distinguished visitor information. AFSO21 was designed to trigger ideas throughout the Air Force about how

  • VPP promotes safer, healthier work environment

    Tinker Air Force Base is one of nine Air Force installations that will implement the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Voluntary Protection Program in an effort to reduce the number of work-related injuries and illnesses. Recently mandated by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, the

  • Hanscom participants think lean at Book of the Month meeting

    Lean Thinking is on the mandatory reading list established for senior leaders by Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander of the Air Force Materiel Command; but that's not the only reason Electronic Systems Center employees should read it. They should read it, ESC Vice Commander Maj. Gen. Arthur Rooney said at

  • AFMC vice commander testifies on new personnel system

    Lt. Gen. Terry Gabreski, Air Force Materiel Command vice commander, spoke before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, September 20, addressing the recent implementation of the National Security Personnel System Spiral 1.1, at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. It was the

  • Research office underwrites Indian workshop

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has agreed to underwrite an information assurance workshop planned by the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate Jan. 12, 2007, in Bangalore, India. AFOSR's Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), with an initiative to

  • Mirror-coating chamber in place at Starfire Optical Range

    The Defense Department's largest mirror-coating chamber was installed and testing completed recently at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Starfire Optical Range. "This will give the laboratory a safer alternative to transporting the 3.5-meter (11.5 feet) mirror all the way to Kitt Peak Observatory

  • AFMC establishes office to handle Air Force sustainment funding requirements

    In an unprecedented move that will radically simplify and streamline the Air Force sustainment funding system, Air Force Materiel Command will become the Air Force Executive Agent for programming, budgeting and execution for many of the Air Force's sustainment needs beginning Oct. 1.Money previously

  • Deployment program provides lessons for children

    On its fourth anniversary, the Family Support Center's Kids Understanding Deployment Operations program attracted nearly 150 children of Tinker Air Force Base military personnel Sept. 16.Ranging in age from less than 1-year-old to 15, children and their parents experienced a faux deployment line and

  • Process improvement class a priority at Oklahoma City ALC

    As another session of the Green Belt Training Course taught by The Lean Institute here shifts into high gear, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center senior managers stress the importance of the class. The Green Belt Training Course trains 20 students at a time and emphasizes Lean and Six Sigma tools

  • C-130 AMP takes first flight

    The first C-130 Avionics Modernization Program aircraft, H2, successfully completed its first flight Sept. 19 in San Antonio. The flight represented a key milestone in the most comprehensive C-130 avionics modernization effort to date. The C-130 AMP program is managed by the Aeronautical Systems