AFMC Command News

  • AFIT videographers 'stream' graduation footage to Internet

    For videographers, most days are spent in a booth, providing support to Air Force Institute of Technology instructors teaching distance learning classes. The 2006 AFIT March Graduation provided them a chance to show their stuff. With static cameras shooting constant footage, and a roaming camera

  • Air Force Research Laboratory improves C-130 ramp design

    As part of its advanced aluminum aerostructures initiative program, researchers at Air Force Research Laboratory redesigned a C-130 ramp extension. At 30 pounds, the new ramp design is 16 pounds lighter than the previous model. In addition, the new design is safer and easier for the loadmaster to

  • Rapid Improvement Event speeds up civilian hiring process

    Electronic Systems Center's first Rapid Improvement Event cut the fat out of the civilian hiring process at Hanscom, identifying a potential 58 percent reduction in the total time it takes to process a Request for Personnel Action and submit it to the Air Force Personnel Center. In only three short

  • Palmdale detachment takes U-2 testing to new heights

    Edwards Air Force Base has a long history of testing cutting-edge weapons systems for the Air Force. A little-known detachment at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif., is no exception, but the aircraft tested there are not as well-known as the newest Air Force assets. Warner Robins Air Logistics

  • Awareness can prevent sexual assault

    Sexual assault awareness and prevention has been a hot-ticket item among base leadership for many months, but base personnel will have even more exposure to the topic this month. April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and Eglin will observe the month with many activities ranging from

  • Internet technology to make FAST air combat improvement

    An Electronic Systems Center capability, demonstrated in a proof-of-concept flight March 29 at Eglin AFB, Fla., could translate into more effective information sharing and better overall situational awareness. The effort known as Flexible Access Secure Transfer, or FAST, a technology concept managed

  • Automated security system to go 'on duty' in Iraq -- again

    One year after answering the Marine Corps' call to meet an urgent need, the Force Protection Systems Squadron here is preparing to do it again. It will deploy another Tactical Automated Security System to Al Taqaddum Air Base, Iraq, this month. "The Marine Corps came to us saying, 'We want to make

  • Feature: Model behavior: Local club shares history with hobby

    Carol Hall has been modeling for the past 20 years, but she hasn't hit any major runways yet. No, she doesn't need a new agent. She's into a different kind of modeling - one that involves kits, paint and a very steady hand. The Contracting Directorate's Flexible Acquisition Sustainment Tool office

  • Feature: Partnership gives aircraft a facelift

    By the time Staff Sgt. Anthony Dyer was born, aircraft tail number 51-17144 had already served 17 years in the United States Air Force and retired as a veteran of rescue operations in Vietnam. As the sergeant journeyed through the 'terrible twos,' the aircraft, an HU-16B Albatross and by then a

  • Computer logon changes set to improve security

    Logging onto a government computer will never be the same for most people starting in August thanks to tighter security measures taking place across the Department of Defense. The changes are a response to ongoing attacks on government computer systems by organized groups, which are often outside

  • AFMC announces enlisted annual award winners

    It had the makings of a Hollywood awards show - bright lights, red carpet, video clips, a live band, a sit-down dinner and attendees dressed to the nines. But this event also included a color guard, saber arch and a static collection of attack, bomber, cargo, fighter and experimental aircraft

  • Research lab runners participate in Army marathon

    Army-Air Force interactions are alive and well, at least for a team of runners who participated in a marathon March 25 at the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range. Runners from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., made the four-hour drive to the Army range to

  • SkyTote to demonstrate high-speed flight with vertical takeoff

    Air Force Research Laboratory scientists are working on a novel unmanned air vehicle called SkyTote that will take off and land vertically like a helicopter, but also transition into horizontal flight like a conventional aircraft. SkyTote's primary mission to deliver a payload to a specific point

  • Airman 'wheels' for fortune

    An Edwards Airman got a chance to spin her "wheels" for a fortune Feb. 8. Senior Airman Victoria Dougherty, 412th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron F-16 avionics system specialist, participated in the "Wheel of Fortune - Wheel Salutes the Armed Forces" edition, set to air the first week of April, and

  • AFMC civilian course gains other commands' interest

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFMCNS) - Representatives from three commands plan to meet with Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command professional development staff here in May to discuss adapting the AFMC Orientation Course for their commands. Leadership from the three commands, Air