AFMC Command News

  • Airman aided by wingmen, AFAS

    In July 2005, Senior Airman Jessica Boprey, a laboratory technician in the 88th Diagnostics and Therapeutics Squadron, received help from the Air Force Assistance Fund’s Air Force Aid Society. She had to take emergency leave because both her mother and grandfather were hospitalized at the same time

  • Edwards to Mission Control

    NASA Dryden Flight Research Center teamed with Edwards, March 2, to provide local students the opportunity to experience an ‘out-of-this-world’ interaction with two astronauts. Students from Edwards Middle and Branch Elementary schools here and Gifford C. Middle School, in Lancaster, Calif.,

  • EOD, FBI ‘blast’ into Edwards’ classroom

    While battling sand storms and winds in excess of 25 mph, 55 people and one four-legged “investigator” combed a 50-foot desert area on Edwards searching for evidence that could lead them to the cause of a large vehicle explosion at the Precision Impact Range Area. Working along side the FBI, Edwards

  • Edwards flight testers exercise for war

    Edwards deploys hundreds of Airmen in support of the Global War on Terror each year. But the base’s unique mission of flight test “launches” support for GWOT each day from the Edwards flight line; support that was put to the test, Feb. 27 through March 3, as part of an Operational Readiness Exercise

  • AWARD: Center wins award for business innovation

    For the second straight year, the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center has been recognized as an industry leader by winning the Charles B. Ryan Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Award for Business Innovation from Aviation Week and Overhaul & Maintenance magazine. Tinker Air Force Base officials

  • Balancing Act: Hanscom sergeant strives for excellence

    "Bloom where you're planted" was the advice given to one Airman upon her arrival here in 2003. Eager to make every day count by finding that delicate balance between an Air Force career, a family and being a volunteer in her community, that advice did not fall on deaf ears. Then Tech. Sgt. Cheryl

  • Center tests components for reliability

    Better known to the locals as Little Mountain, the Survivability and Vulnerability Integration Center's main customer is the 526th ICBM Systems Wing at Hill, primarily providing "hardness" testing - reliability of components in missile systems. The importance is obvious; aircraft, missiles or

  • AFSAC uses process improvement to benefit customers

    Using tools now included in the Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century initiative, the Air Force Security Assistance Center was able to return nearly $100 million to foreign military sales customers. Although AFSAC customers were the primary beneficiaries in terms of cash, those involved in

  • News brief: Don't be fooled by copycat Web sites

    Did you know that there are copycat or look-a-like Web sites developed to make people think they are accessing official sites? That includes the myPay Web site. These sites request personal information that, if provided, could cause a variety of problems for the members.

  • Air Force Outstanding Civilian Program Manager named

    In the acquisition world you need a program manager that is a critical thinker, superb communicator and top problem solver, and the Air-to-Ground Munitions System Wing has the best in the Air Force. Recently Tom Mullins was named the 2005 Air Force Outstanding Civilian Program Manager for his

  • Resource center ribbon cutting

    Aeronautical Systems Center's Major Shared Resource Center, one of four major high-performance computing centers in the Department of Defense, celebrated the culmination of its High Performance Computing Technology Insertion acquisition process for fiscal year 2005 on Monday during a ribbon cutting

  • JASSM - The Air Force's Next Generation Cruise Missile

    Since the late 1970s the Department of Defense has tried and failed numerous times to give the warfighter an affordable standoff cruise missile capable of taking out the enemy's air defenses early on in a conflict. Fast forward to 2006 and that warfighter need has finally been met by the Air Force's

  • LEAD the way into a bright future

    The Air Force is on the look out for 135 outstanding Airmen to attend the U.S. Air Force Academy. Leaders Encouraging Airmen Development, or LEAD, is a program designed for notable young Airmen to progress their education and earn a commission. The program seeks the best and brightest of the Air

  • Tinker employee battling high blood pressure - and winning

    Michael Black's blood pressure had always been a little high, but he never had any symptoms. So his somewhat regular exercise program of lifting weights seemed like enough. "I always wanted to bring it down, I just never had the motivation to do it," he said. "I was going after work at first, but

  • National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex set to reopen

    The Arnold Engineering Development Center and the U.S. Air Force recently signed a lease with NASA to reopen the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex located on NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Under the terms of a 25-year lease, NASA will retain ownership of the facility