AFMC Command News

  • AFMC commander asserts need for operational experience

    Bringing more engineers into the Air Force acquisition career field is a priority for Air Force Materiel Command's top officer. Gen. Bruce Carlson, AFMC commander, discussed this topic and other issues with 170 people attending the 2006 U.S. Air Force Acquisition Leaders Forum. The event was held in

  • New course benefits civilians professionally

    Air Force Materiel Command civilian professional development will take a leap forward when Mrs. Barbara A. Westgate, AFMC executive director, unveils the AFMC Orientation Course during a March 3 video teleconference from Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. The course made its debut at AFMC headquarters

  • Commander best Air Force military system program director

    For a long time now the members of the Long Range Missile Systems Group believed they had the best program director in the Air Force. Now it's official. Recently their commander, Col. Jim Geurts, was named the 2005 Air Force Outstanding Military System Program Director, and they believe no one is

  • Newest 'Raptor pilot' sets record at young age

    Team Edwards and the 411th Flight Test Squadron welcomed its "newest pilot" and his family to Edwards Feb. 14. Reilly Koyl, also known as "Raptor 00," may need a set of telephone books on the seat of the F-22A Raptor to see over the canopy rail, but that didn't deter the intrepid aviator from

  • Maintainers ready for Raptor

    The F-22 Raptor's unequaled capabilities bring some unique challenges to Air Force maintainers here. Not the least of which is gearing up a support machine to handle the maintenance workload when the first Raptors arrive for modifications in April. Approximately 18 of the 21st century fighter

  • Protein study a real eye opener

    Warfighters will never have the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but a specialized whey protein supplement under study here could enhance mental and physical performance. A double-blind Air Force Research Laboratory study was launched Feb. 3 as part of an operational readiness

  • Big leap forward in detecting ground targets from the cosmos

    When launched in 2010, a football-field-in-length demonstrator, weighing more than five tons, will serve as the forerunner for the future of America's intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets in the heavens. Administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate,

  • Pod testing set to improve Coalition and joint training

    After a lot of hard work and dedication, the P5 Combat Training System began flight testing last month. The P5 CTS is the next generation of air combat training systems and provides a revolutionary capability of rangeless operation and real-time monitoring. The program includes a number of planned

  • Atlas V solid rocket booster modifications validated

    As radios crackled with the countdown “five, four, three, two, one … ignition,” members of the Air Force Research Lab at Edwards witnessed the third validation-static firing of Aerojet’s Block B Solid Rocket Booster. This 90-second static firing occurred Jan. 27 at the lab’s Edwards Research Site,

  • AFSO 21: A mindset for achieving process improvements

    In December, a decision was made to rename the Air Force’s continuous process improvement initiatives Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, or AFSO 21. The details are still being defined regarding AFSO 21. But Air Force Materiel Command – and particularly the three air logistics centers

  • Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-3 comes home

    The first deployed Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle to return home (UAV-3) landed Monday at Edwards AFB, Calif., after logging more than 4,800 flight hours in a four-year period, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Combined Task Force—Horn of Africa. On hand to

  • AWARD: Sewing volunteer helps troops, wins award

    The spouse of a lieutenant colonel working at Headquarters Development and Fielding Systems Group here won an award for her volunteer efforts in helping injured troops returning from combat overseas. Ginger Dosedel, founder of the charitable organization "Sew Much Comfort," won the Chief of Staff of

  • Family housing employees serves homeless

    Eleven employees of the Civil Engineering Military Family Housing Division came together Feb. 10 for their wingman activity at the House of Bread in Dayton. From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the team members prepared sandwiches and salads, served, washed dishes and cleaned up lunch for 150-300 people who are

  • Sergeant finds home in Air Force

    When his mother pushed him out of a car traveling 35 mph, the high school junior dusted himself off and immediately started learning the rules of the streets. He began recycling soda cans for income, eating stale doughnuts, dumpster diving for blankets and sleeping on shredded cardboard boxes.

  • Staff to tech in one STEP

    Staff Sgt. Lee Feldhausen, a defense paralegal in the Hanscom Area Defense Counsel office, got the shock of his Air Force career at the 66th Air Base Wing annual awards banquet Feb. 10 when Electronic Systems Center Commander Lt. Gen. Chuck Johnson surprised him with an instant promotion to