AFMC Command News

  • Airdrop system protects Airmen, Soldiers

    Many geographic regions, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where Coalition Forces serve today are remote, mountainous and littered with potential enemy combatants. Getting supplies to friendly troops in these areas is challenging at best, and often requires convoy movements across vast

  • AFRL awards $6.4 million contract to HNC Software

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate has awarded a $6,462,270 contract to HNC Software LLC, Advanced Technologies Group, of San Diego, Calif., for research to improve the capabilities of U.S. intelligence analysts around the world. Under the 52-month award, HNC will develop,

  • A-10 upgrade effort transforms Warthog capabilities

    The venerable, iconic A-10 Warthog - a guardian angel to coalition ground troops and the bane of ground-bound adversaries - is sharpening its teeth. Managed by the 642nd Aeronautical Systems Squadron at Aeronautical Systems Center here, the A/OA-10 is in the early stages of a five-year, $168 million

  • Team makes breakthrough in hypersonic research

    An Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate science and engineering team has made a significant breakthrough in its hypersonic computational research, which could lead to new warhead technologies. Funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research here, the team is studying the

  • Paul Revere team returns from exercise

    Speeding the recovery of downed pilots and foiling the surprise of enemy ambushes - all within 20 minutes of initial imagery tasking - were among the measured successes for the 630th Electronic Systems Squadron's Paul Revere team that recently returned from participating in exercise Empire

  • Simple AFSO21 effort reaps big savings

    A continuing effort to identify and reduce waste and produce more efficiencies in the workplace using Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century, or AFSO21, has resulted in potential annual savings of more than $200,000 at Hanscom AFB. Working together, the 66th Air Base Wing Communication and

  • Robins engineer earns award

    One member of Team Robins said he wouldn't trade his job for anything and recently his hard work and love for his job earned him an Air Force level award. Marty Sheppard, an electronics engineer with the 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group, was recently awarded the 2006 Air Force Science and

  • HARM targeting system ready ahead of schedule

    The 693rd Armament Systems Squadron's High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile Targeting System program reached a major milestone with the delivery of 15 Revision-7 pods to Air Combat Command by Sept. 30. As a result, the team met the warfighter's Required Assets Available objective date two months ahead

  • AFMC commander addresses logistics officers at conference

    Gen. Bruce Carlson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, took the stage at the Logistics Officer Association national conference October 10, and told 1,350 logistics officers to get lean and expect to be in a long war. General Carlson gave the officers an overview of the enemy, and how it exploits

  • Commander-in-chief stops at Robins

    Nearly 200 Airmen and family members felt the thrust of Air Force One taking off after President George W. Bush departed Robins Air Force Base Oct 10. The Commander in Chief landed at Robins before heading to Macon for a fundraiser. Upon his arrival, President Bush was greeted by Georgia Governor

  • Major, NCO reconnect for retirement ceremony

    This is a tale of a career that's come full circle, proving once again that it really is a small Air Force world. In 1986, Alicia Graham was one of more than sixty cadets commissioned at Ohio State University as a second lieutenant in the Air Force. While a cadet in the ROTC, she studied military

  • Reservist gets ‘fit to fight’

    An Air Force reservist at Tinker Air Force Base is taking the charge to be "Fit to Fight" seriously. Master Sgt. Matt Thomas, a jet engine mechanic for the 513th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, has used the program to get himself not only fit but into outstanding health as well. In 14 months,

  • Deception detection research results presented

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here recently hosted a final review of its 5-year, $4 million research grant in detecting deception. Dr. Judee Burgoon, director of human communication research at the University of Arizona's Center for the Management of Information, is the lead principal

  • Research pioneer in atmospheric, space sciences retires

    When Dr. Herbert C. Carlson Jr. accepted a job at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research here in 1998, he became the organization's first-ever permanently assigned chief scientist. Recently, he again made history as the first AFOSR chief scientist to retire. Dr. Carlson has proudly served his

  • Air Force leaders to discuss new 'Cyber Command'

    Air Force leaders are gathering in early November to discuss plans for creation of a new command, one chartered with flying and fighting in cyber space. Cyberspace became an official Air Force domain, like air and space, on Dec. 7, 2005, when Secretary of the Air Force Michael W. Wynne and Chief of