AFMC Command News

  • AFOSR-funded research leads to breakthrough involving quantum dots

    Using Air Force Office of Scientific Research basic research funding, through the Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development (AOARD), a team of scientists from Thailand are the first in their field to successfully demonstrate physical utilization of quantum dots for photovoltaic operations.

  • Hill honor guard shares thoughts on Flag Day

    While July Fourth is traditionally celebrated as our nation’s birthday, June 14 is the day to celebrate one of America's most cherished and recognizable symbol: the American Flag. This year, America recognizes the 229th birthday of Old Glory with its own holiday. The Continental Congress adopted it

  • Small Business Innovation Research program aids warfighter

    Using monies from the Small Business Innovation Research program, many U.S. for-profit companies, comprised of 500 or less personnel, have made a huge impact by providing ground-breaking technologies needed for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates,

  • Wright-Patterson, community practice for major aircraft crash

    Approximately two months after a C-5 crashed at Dover Air Force Base, Del., in which all 17 people aboard survived, base officials partnered with local organizations here in a C-5 aircraft crash exercise June 8 in case one goes down locally. Making the training more applicable, the 445th Airlift

  • Operation Air Force gives cadets a look at the real thing

    While they still have more than a year to go before being commissioned into the United States Air Force, 50 U.S. Air Force Academy and Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets will have a much clearer picture of their roles and responsibilities as an Air Force officer. Thanks to Operation Air Force,

  • Officers help out hurricane victims

    More than 10 Eglin Company Grade Officers volunteered their time and handy work for two local Hurricane Ivan victims June 3 in Fort Walton Beach with Habitat for Humanity. The two hurricane victims lost their homes in 2004 and have been living in temporary housing provided by the Federal Emergency

  • AFMC delivers capability that helps take out Zarqawi

    The Air Force’s latest contribution to the ongoing Global War on Terrorism took center stage June 7 when an air strike against an identified, isolated safe house north of Baghdad killed terrorist leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, head of al-Qaida in Iraq. Air Force Materiel Command developed, acquired,

  • Software team shifts mission support to C-5s

    Now that the C-141 Starlifter has officially retired after 43 years of providing strategic global airlift, those who cared for it are left behind to find a new purpose. The 402nd Maintenance Group software support team is filling the void with a new workload – the C-5 Galaxy. “It’s an engineer’s

  • Housing privatization embraces Smart Operations 21

    The Air Force housing privatization process is taking a leaner, more efficient approach to getting the job done by developing one central management center, Air Force officials said recently. “The secretary of the Air Force challenged us to find a better way to manage and broker deals and successful

  • AFSO21 initiative leads to safer flying at Lakenheath

    As Air Force Smart Operations 21 went Air Force-wide this year, the 48th Fighter Wing here jump-started its program with weekly AFSO21 initiatives briefed at wing stand-up. “I want every Airman, civilian and (Ministry of Defense) employee on this base to understand, first of all, what AFSO21 is, but

  • Leaders hold key to AFSO21 success

    A cornerstone of the secretary of the Air Force’s tenure is Air Force Smart Operations 21. He recently said that Air Force leaders hold the key to success for the initiative. "I have told our leaders that we cannot allow AFSO21 to escape the wing leadership, whether that is the wing commander, group

  • AFMC employee to attend MIT

    An employee from Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Air, Space and Information Operations, Fielding and Testing Division here received a Sloan Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership scholarship to study business, innovation and leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of

  • Small, flexible computer chip produces big results

    About the size of a U.S. quarter coin, the field programmable gate array computer chip consists of 400 to 500 million transistors and two to three miles of wiring, but its flexible capacity significantly contributed to the Air Force’s decision to employ the small component in its next generation of