AFMC Command News

  • AFMC requires hands-free devices for drivers using cell phones

    Beginning in April, drivers on Air Force Materiel Command bases will be cited by security forces personnel for talking on cell phones without hands-free devices. Repeated violations could result in suspended or revoked driving privileges. Cell phone use while driving is categorized as a moving

  • AFMC base part of Spiral 1.1, initial conversion to civilian personnel system

    On April 30 the Department of Defense will roll out the performance-management, pay, staffing, and work force-shaping provisions of the National Security Personnel System to 11,000 civilian employees across DoD. Air Force Materiel Command will have about 2,500 non-bargaining unit General Schedule

  • Electronic Systems Center team pushing ‘smart’ process, culture change

    An Electronic Systems Center team is working to save time, money and tons of material, all while increasing security when America’s most sensitive information is distributed.The Cryptologic Systems Group, located at Lackland AFB, Texas, is working hard to institute an electronic “key” process that

  • Guidance kit converts bombs into 'smart' weapons of choice

    To call yourself the warfighter's weapon of choice is one thing, but it's quite another to go out and back it up. But there is no doubting that statement when looking at the facts of the Joint Direct Attack Munition. Since its combat debut the weapon has been called upon more than 15,000 times and

  • Satellite to furnish warfighter with real-time information

    In the battle environment, every second counts, and accelerated (within 10 minutes) information downloaded to the joint warfighter, to be demonstrated in the upcoming TacSat-3 mission, could result in victory, but more importantly, in lives saved. Planned to launch in late summer 2007, the TacSat-3

  • NCO rescues his military working dog from burning building

    It was a clear, cool night at Forward Operating Base Wilson near the city of Tikrit in central Iraq. Staff Sgt. Christopher F. McCleskey gave his canine partner, Katja, food and water and left her in their quarters after a mission. He ducked into a dining hall shortly before 9 p.m. Jan. 28 for a

  • Eglin medics help thousands in Honduras

    A team of 23 medics from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is leading the way on a two-week, four-site Medical Readiness Training Exercise, or MEDRETE, in Honduras. The MEDRETE is part of New Horizons 2006-Honduras, a joint training exercise between the U.S. military and Honduran government that

  • AWARD: Acquisition officer earns Air Force honor

    Very rarely does someone get the chance to build a brand new arsenal from scratch, but in 2005 the commander of the Special Projects Squadron had that opportunity and was recently rewarded for his efforts. In February Lt. Col. Scott Owens was named the 2005 Air Force Outstanding Military Acquisition

  • Command tasking process gets "quick win"

    The way Air Force Materiel Command delegates and tracks suspenses just received an upgrade thanks to people from across the command who met here during a Lean event March 6 -10 to improve the tasking process. When Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Century kicked off in AFMC, the tasking

  • Largest ever modernization program enhances F-16s

    The largest ever F-16 modernization program continues to advance, making the aircraft a more lethal, survivable and network-centric weapon system in the Global War on Terrorism. The F-16 Systems Group of Aeronautical Systems Center's Fighter-Attack Systems Wing here recently awarded an $84 million

  • 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