AFMC Command News

  • Electronic Systems Center program honored

    An Electronic Systems Center command and control program that enables real-time threat detection and response planning recently received a coveted award from the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement. The Integrated Strategic Planning and Analysis Network Program (ISPAN) won in the

  • Conference to examine DoD compliance with civil airspace requirements

    The Electronic Systems Center's Global Air Traffic Systems Group will hold its 2006 Communication Navigation Surveillance/Air Traffic Management (CNS/ATM) Conference Feb. 27 to Mar. 2 at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Dallas, Texas. The conference will enhance Defense Department understanding of CNS/ATM

  • Rapid prototyping speeds up design feasibility assessment

    Traditional wind tunnel models are meticulously machined from metal in a process that can take several months. These models are highly precise, but the manufacturing process is too slow to assess a new design's feasibility quickly. In support of Integrated Rapid Aerodynamics Assessment, the Air

  • New facility set to be environmentally friendly

    A new aircraft paint and depaint facility under construction here is designed to be environmentally friendly and cost efficient. Before a shovel ever hit the ground Environmental Management personnel ensured the project was safe from an Environmental Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH)

  • Global Hawk earns military airworthiness certification

    Global Hawk became the first unmanned aerial system to complete the military airworthiness certification process and be granted a military airworthiness certificate during a ceremony Jan. 25 at Aeronautical Systems Center here. Randy Brown, Global Hawk Systems Group director, signed the official

  • AFRL enters into partnership with local school

    Development and testing of a high school curriculum in cyber security is the goal of an educational partnership agreement recently formulated between the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Information Directorate and Rome Catholic School. Under terms of the agreement, the directorate's Cyber

  • Small office comes up big for armament, munitions Airmen

    When it comes to handling munitions no one does a better job than the Munitions Materiel Handling Equipment Focal Point here. The Focal Point is an organization assigned to the Agile Combat Support Systems Squadron. Its sole purpose is to support the entire Air Force armament and munitions community

  • High-speed air vehicles designed for rapid global reach

    Flight achieving hypersonic speed, ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 miles per hour (Mach 9 to Mach 22), and reaching altitudes between 100,000 to 150,000 feet, requires an airframe structure designed to survive intense heat and pressure. Such technology is in development by scientists and engineers with

  • F-22 Combined Test Force gets Collier Trophy nod

    The Air Force Chief of Staff nominated the F-22 Combined Test Force here for the National Aeronautic Association's 2005 Robert J. Collier Trophy. The trophy is presented annually for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance,

  • Services feeds, shelters transient troops

    "They came in droves, hungry and tired," said Lt. Col. David Preston, 379th Expeditionary Services Squadron commander. "But Services was up for the challenge." Bad weather delayed flights around the theater of operations. As a result, the base had an increased amount of transient personnel waiting

  • 'Thank you' lands Hill military wife on national show

    Kristine Bailey just wanted to say 'thank you'. The Hill military wife had no idea that her gratitude would lead to a television appearance. As with many Americans, Mrs. Bailey struggled with a weight problem. After her third pregnancy in 2001 she weighed 250 pounds on her 5-foot-2-inch frame. "I

  • The future of security forces in combat

    In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, 2005, the first combat patrols of Operation Desert Safeside left the northern perimeter of Balad Air Base, Iraq, and began an aggressive 60-day combat operation to kill or capture insurgents attacking the air base. This was a historic mission for Air Force

  • Three questions can save a life

    Nearly 20 years ago when Ida Glover asked her 40-year-old son a question and he couldn't respond, she thought he had suffered some type of nerve damage - but days later she discovered his prognosis was much worse. Doctors at the Medical Center of Central Georgia told Ms. Glover her son, Mr. Carey

  • Investment lost without exercise

    What if someone offered you $3,600 a year to take better care of yourself? And what if the only stipulation was a little concentrated effort on your part? Would you balk at the deal? I doubt it. And yet, that's exactly what you're doing if you're...say for example, a GS-11, step one employee, and

  • 'Smart' thinking: Smart Cable helps protect aircraft

    In December 2003 and January 2004, several Air Force aircraft took fire near Baghdad, but the missile warning systems failed to indicate the attacks. Air Force officials looked to the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center for a fix. An airlift defensive systems tiger team was formed to find a solution,