AFMC News

March 25, 2025
Defenders enhance skills during annual Advanced Combat Training Exercise

The Advanced Combat Training Exercise brought together 40 personnel from 10 different installations, spanning three major commands and encompassing eight teams.
March 25, 2025
Royal Air Force leadership visit focuses on interoperability, sustainment strategy

Senior leaders from the Royal Air Force visited the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex to facilitate bilateral engagement, foster cross-talk of engineering support, and explore shared sustainment capabilities across allied air forces.
March 25, 2025
Tinker hosts inaugural joint military Chaplaincy recruiting event

The day-in-the-life joint-service recruiting event aimed to inspire future military chaplains and strengthening partnerships between military and civilian faith communities.
March 25, 2025
AFMC commander visits Tinker AFB, views Readiness Training

Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, visited Tinker March 10, to observe the base's commitment to readiness and innovation.
March 25, 2025
CYP inspectors key to safe, quality child & youth care

An inspection program conducted by the Air Force Services Center’s Child and Youth Program team is a key part of the Department of the Air Force’s ability to deliver quality care.
March 24, 2025
Warriors unite, discover capabilities

This year’s Warrior Day focused on readiness through team building and hands-on interactions with many of the warfighting capabilities operating on Eglin every day.
March 21, 2025
New Horizons panel discusses operationalizing artificial intelligence

Panelists from the Cyber & Networks Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Raft discussed the future of AI and its various applications and capabilities.
March 21, 2025
U.S. Air Force business opportunities lead discussion at AFCEA New Horizons

This year’s agenda centered on providing service members the strategic advantage necessary to maintain a lethal fighting force, ensuring national security. This aligns with the Department of Defense’s intent of matching threats to capabilities.
March 19, 2025
DOD's acquisition community already working on Golden Dome, big team effort required

The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment is working with partner agencies, including the Missile Defense Agency and the military services, to pursue a Golden Dome designed to protect against inbound missile attacks.
March 19, 2025
Air Force acquisition leaders connect with industry during small business panel

The Hanscom Air Force Base Small Business Office held a panel for industry professionals to connect with base senior acquisition and contracting leaders March 10.
March 19, 2025
Airmen in combat

20 Airmen completed a week-long Air Force Combatives course to become instructors.
March 19, 2025
AFMC’s enduring contracting podcast delivers knowledge, expertise to field

With more than 65 published episodes and 265,000 listens to date, The Contracting Experience podcast delivers relevant, timely contracting insights, education and advice through interviews with government leaders, industry experts and more.
March 19, 2025
Spring is in the air!

Whether spring cleaning or getting to those DIY projects put off for warmer weather done, or heading out to explore mother nature be proactive and make checklists of all the tools or gear you will need to get it done safely.
March 18, 2025
Eglin engineers bring innovation to combat

A select group of Eglin AFB Airmen gathered at the Emerald Spark Incubator March 10-14 to collaborate in the first-ever Combat Innovation Cohort.
March 18, 2025
History in Two: Northrop Snark

The linkage between jets and missiles begins with the Allison J33 turbojet engine, originally installed in the Lockheed F-80, and is woven together through the Snark glide missile system which incorporated jet engine and nuclear technologies leading the United States into the post-World War II

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