AFMC Command News

  • Preaching with Pace

    It’s a hot day on the base track as the photographer checks his settings and composes the shot. He yells “go” and our subject launches from all fours with jackrabbit acceleration. Eight very quick, pounding strides later the side-to-side shoulder rocking stops, eyes rise from feet to foreground, and

  • Air Force Battle Lab advances the kill chain with AI, C2 Innovation

    The 805th Combat Training Squadron, or Shadow Operations Center-Nellis, completed another major experiment of 2025, advancing key priorities in human-machine teaming, data convergence, and emerging technologies to sharpen U.S. Air Force and command and control capabilities, Nellis Air Force Base,

  • Richardson receives highest enlisted honor

    Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, was formally inducted into the Order of the Sword during a ceremony June 24 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

  • Microreactor pilot reaches major project milestone

    The Department of the Air Force, in coordination with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy Office, reached a critical milestone in piloting advanced nuclear energy technology with the issuance of a Notice of Intent to Award (NOITA) to Oklo, Inc.

  • AFIMSC celebrates 10 years of making Air Force success its mission

    On April 6, 2015, the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center was activated to centralize management support and consolidate enterprise-level installation and mission support operations to help commanders focus on their primary mission areas. Ten years later, AFIMSC is celebrating its

  • DAF announces Spark Tank 2025 finalists

    DAF leaders announced the finalists of the 2025 Spark Tank competition made up of premier innovation ideas by Airmen and Guardians seeking sponsorship to bring their concepts to life.

  • AFCEC awards leases for 5G service at all CONUS bases

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center recently finished awarding leases that will bring 5G service to 84 Air and Space Force installations by 2028, helping the workforce, Airmen, Guardians and their families stay connected through secure and reliable networks.

  • Cloud One among topics briefed at digital roadshow at Hanscom Air Force Base

    Representatives from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Digital Enterprise Launch Team for Acquisition and the Air Force Materiel Command Digital Transformation Office recently met face-to-face with program teams at the Hanscom Conference Center, providing insights to inform the AFMC Digital

  • AFICC-hosted summit preps acquisition pros for GPC operations

    More than 300 contracting professionals gathered in San Antonio for the 2024 Worldwide Operational Acquisition Training Summit to collaborate about how to better execute installation and mission support programs for Air Force Great Power Competition operations.