AFIMSC declares FOC

The unit that consolidated more than 150 Air Force-wide installation and mission support capabilities a year ago has achieved full operating capability.

Hanscom hosts RATPAC VI, encourages innovation, challenges to status quo

A network of acquisition professionals from across the Air Force gathered here Oct. 17 to 21 to collaborate on transforming the AF acquisition culture.

Edwards boom operators set sight on future KC-46 testing

Earlier this year in Everett, Washington, workers from the 418th Flight Test Squadron, Detachment 1, and Boeing teamed to achieve major test milestones for the KC-46 Pegasus aerial refueling tanker, which resulted in the Department of Defense authorizing initial production in August.   Going forward

Edwards NCO ‘joins’ Marines for senior NCO training

When it came time for Master Sgt. Daniel Magas to attend the next step in his professional military education – the Air Force Senior Noncommissioned Officer Academy – he decided to take a different route.   Magas, the commandant of Edwards AFB’s Airman Leadership School, decided to attend the U.S.

Hanscom looks to leverage industry to improve air picture

A program office here is working to improve and upgrade a system that provides comprehensive air surveillance and defense with a recent request for information and industry days.

Reservists’ civilian experience proves vital to new aircraft programs

When it comes to accomplishing the mission, it’s not uncommon for the civilian work experience of Citizen Airmen to play as vital of a role as their military experience. This is certainly the case for Lt. Col. Robert Latka and other reservists supporting the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at

New test force focuses on autonomy, small unmanned aircraft systems, new technologies

The 412th Test Wing has a new organization that will explore the Air Force warfighting capabilities of tomorrow.   The Emerging Technologies Combined Test Force was officially activated in early July and its mission is to provide agile, innovative flight test capabilities for emerging technologies.

Fighter aircraft shelter from Hurricane Matthew

Florida F-15s and South Carolina F-35s come to Eglin Air Force Base to shelter from Hurricane Matthew.

AFMC promotes ‘RECESS’ physical activity challenge

During the months of October through December, Air Force Materiel Command will promote its RECESS physical activity challenge.RECESS is a command-wide initiative which is conducted by Civilian Health Promotion Services, to help the AFMC workforce increase movement by promoting short bursts of

AFMC commander visits wing at N.Y. Guard base

Interorganizational synergy fuels successful test outcome

Synergy across organizations and across services was on full display during a recent deployment of three F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, 75 Marines and 21 JSF operational test team members from Edwards to Florida where they successfully completed five live-fire events using AIM-120 air-to-air

Meeting of the minds: Innovation team hears energy-saving proposal

The 412th Test Wing Innovation Team is always looking for a few good ideas, and it may have received one Sept. 23. Jack Frazier from the 412th Civil Engineering Group proposed that the base install solar-powered attic fans in buildings on base.   Frazier is a resource efficiency manager for the

AEDC Instrumentation, Data and Controls team implements significant software changes

Members of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex Instrumentation, Data and Controls team have implemented software changes that will benefit aeropropulsion test cells at the complex by increasing the speed in which the Air Force and AEDC test customers receive dynamic data. Mike Pepple, an ID&C

Robins unit recertified by OSHA as VPP Star Site

The 402nd Maintenance Support Group has been recertified as a Star Site by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration following a visit in August.   The group was awarded the prestigious OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Star Site accreditation in 2013 for its ongoing commitment to workplace

Utah DOD agencies host annual meeting with American Indian tribes

Utah Department of Defense agencies hosted their annual face-to-face meeting Aug. 25-26 with American Indian tribes who claim ancestral and ongoing ties to lands managed by the DOD agencies.