AFMC Command News

  • Data consolidation project enhances Air Force munitions logistics tracking

    Organizations at Hill Air Force Base played a key role in completing a data consolidation project that will enhance the logistics tracking and management of munitions across the Air Force. The project, which was initiated in response to a 2020 Headquarters Air Force directive to merge the Integrated

  • Breaking Barriers Together: Warriors over the Wasatch 2024

    Hill AFB leaders and airshow officials are preparing now to make next year’s air show bigger and better by adding new demonstrations and by focusing on feedback received from 2022’s event. The 2024 air show, happening June 29-30, is centered around the Breaking Barriers Together theme, meaning we

  • The gift of citizenship through service

    For those joining the military without citizenship, they will be green card holders and have legal status. It can take up to three years for green card holders until they can try to naturalize. With approval from their commander, service members now can gain citizenship after a year of serving

  • Ogden ALC achieves ISO 50001 recertification

    The Ogden Air Logistics Complex, a critical hub for the Air Force’s maintenance, repair, overhaul, and sustainment operations, announced this week it has achieved recertification of ISO 50001, the international standard for applying organizational best practices in energy management.

  • Hill Airman competes in Esports Invitational

    Staff Sgt. Tristan Biese with the 2d Audiovisual Squadron participated in the Department of the Air Force Esports Invitational 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, May 27-28.Biese, a video production specialist at Hill was one of 12 gamers representing the DAF and one of six on his team in the professional

  • New F-35 canopy facility provides production boost

    The 531st Commodities Maintenance Squadron officially opened their new 24,000 square-foot F-35 canopy shop in building 850 on May 17, allowing for future forecast needs by tripling the former workspace.The shop meticulously refurbishes to perfection, canopies for the Air Force’s F-35A conventional

  • ECARS reduces vehicle emissions and Hill fees

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center is celebrating a decade of helping installations track vehicle air emissions through its Employee-vehicle Certification and Reporting System, or ECARS.The tool has been estimated to be saving the Air Force more than $11.8 million annually.

  • AFMC top leaders visit Hill AFB

    Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, Air Force Materiel Command commander, and his leadership team visited Hill Air Force Base, Utah, April 11-15 for updates on missions and programs at the installation.

  • Hill Security Forces leverage technology for smoother base entrance

    Drivers heading onto Hill AFB through one of the three main gates have a new way to determine what travel times look like via a recently added feature on Hill’s Air Force Connect App.Members from the 75th Security Forces Squadron saw a need and came up with the Gate Travel Times feature as a way to

  • EOD robots are potential confined space lifesavers

    Generally, Liquid Fuels Maintenance and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians don’t perform duties simultaneously for safety’s sake, but that’s what happened Feb. 8 near building 825 on Hill AFB.To avoid sending a human into a potentially dangerous confined space to perform a structural integrity

  • Commentary: Commit to 'do your part' this MLK Day

    As Dr. King said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moment of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.” Our fellow Airmen — uniformed and civilian, active and reserve component — and our Air Force need us. They