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  • Battle Management’s Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., is working to ensure the sustainment of Air and Missile Warning command and control systems at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., pictured above, along with the Alternate Missile Warning Center at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and forward-user and sensor sites worldwide. The Division awarded a sustainment task order to the Raytheon Co. at the end of last year for work encompassing operations, maintenance and support to maintain mission integrity. (Courtesy photo)

    Division ensuring vital systems sustained

    Battle Management's Strategic Warning and Surveillance Division here is working to ensure the abilities of the system that warn the president and national command authorities of attacks will be sustainable for the foreseeable future.Officials from the division awarded a $28 million sustainment task order to the Raytheon Co. for work encompassing

  • Crosstalks aimed at improving KC-135 service

    Experts from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the Air Force Reserve, National Guard Bureau and the Legacy Tanker Division conducted a customer support visit to Tinker Air Force Base and at two other bases, March 14-18, to listen to unit concerns regarding KC-135 "Stratotanker" support and logistics.The team, headed by Maj. Gen. Glenn
  • Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold, Air Force Special Operations Command commander, takes a moment to talk with members of the C-130 AFSOC Acceleration Flight during his tour of the production lines at Robins Air Force Base. During the tour, Heithold was briefed on the programmed depot maintenance plan, lessons learned, the production gate flow process and the status of current aircraft on station. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton)

    AFSOC commander to Robins AFB: We trust you

    Due to the work of the C-130 Air Force Special Operations Command Acceleration Flight here, the "quiet professionals" of AFSOC can rest assured that an AC-130 gunship will be at their disposal whenever and wherever the mission calls.During a tour of 560th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron maintenance operations March 22, 2016, Lt. Gen. Bradley
  • John Nicholson, Maintenance Operations Center chief, shows aircraft locations on the Maintenance Operations Center Visualizer. The MOC is a 24/7 operation that assists efforts on the Robins flight line. The MOC's responsibilities are varied, from supporting maintenance professionals with aerospace ground equipment and tracking injuries and incidents, to alerting personnel of inclement weather and keeping eyes on the locations of every aircraft on station. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ed Aspera)

    Center gives 360-degree view of flight line; new software on horizon

    The Robins Maintenance Operations Center is an around-the-clock operation, staffed by former mechanics who are trained to assist with just about any request -- from supporting maintenance professionals with dispatching of aerospace ground equipment, to documenting incidents or injuries, to alerting personnel of inclement weather.  "We are the
  • Wayne Ayer, technical director of the Air Force Sustainment Center Engineering and Technical Management Directorate, brief potential partners from industry, government and academia on the AFSC plan for Innovation Centers at Hill Air Force Base and AFSC's other logistics complexes during a Partnership Symposium March 11. AFSC wants to create agile manufacturing capabilities and collaboration that will improve aircraft maintenance now and in the future. The initiative is the result of a successful pilot program started at Hill in 2015. (Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

    Hill pilot program adopted, expanded across Air Force Sustainment Center

    No one with a career in the military would ever compare it to Silicon Valley, where outside-the-box thinking, flexibility, collaboration and "creative spaces" are the norm. The Air Force Sustainment Center is hoping to change that, in part because of a successful pilot program that began at Hill Air Force Base.The Hill program, termed the "Rapid
  • Terry Li, 402nd Aircraft Maintenance Support Squadron aircraft engineering supervisor, works on a waste service pan with Shawn Coffee, 562nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron aircraft sheet metal worker. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Crayton)

    Keep 'em flying, keep 'em safe

    There are aircraft -- some more than 40 years old -- flying across the sky every day specifically designed and built to preserve our nation's interests here and abroad.  Helping to ensure those aircraft are sustained and flying safely is the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's C-5 Galaxy Division, responsible for the operational support and

  • Hiring surge yields lessons and successes, leaders say

    The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex's "1,000 hires in 100 days" initiative generated a new pool of nearly 1,400 qualified applicants, a welcome outcome for the ongoing hiring surge at one of the country's largest Air Force maintenance depots, officials said."We are extremely pleased with the number of capable candidates who came forward with a
  • Michael Quinn, 566th Electronics Maintenance Squadron mechanic, repairs a C-12 directional gyroscope for the C-130. The squadron is responsible for many of the Air Force’s aviation electronics repairs on the C-130, C-17, F-15, A-10 and other weapons systems. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ray Crayton)

    EMXG deploys science behind AFSC philosophy

    Ensuring accuracy, monitoring and gaining control of production flow, having a clear picture of where assets are, and giving clear expectations to team members -- those are just a few principles deployed in one 402nd Electronics Maintenance Group squadron. While the Air Force Sustainment Center's Art of the Possible has matured in areas like the
  • Rick Barrett, an AMARG sheet metal expert, removes a truss mount’s lower attach bolts as part of the required OW-13 inspection on a C-130E outer wing. The refurbished wing will be sent to Robins AFB, Ga. in support of the M-130H programmed maintenance depot effort. (Air Force photo)

    309th AMARG wing refurbishment key to Special Operations Forces Combat Talon II mission

    Teamwork and ongoing process improvement efforts at the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group resulted in an early shipment of the first of seven refurbished outer wing sets for the MC-130H Combat Talon IIs operated by Air Force Special Operations Command.The 309th AMARG is based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, and is a
  • An Air Force Special Operations Command Airman conducts a pre-flight inspection prior to returning an AC-130 worked on at Robins to its home unit. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tommie Horton)

    Success Here = Success There -- Robins sends first expedited gunship home early

    Behind every successful aircraft production story at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex, there are countless contributions of team members who help make it happen.There's the recent case of an Air Force Special Operations Command's AC-130U gunship that was produced here in a record 100 days -- well under AFSOC's requirement of 152 days. It
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