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  • Kessel Run Pre-Employment Team

    Enterprise hiring effort draws new talent, faster

    AFMC improved its civilian hiring timeliness by 12 percent in fiscal year 2018 and continues to speed up the employment process in FY19. Four major secretary-approved hiring initiatives are providing positive returns, particularly when coupled with continued process improvements in all talent acquisition areas.
  • URT-44

    AFLCMC fielding new Personnel Locator Beacons

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – In an effort to improve aircrew safety and save lives, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Agile Combat Support Directorate headquartered here is fielding 12,000 new personnel locator beacons to aircrews in most fixed wing aircraft across the Air Force fleet.Known as the URT-46, the beacons are being
  • LUNGI, Sierra Leone -- A C-5 Galaxy, with the 301st Airlift Squadron, Travis Air Force Base, Calif., departs for Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, carrying 398th Air Expeditionary Group personnel and equipment that have been supporting efforts in Liberia. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Justin D. Pyle

    Rapid Sustainment Office installs 3D parts on C-5

    DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. – A C-5 Super Galaxy with the tail number 70035 is the latest recipient of hardware produced by the next generation of manufacturing technologies, known as 3D printing or additive manufacturing.After several weeks of printing, inspections, and component testing, the Rapid Sustainment Office recently installed 17 parts in
  • New civic leaders inducted into the Air Force

    New Air Force civic leaders inducted

    More than 40 Air Force civic leaders visited Washington, D.C., Jan. 29-31, for a civic leader conference with the Air Force’s most senior leaders.

  • 2018 Annual Recognition Award winners named

    Staff-level winners of the 2018 Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command Annual Awards were announced during an awards recognition breakfast on Jan. 25, 2019 at the Wright Patterson AFB Club.  -Airman of the Year – Airman 1st Class Rachael Beale, AFMC/Air, Space and Cyberspace Operations-Noncommissioned Officer of the Year – Tech. Sgt. Carlos
  • SOS participant

    Civilian Developmental Education offers opportunities to learn, grow

    The Air Force Civilian Developmental Education program is a portfolio of courses and training designed to address the developmental needs of the civilian workforce at all levels. Programs help civilians to achieve short or long term goals at a level appropriate to their needs and desired path of future growth. These include opportunities for civilians to attain associate through advanced college degrees in Air Force institutions and spots in military professional education programs. Applications for Academic Year 2020 open on March 1.
  • Materiel Leader for the Air Operations Center program Lt. Col. Jeremiah Sanders takes a call at a desk in Project Kessel Run’s Boston office Jan. 10. The office space is open to encourage collaboration and teamwork, with the majority of design and coding done by two-person teams practicing what is called ‘paired programming.”

    AFLCMC aids Kessel Run in recruiting new rebels

    An innovative effort to speed up talent acquisition for the Air Force compressed a months-long employment process to just weeks, when 28 on-the-spot job offers were made to candidates at the Kessel Run hiring event in Boston, Massachusetts held January 23-24.
  • Air Force leaders met with professionals from construction and other industries to begin rebuild of Tyndall AFB.

    Air Force, industry meet to discuss rebuilding Tyndall

    Air Force representatives met with more than 450 industry professionals and community leaders Jan. 31 to begin a dialogue and partnership that will eventually lead to the rebuilding of Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, as an “installation of the future.”
  • EMNS

    New EMNS requires AFMC personnel to update emergency contact information

    An Air Force-wide migration of the Emergency Mass Notification System requires all Air Force Materiel Command military and civilian personnel to take critical steps to update their after-hours contact information for emergency notifications.
  • Actor Jonathan Camp known for StartUp, Six, and American Fright Fest during the filming of a public service announcement Jan. 18, 2019, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Camp along with Dave Kiley from the television show Diesel Brothers on Discovery Channel will appear in two Air Force ads to promote resilience through mental health, alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment, sexual assault prevention and response, family advocacy, and employee assistance. (U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw)

    Air Force, celebrities create PSAs to encourage resiliency

    A couple of Hollywood celebrities will be featured in two upcoming Air Force public service announcements encouraging its workforce to seek help if and when it’s needed. Actors Jonathan Camp known for StartUp, Six, and American Fright Fest, along with Dave Kiley from the television show Diesel Brothers on Discovery Channel will appear in the first two of six ads scheduled for production.
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