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  • AFMC announces, honors annual award winners

    Air Force Materiel Command honored its top Airmen of 2015 during the command's Annual Excellence Awards Banquet March 9, 2016.Fifty-eight Airmen from throughout AFMC's headquarters, centers and wings were nominated to compete in nine separate categories -- airman, non-commissioned officer, senior

  • Civilian Health Promotion Services celebrates 10-year anniversary

    Throughout 2016, Civilian Health Promotion Services will celebrate its 10-year anniversary of providing health and wellness services to Air Force Materiel Command's workforce. The CHPS program began in 2006 in collaboration with Federal Occupational Health to maintain a healthy and productive

  • Air Force announces new AFMC executive director

    Air Force officials announced March 3, 2016, the assignment of Patricia M. Young as the executive director of Air Force Materiel Command. She is currently the Director, Washington Headquarters Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. The command's current executive

  • Warner Robins ALC vital to AFSOC mission

    When you're leading troops across unpredictable terrain or taking fire from enemy forces, it's comforting to know an Air Force AC-130U gunship has got your six from somewhere above.The mission of these "Spooky" gunships -- operated by Air Force Special Operations Command -- is so critical overseas

  • Super Bowl air coverage provided by U.S. Air Force

    There will be Panthers and there will be Broncos in this Sunday's Super Bowl 50 -- but F-15s? Thanks, in part, to work done at Robins, the answer is a resounding yes. The teams won't be the only ones commanding a presence during one of the country's most anticipated annual sporting events. So, if

  • BACN hits 100,000 hours of ensuring connectivity for warfighters

    A program managed here to ensure warfighters can stay connected despite differing networks and austere environments recently reached a significant milestone and is also on a path to keep moving forward.The Battlefield Airborne Communications Node, more commonly known as BACN, reached 100,000 combat

  • Recapitalizing JSTARS: the radar

    For more than two decades, the Air Force's Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System has provided valuable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to commanders by detecting, locating and tracking enemy ground forces from afar.Identified as the service's fourth largest acquisition

  • KC-46A Pegasus conducts 1st in-flight refueling demonstration

    The KC-46A Pegasus successfully transferred fuel through its boom to an F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter Jan. 24, 2016, to demonstrate aerial refueling operations in advance of its first production decision later this spring.The Pegasus passed 1,600 pounds of fuel to an F-16 piloted by Lt. Col. Daniel

  • Recapitalizing JSTARS: the airframe

    Of all the components going into the new JSTARS weapon system, the most noticeable -- at least at a glance -- is the airframe.For the past two years, a specialized team at Hanscom AFB has been hard at work researching and learning about the various aircraft in today's marketplace -- all in an effort