July 25, 2024 Tinker AFB receives $300,000 from OG&E for achieving energy savings milestone Tinker Air Force Base received more than $300,000 from Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, recently, for achieving significant energy savings.
July 23, 2024 AFIMSC comptroller app gives time back to Airmen, Guardians The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center’s Financial Management Directorate has a new app that’s saving comptroller customers time and eliminating the frustration of sitting in waiting areas for appointments.
July 23, 2024 574th CMXS making old new again The 574th Commodities Maintenance Squadron Structural Repair Flight ensures C-130 and F-15 aircraft fuel bladders are always available and ready to be put back into the hands of the warfighter.
July 22, 2024 Purdue University, AFRL Regional Network – Midwest collaborate on solid rocket fuel project Researchers at Purdue University, with support from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, have filed a patent disclosure to develop solid fuels for rotating detonation engines.
July 22, 2024 Test Wing’s first assigned C-130 arrives The 417th FLTS fly, maintain and test C-130 variants from multiple major command and nation partners for missions such as special operations, combat search and rescue, tactical mobility and close air support. Until now, the unit didn’t have any aircraft directly assigned to it.
July 19, 2024 AFGSC’s local business partnerships boost DAF technological capabilities, modernization efforts Another win for DAF & American small businesses! To date the partnership between AFGSC and local small businesses have secured contracts totaling $240 million of outside AFGSC funding for 70 modernization technologies from U.S. small businesses, with an additional $74.3 million in pending contracts.
July 18, 2024 Eglin STEM pipeline is striking it rich The U.S. Air Force’s largest Major Range Test Facility Base (MRTFB) Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medical (STEM+M) recruitment pipeline is tapped and flowing to recruit, retain, and develop future scientists, engineers, and skilled technical workers.
July 18, 2024 Have STRAINger Things”: trilateral partnership results in new Test Instrumentation capabilities The United States Air Force Test Pilot School’s research division, in partnership with the 586th Flight Test Squadron at Holloman AFB and NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center, recently conducted a flight test campaign verifying the use of the new AgilePod.
July 18, 2024 Cultivating Tomorrow's Cyber Defenders The 402nd Software Engineering Group is a key player in cyberspace operations – providing design, development, updates, on-site engineering support and more to correct software issues and improve avionics systems.
July 18, 2024 AFWERX Integration Prime accelerates innovation at USEUCOM's BRAVO 101 Hackathon AFWERX Integration Prime facilitated collaboration and spurred innovation at the U.S. European Command BRAVO 101 Hackathon in Stuttgart, Germany, June 3–10, 2024.