June 29, 2021 Test Flag Enterprise integrates autonomy into Orange Flag Orange Flag 21-2 brought in two new objectives to the large force test event: autonomy and Emerald Flag collaboration. The test event hosted by Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing at Edwards AFB, California, occurred June 24, 2021.
June 29, 2021 Digital Directorate team wins major acquisition award The Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force honored a Digital Directorate team with a major acquisition award earlier this month.
June 29, 2021 AFMC launches 2022 Spark Tank competition The 2022 Air Force Materiel Command Spark Tank competition launches July 1, and Airmen can submit their innovative, game-changing ideas to compete through September 1, 2021.
June 29, 2021 NC3 PEO retires after 29-year career Col. Amanda G. Kato, Air Force program executive officer for nuclear command, control and communications (NC3), retired June 18, 2021, at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts. She was dual-hatted as the AFNWC director for NC3 integration.
June 29, 2021 Air Force, Army build on joint contracting operations with JFCE 2021 JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Army and Air Force contracting experts are strengthening joint operations by reviving joint exercises, beginning with the Joint Force Contracting Exercise 2021 June 21-25 at numerous locations.The JFCE, the first Air Force/Army training exercise since 2017, gave
June 29, 2021 New COVID-19 Delta Variant: What you need to know to stay safe A new and increasingly dangerous variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is rapidly sweeping across the globe. This new variant appears to spread faster, cause more severe disease and is more likely to result in hospitalization.Also, younger people appear to be more susceptible to the new strain, known as
June 29, 2021 Big Berthas used to measure laser power The HEL calibration supports the Laser Hardened Materials Evaluation Laboratory (LHMEL) of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright Patterson AFB and the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM.
June 28, 2021 Air Force awards JBSA aquatics training facility contract JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas – The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center awarded a $66.6 million project June 25 to construct a mission-critical aquatics training facility at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, in support of the Battlefield Airmen Training demands. The project is a
June 28, 2021 Air Force rethinks Position, Navigation and Timing WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Strategic Development Planning & Experimentation Office, alongside the Naval Surface Warfare Center took steps forward in April toward making the Air Force’s new Precision, Navigation and Timing (PNT) concept of operations a reality as it
June 25, 2021 Air Force tests child care subletting app The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is testing a mobile app designed to centralize and streamline the subletting of short-term slots at military child development centers this summer.