7 Sep 2021

Air Force repurposes condemned F-35 aircraft for training aids

Airmen here are currently involved in transforming a condemned F-35A Lightning II into sectional training aids for use during instruction of F-35 maintainers.

7 Sep 2021

Hill AFB Airman awarded AFSA Airman of the Year

Four days after arriving at Hill Air Force Base, Senior Airman Lelauni Sanders was in a commissary checkout line when a senior master sergeant unexpectedly reached out, swiped a card to pay for her groceries and told her not to worry about it. He asked her instead to come to a meeting.

7 Sep 2021

Resilience: Adapting to adversity

When something goes wrong, are you able to push through or do you feel like you are frozen? Resilience is the ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress.

7 Sep 2021

Hanscom employees win DOD, DAF Small Business honors

Two Air Force Life Cycle Management Center employees here were recently named top Department of Defense and Air Force small business professionals for 2020. The honors recognize their outstanding efforts to respond to mission need amid pandemic challenges.

7 Sep 2021

Civil engineers encourage workforce to ‘prepare to protect’

Base civil engineers encourage members of the community to observe National Preparedness Month throughout September. The theme for this year is “Prepare to Protect. Preparing for disasters is protecting everyone you love.”

6 Sep 2021

September is National Suicide Prevention Month

"If you see something, say something and do something."

3 Sep 2021

DAF announces mandatory COVID vaccine implementation guidelines for Airmen, Guardians

Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall has released a service implementation plan that requires Airmen and Guardians to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the following dates, unless seeking an exemption.

3 Sep 2021

AFWERX drives innovation through flightline ops challenge

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- Innovators and thought leaders from industry, academia and the federal government gathered at the AFWERX Innovation Hub in Las Vegas, Nevada, late last month to review technologies that will be a part of the Revolutionizing Flightline Operations AFWERX Challenge. This effort is a sequel to last year’s Base of the

3 Sep 2021

India, US sign Air-Launched UAV Co-Development Project Agreement

Air Vice Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari, Indian Air Force, Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Plans, and Brig. Gen. Brian R. Bruckbauer, Director of the Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation (AFSAC) Directorate for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, signed a landmark agreement recently to co-develop air-launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV).

3 Sep 2021

AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate granted patent for innovative control surfaces technology

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate recently secured a patent for their control surface technology after successfully developing and demonstrating additively manufactured, multi-material conformal control surfaces for aircraft wings.  “This technology is a method