March 27, 2018 AFMC Airmen, team among winners of 2017 AF nuclear deterrence operations awards Air Force officials recently named the winners of the 2017 Nuclear Deterrence Operations Award and the Nuclear & Missile Operations Award.
March 19, 2018 AFICA captures $1 billion in savings, cost avoidance The Air Force Installation Contracting Agency is using outside the box thinking to help warfighters fulfill the Air Force mission.
March 14, 2018 AFMC Excellence Award winners recognized The Annual Excellence Award Banquet on March 7, 2018, served as the venue to honor Air Force Materiel Command’s top Airmen for 2017.Nominees in nine separate categories -- airman, non-commissioned officer, senior NCO, first sergeant, company grade officer, field grade officer, civilian category I,
March 13, 2018 The Dangers of Opioid Pain Medications Pain is the most common reason people seek medical treatment. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 1 in 10 Americans have chronic pain or pain every day for the preceding three months. When used as directed by your physician, opioid medications safely help control acute pain,
March 9, 2018 Hanscom supplies comms on demand The 386th Expeditionary Communications Squadron trains with a communication fly-away kit for these what-if scenarios.A program office at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, was responsible for gathering requirements from the users in the field. Today, the Theater Deployable Communications office
March 8, 2018 Heads up: 418th FLTS wraps up new pilot display tests The 418th Flight Test Squadron is finishing up tests on a new head-up display for the C-17 Globemaster III this week. The Air Force wants to see if the Replacement Head-Up Display (RHUD) can supplant the legacy display with a newer, more capable version. For the three-week test, the C-17 Integrated
March 6, 2018 Small businesses help DOD solve big challenges NEWTON, Mass. – Addressing the New Horizons conference here Feb. 28, the Air Force Materiel Command director for Small Business Programs spoke about the importance of small business for the defense community and the changes and trends she’s been seeing.“Small businesses are the underpinning of our
March 2, 2018 Agile conquers New Horizons Often associated with software development, agile acquisition traces its roots to the private industry technology sector, where it evolved as a way to rapidly build, field, test and rebuild components and applications.
March 2, 2018 Radar sustainment team earns top honors HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass -- The Office of the Secretary of Defense singled out the COBRA DANE System Sustainment Team at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, for an award for maintaining, sustaining and repairing the stationary COBRA DANE radar. The team won the 2017 Secretary of Defense
Feb. 26, 2018 Airmen code for combat in Cambridge Kroger’s team is working with a company called Pivotal Labs, which provides people and space to teach Airmen how to code like the workers in Silicon Valley, but for the Department of Defense. Open workspaces found in Cambridge contrast with traditional government workspaces on base with closed