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  • Aaron Tippin: Country music star at home with Air Force

    A friendship that's been in the making for nearly 20 years will continue on June 26 when country music superstar Aaron Tippin and his band, the Stemwinders, play an hour-long concert at the fifth annual Air Force Materiel Command Freedom's Call Tattoo. The event is free and open to the public, and

  • Successful launch for AFRL TacSat-3 satellite

    The sky lit up briefly over NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., the evening of May 19 as an Air Force Minotaur I rocket launched the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite, NASA's PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA's CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments into a low earth orbit.

  • Stain-resistant boot research still underway

    The Air Force Uniform Office, here, continues its research to find a stain-resistant utility boot that retains the low maintenance of the current sage green boot and is composed of material that will not stain nor absorb workplace chemicals. A request for information, or RFI, was posted on

  • Air Force funds new generation of energy efficient UAVs

    With the ever-increasing military demand to reduce the size and weight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) while lengthening flight times, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is funding a project to integrate solar power cheaply and easily into the base materials used to build them. Dr. Max

  • As Freedom's Call Tattoo grows, so, too, does its technology exhibit

    For some people, their favorite part of Air Force Materiel Command's Freedom's Call Tattoo are the impressive aircraft. For others, it's great music. Still, others go for the dazzling fireworks. And, then, there are people who like to see technology. Which is why, when they visit displays in the

  • After market uniforms present risk

    The Air Force authorized a single "all-season" version of the Airman's Battle Uniform, or ABU, for wear service-wide, making any other version or claims of a "summer weight uniform" unauthorized. The one exception is a 100 percent cotton ABU, which is only authorized for wear in the firefighter and