• Former gymnasts find balance at Hanscom

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Tiffany Cote hires Hanscom acquisition professionals and her brother, Christopher Lung, helps them develop successful buying strategies.The pair work in the same office and are at the beginning of what they expect to be the kind of long, fulfilling careers the

  • Staff members each play a crucial role to marathon's success

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force Marathon director Brandon Hough, credits the marathon’s success to his staff members and says each member has a vital role in planning the event. Meet the Air Force Marathon staff:Rachael McKinney, events manager, oversees the ancillary events such

  • Rapid acquisition leads to rapid success for Air Force small business partner

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Rapid success in contracting has earned Air Force representatives an invite to the opening of the Nasdaq Stock Market July 3 in New York City.Air Force representatives received the invitation from an Air Force and AFWERX Small Business partner, Vita Inclinata

  • PEOs to churn out acquisition Banshees through training

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Program executive offices at Hanscom established intensive, in-person training for acquisition professionals with entrepreneurs at off-base locations by working with private sector partners.Banshee is a two-week course July 16-26 in Boston designed to build

  • AFMC launches “AFMC We Need” initiative

    In an effort to make certain the Air Force Materiel Command is ideally structured and resourced to support the National Defense Strategy, AFMC leadership has launched an enterprise-wide initiative that will empower its Airmen and civilians to help shape the future of the command.

  • Air Force stands up Air Force Medical Readiness Agency

    In a ceremony Friday at the Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, the Air Force Medical Service stood up a new field operating agency, the Air Force Medical Readiness Agency.Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, Air Force Surgeon General, and Brig. Gen. Mark Koeniger, incoming AFMRA commander,

  • Long awaited launch of NASA’s GPIM mission to use AFRL-developed propellant

    ARLINGTON, Va. – NASA’s Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket early in the morning of June 25. GPIM will use, for the first time in space, a high-performance, environmentally benign “green” fuel developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory

  • AFIT's Center for Space Research and Assurance to host open house

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Center for Space Research and Assurance will host an open house for students interested in astronautical engineering, space systems, hypersonics, software engineering or satellites.The event will be hosted July 17-18, at

  • Britton takes over as PEO for Presidential & Executive Airlift Directorate

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Ryan Britton took leadership of the Presidential & Executive Airlift Directorate during a June 17 ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.Britton replaced then Maj. Gen. Duke Richardson, who was recently promoted to lieutenant general and is now