• USAFSAM readies operational mental health care providers

    The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine has set up Air Force’s first operational training program for embedded mental health care providers and technicians, preparing them to join Integrated Operational Support teams.

  • New podcast targets Air Force contracting, acquisition fields

    “The Contracting Experience” is a new Air Force Materiel Command podcast for the contracting workforce that provides insight into evolving issues, high-performance leadership and lessons from the field through conversations with acquisition influencers and Contracting leaders.

  • Program manager wins DOD level award for work with Tanker fleet

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., -- When Samantha Sumner was first notified that she had won the prestigious David O. Cooke Excellence in Public Administration award, she didn’t believe it. With less than seven years of experience working for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Legacy Tanker

  • Dayton area Saturdays in October

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Autumn leaves and cooler weather have returned to the Dayton area but outdoor activities continue throughout the month ahead. From family events to fall festivals, there is much ado about many things on Saturdays in October.October 13The Dayton Motorcycle Club

  • Snow Parade exhibits a show of force against winter elements

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Wright-Patterson 88th Air Base Wing Civil Engineering Group showcased its winter weather strength on the base flight line October 3, presenting an array of trucks with brushes, shovels, solvents, and other inclement weather cleaners. Ground crews drove

  • Contracting office helps base fill goods, services needs

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – With approximately 27,000 inhabitants, a grocery store, banks, hospital, police force, restaurants and movie theater, etc., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is often compared to a mid-size city.A key player in the successful operation of the “city” is the Air

  • Inventive tools track technical tweaks

    Acquisition professionals at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, are ditching Excel, manually-tracked comment resolution matrices, emails and clunky SharePoint workflow systems for cheap, cloud-hosted software solutions field-tested and implemented by the U.S. Navy’s Undersea Warfare Center.

  • Bradley returns to Hanscom

    Joe Bradley joined the Senior Executive Service Sept. 27, and now leads the engineering workforce and cyber resiliency office at Air Force Life Cycle Management Center-Hanscom.

  • The power of one small basic research investment

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- A small basic research investment by the Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, has created a community of origami researchers who in six short years have transitioned to working on applied technologies for the Air