• Wright-Patt, Dayton VA medical centers work to combat PTSD

    The Wright-Patterson and Dayton VA medical centers are working together and separately to create greater understanding and awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder as well as other mental health challenges.Noting their efforts is important during June, which is National PTSD Awareness Month, with

  • Parents of special needs child define resiliency

    Editor's note: Having the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change is the definition of resilience, and that's something the Air Force wants all personnel to have as they deal with the stress that is part of their daily lives as they support the Air Force mission. Resilience

  • Base historian captures Air Force-level recognition

    Randy Bergeron, installation historian, has earned a share of the Dennis F. Casey Award for Excellence in Periodic History in the Albert S. Simpson Category for co-authoring the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's periodic history last year.Bergeron was recognized for superior historical

  • Education Partnership Agreement provides collaboration opportunities

    A recently signed Education Partnership Agreement between Hanscom and the George J. Kostas Research Institute for Homeland Security at Northeastern University grants new research and educational collaboration opportunities for the Air Force Life Cycle Management programs here.The three-year

  • New PEO for C3I&N shares priorities, highlights workforce importance

    The new PEO for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks, or C3I&N, Maj. Gen. Dwyer L. Dennis, recently shared some areas he'll be looking to focus on as he takes on this role.Cyber vulnerabilities and resiliency are areas he wants to draw more attention to. He previously had been

  • Conference highlights challenges facing acquisition workforce

    Acquisition leaders and professionals from across the country gathered on the campus of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenney Hall here June 14-15 to discuss important issues facing the acquisition community during the 2016 Acquisition Insight Days.The symposium offered the rare opportunity

  • Best ideas invited in first AFLCMC Innovation Challenge

    Lt. Gen. John Thompson, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, is behind a competition that may yield ideas large and small, resulting in changes to the ways the multi-site center works -- for the better.Between now and July 16, all active-duty military members and civilians throughout

  • BES Welcomes the Air Force Small Business Director

    Mark S. Teskey, the Air Force Director of Small Business (SB) Programs, visited on June 14 to meet with Col. Michael W. Jiru Jr., Deputy Director of Business and Enterprise Systems (BES), and Denise Baylor, the BES Director of Small Business Programs.Jiru and Teskey had an open door discussion

  • 88th Air Base Wing Welcomes New Commander

    The 88th Air Base Wing welcomed a new commander June 21 as Col. Bradley McDonald assumed command from Colonel John Devillier during a change of command ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.More than 400 people attended the ceremony, presided by Lt. Gen. John F. Thompson,

  • DLA is more than a printer for the Department of Defense

    As a field activity of the Defense Logistics Agency, DLA Document Services has been serving the Department of Defense for more than 60 years.While some refer to the organization as the DoD's printer, it offers much more than that basic description implies.While DLA Document Services provides