• Nature's hazard: Storms

    Summer has arrived and with it brings the threat of severe storms. Each year the United States averages around 10,000 thunderstorms, and each thunderstorm typically produces heavy rain for 30 minutes to an hour.  According to the National Weather Service, severe thunderstorms are officially defined

  • AgilePod Flies on U.S. Air Force MQ-9

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – In March 2018, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Sensors Program Office, working jointly with the AFLCMC Medium Altitude Unmanned Aerial Systems Program Office, sponsored three demonstration flights of an MQ-9 Reaper with AgilePod.The flights were a

  • Aircraft milk stool revamp on the way - saving money, preventing injuries

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Amidst its latest efforts to cut costs and prevent injuries to Airmen around the globe, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Junior Force Warfighter Operations team has a new project.Their target?  A piece of aircraft support equipment known around the force as

  • School’s out for summer; who’s watching your kids?

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – School’s out for summer; however, many parents still have to work, and their older children are oftentimes left in charge of their younger siblings.The National Safety Council designates June as National Safety Month, and being safe is a planned and

  • Wright-Patt firefighters find support from their peers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The firefighters here and at other federal fire stations hold special expertise that sets them apart from their counterparts. Not only are the firefighters at Wright-Patterson AFB required to know how to provide assistance to an array of facilities such as

  • AFLCMC Commander visits AFMETCAL, holds All Call

    HEATH, Ohio – Lt. Gen. Robert McMurry, commander of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, recently visited the Air Force Metrology and Calibration (AFMETCAL) program here, to meet with employees, tour work sections and hold an All Call.Located on the site of the former Newark Air Force Base,

  • HC-130J crew visits program office

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – An HC-130J crew with the 88th Test and Evaluation Squadron out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, recently flew into Wright-Patterson AFB to meet with and allow members of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s HC/MC Program Office to tour the aircraft.

  • New interns receive AFMC welcome

    More than 130 new interns were introduced to careers in civil service by the Air Force Materiel Command commander at the start of the Premier College Intern Program Symposium June 4 at the Hope Hotel, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. A Secretary of the Air Force initiative, the PCIP is focused