• Hanscom-managed program helps save Airman's life

    A program managed here that helps gets supplies safely to warfighters recently was used in Afghanistan to help save an Airman's life.The Dynamic Retasking Capability Urgent Operational Need provides the ability for C-17 and C-130J aircraft to be directed to an alternative location with up-to-date

  • AFLCMC awards contract for rapidly deployable air traffic control system

    Officials at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued a $50.6 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract award to Raytheon Co. on April 24 to provide the U.S. Air Force with rapidly deployable air traffic control systems that can be deployed and operated anywhere in the

  • Law enforcement officers keep us safe

    It's Friday night. You've got the sport utility vehicle loaded up, kids and all, on your way to that highly anticipated summer blockbuster movie. You're running slightly behind schedule for the 7 p.m. showing and to make up for lost time, you gradually accelerate until you're exceeding the speed

  • X-51A Waverider achieves history in final flight

    The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a breakthrough in the development of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean on May 1 a little after 10 a.m. Pacific Time. "It was a full mission success," said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force

  • AF awards KC-46A Aircrew Training System contract

    The Air Force today awarded a contract to FlightSafety Services Corporation, taking a major step forward in achieving the service's top acquisition priority - delivering a new aerial refueling capability to the warfighter. The contract, a Fixed Price Incentive Firm (FPIF) and Firm Fixed Price (FFP)

  • Eglin munitions unit creates ammo linker for AFSOC

    A new lighter, mobile 30mm ammo linker system is set for delivery to Air Force Special Operations Command units in May.The 89-pound apparatus that feeds 15 unattached 30mm rounds into MK-15 links via a crank system was created and designed by the Airmen of Eglin's Munitions Materiel Handling

  • Base to conduct quarterly exercise

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials will conduct quarterly exercises April 29-May 3. Several independent, simulated scenarios are planned, ranging from terrorist attacks utilizing a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear agent; to a tornado; to mass casualties; to air piracy; and force

  • Base volunteers help build near-by Habitat for Humanity home

    Dayton Habitat for Humanity held a house dedication ceremony April 24 on State Street in Fairborn about one quarter mile from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Numerous volunteers who took part in the humanitarian project were on hand to see the newly constructed, four-bedroom house. Diane Graham,

  • AFIT wins annual Cost Conscious Culture Award

    The Department of Systems Engineering and Management (ENV) Team of the Graduate School of Engineering and Management at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) won the Air University level C3 (Cost Conscious Culture) Team annual award by saving a total of $344,000 from January to December 2012