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  • Team creating digital copy of B-1 Bomber

    WICHITA, Kan. – With a top speed of 900 miles per hour, a payload of 75,000 pounds, and numerous successful operations over the past 30-plus years, the B-1B Lancer is arguably one of the most lethal aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory.In an effort to keep the aircraft flying and operational,

  • Eglin AFB Weapons Group awards COVID-19 contract in record time

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida (AFLCMC) - The Air Force is all in when it comes to helping America battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The novel coronavirus has claimed more than one million lives worldwide, including more than 200,000 Americans.Moving fast during crisis is nothing new for the U.S.

  • ‘AFMC We Need’ continues to drive change

    One year after its launch, the Air Force Materiel Command 'AFMC We Need' initiative continues to drive success across the mission, bringing positive change and improvements, moving the command closer to the ideal set in motion by the operation’s pursuit.

  • Armament Directorate kicks off Weapons Pitch Day

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida – In an effort to find technologies that support the Air Force’s priorities of reach, affordable mass, autonomous collaboration, sensing and communications, non-kinetic effects and digital engineering, the Armament Directorate recently kicked off Phase I of its Weapons

  • Division moves hypobaric altitude chamber to Lackland

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Agile Combat Support Directorate’s Simulators Division, recently spearheaded an effort to relocate a hypobaric altitude chamber from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida to the 344th Training Squadron Career Enlisted Aviator Center of Excellence hangar at

  • Program Office leads efforts to keep B-2 in flight

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – With the ability to fly 6,000 nautical miles without refueling, travel at high subsonic speeds, and reach any part of the world within hours, the Air Force’s B-2 Spirit – the nation’s only stealth bomber – is often first to the fight.With only 20 B-2s in the

  • B-2 Program Office wins prestigious acquisition awards

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s B-2 Program Office was recently recognized with the 2019 Dr. James G. Roche Sustainment Excellence Award, as well as the 2019 David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award.Named after the 20th Secretary of the Air

  • F-22 Program Transfer to Hill AFB

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Today, the Air Force will complete the transfer of the F-22 program from Wright Patterson AFB, OH to Hill AFB, UT.  This transfer reaffirms the Air Force’s commitment, and coupled with the transfer of the Product Support Manager position from Wright Patterson

  • AFLCMC awards Skyborg second phase

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has completed the second phase of awards for the Skyborg Prototyping, Experimentation and Autonomy Development (SPEAD) multiple indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract.  This round adds AeroVironment

  • Family first, with an eye always on the mission

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) - “I was vaguely aware of ROTC,” laughs Maj. Jazmyn Hyman, Program Manager for AFLCMC. “I had a friend who did Air Force JROTC [in high school] and we ran track and cheered together, but I was totally oblivious. I didn’t have anyone close to me that had served.