• Presidential fleet to receive communication upgrade

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A team from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Presidential & Executive Airlift Directorate has begun fleet-wide satellite communication (SATCOM) upgrades on aircraft supporting the President and other Executive Department leaders.The U.S. Air Force

  • Tanker Directorate team installs ADS-B Out on KC-135 fleet

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFLCMC) – The U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker fleet has received the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Out (ADS-B Out) upgrade, thanks to the efforts of a team led by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Tanker Directorate. The ADS-B Out program

  • AFLCMC acquires new Air Force handgun

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFLCMC) – Combat Arms units across the Air Force are getting new and improved 9mm caliber handguns to replace the M9 pistols that have been in service since 1985.The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Small Arms Program Office acquired approximately

  • Air Force awards contract for improved Female Body Armor

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Female Fitment Program Office has awarded a contract to begin production and development for body armor designed to better protect female Airmen during combat and contingency operations.Finding uniform items and gear

  • AFSAC awards $524 million construction contract

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate’s Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Construction Division recently awarded a $524 million contract to a joint venture between Bahadir Construction Engineering Contracting and Trading Company & Impresa

  • Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office to launch sustainment innovation hub

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) is changing how the Air Force delivers new and emerging technology to the Sustainment Enterprise. The RSO’s latest initiative is the creation of the Identify-Apply-Scale (IAS), a first-of-its-kind capability devoted

  • Schmidt cites C3I&N covid-era achievements, productivity

    Maj. Gen. Michael Schmidt, program executive officer for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks, headquartered here, provided an update on his portfolio during a virtual meeting with members of the Hanscom Representatives Association June 10.

  • Lab testing medical equipment in new isolation container prototypes

    JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. (AFLCMC) – The lab responsible for ensuring that medical equipment is safe to operate and fly on Air Force aircraft is currently in the process of testing, collecting, and analyzing data on how medical devices perform inside the Negatively Pressurized Conex (NPC) and NPC

  • Colonel practices Excellence through Servant Leadership

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC) -- One of the Air Force’s ongoing challenges in the information age, has been how to ensure its myriad of weapon systems continue to function effectively within increasingly cyber contested environments. After all, if adversaries somehow manage to disrupt or stop

  • SALT participants complete intensive leadership development program

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFLCMC) – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center continues to develop the next generation of leaders ready to lead teams in solving our most complex life cycle programmatic challenges.Recently, the second cohort of the Senior Acquisition Leadership Team or