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  • The NASA Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (STTARS), is shown in the air transport configuration about to be on loaded into a C-5 Space Cargo Modified (SCM) aircraft in November 2012 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. At the back is a three axle stinger and rear elevating gooseneck connected to the back of the STTARS container. Connected to the front of the container is the front elevating gooseneck connected to a four axle Tractor. The equipment is necessary to safely load the James Webb space telescope aboard the aircraft with only six inches to spare on each side of the STTARS, which was certified safe for flight by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Air Transportability Test Loading Activity May 15, 2014. (U.S. Air Force photo/John Andersen)

    AFLCMC’s Air Transportability Test Loading Activity reaches to the STTARS in support of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – When cargo including supplies, equipment, vehicles, large animals such as Keiko the killer whale, an elephant named Maggie, or even a multi-billion-dollar space telescope needs to be transported on Air Force aircraft, a lot of thought and coordination goes into preparing the load for shipment and ensuring the
  • Brig. Gen. Sean Farrell will become the Director of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

    Farrell to lead AFSAC

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force officials recently announced that Brig. Gen. Sean Farrell, will become the Director of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate headquartered here.Farrell is currently the Director, Strategic Plans, Programs and Requirements for the Air Force
  • Cynthia Abbott, the director of Logistics and Logistics Services presents Major Jose Perez IV with a Logistics award. Perez was one of many individuals honored for outstanding achievement. (U.S. Air Force photo / Michelle Gigante)

    AFLCMC recognizes top logisticians

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Logistics Directorate held its 5th annual awards ceremony recently, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and recognized logisticians from across the AFLCMC.The annual awards honored individuals and teams who have demonstrated excellence in the field of
  • The CFK is setup and tested on a weekly basis to ensure it is fully functional should it be called upon to provide primary communication support.

    Hanscom Supplies Comms on Demand

    The 386th Expeditionary Communications Squadron trains with a communication fly-away kit for these what-if scenarios. A program office at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, was responsible for gathering requirements from the users in the field. Today, the Theater Deployable Communications office sustains the hardware through warranty repairs and annual software licensing support.

  • Tinker Acquisition Center of Excellence Office Focuses on Customer Service

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma - The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Acquisition Center of Excellence office at Tinker Air Force Base, provides expert advice and hands-on assistance for acquisition and non-acquisition personnel in order to achieve success for their programs, ultimately ensuring the war fighter has the capabilities they
  • Maj. Gen. Sarah Zabel, director of the Air Force’s Information Technology Acquisition Process Development office in the Pentagon, discusses a presentation titled “Air Force Journey to Agile Software Acquisition” Feb. 27 at the New Horizons conference, hosted by the Lexington-Concord Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association in Newton, Mass.

    Agile conquers New Horizons

    Often associated with software development, agile acquisition traces its roots to the private industry technology sector, where it evolved as a way to rapidly build, field, test and rebuild components and applications.
  • Thirty five members of the COBRA DANE System Sustainment Team at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., won the 2017 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics Award at the system level. Their efforts to incentivize the prime contractor resulted in operational dependability and availability, and decreased overall maintenance cost. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Lonnylee Barrett)

    Radar sustainment team earns top honors

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass -- The Office of the Secretary of Defense singled out the COBRA DANE System Sustainment Team at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, for an award for maintaining, sustaining and repairing the stationary COBRA DANE radar.The team won the 2017 Secretary of Defense Performance Based Logistics Award at the system level. Their
  • AFLCMC recognizes top engineers at annual awards ceremony

    AFLCMC recognizes top engineers at annual awards ceremony

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Engineering Directorate held its 2017 Annual Engineering Awards Ceremony Feb. 15, at the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Kenney Hall, with other AFLCMC organizations across the country connected by video teleconference. This year’s event, themed “Advancing the
  • Lockheed Martin and Japanese Air Self-Defense Force personnel work together to taxi in the arrival of the first foreign military sales F-35A onto the 944th Fighter Wing ramp Nov. 28, 2016, at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The arrival marked the next step for the international F-35 training program. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Louis Vega Jr.)

    AFLCMC office serves as the "eBay" of FMS

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Looking for spare parts for that F-16, F-15, C-130, KC-135 and the variety of other aircraft in your inventory? If so, and if you are one of the 109 foreign military partner nations that the Air Force supports, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center headquartered here, has you covered.Through AFLCMC’s Air
  • Capt. Bryon Kroger, left, and 1st Lt. Carlo Viray, right, review combat applications in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Aug. 13, 2017. The officers, who are part of the Air Force’s Air Operations Center Pathfinder acquisition program run out of Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, work with coders in an open workspace environment with civilians who train them on the techniques used by Silicon Valley’s best software programmers. (U.S. Air Force photo by Rick Berry)

    Airmen code for combat in Cambridge

    Kroger’s team is working with a company called Pivotal Labs, which provides people and space to teach Airmen how to code like the workers in Silicon Valley, but for the Department of Defense. Open workspaces found in Cambridge contrast with traditional government workspaces on base with closed cubicles and offices. Their mission is to learn from today’s best tech experts, while delivering custom-built software to warfighters. They are already saving the Air Force fuel, and they have reduced the time it takes AOC warfighters to develop targets by 85 percent, making combat operations more precise and lethal.
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