• Gourds to fly above Wright-Patt at 14th Annual Pumpkin Chuck Nov. 2

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Teams and individuals are scheduled to launch a hundred pumpkins, thousands of feet at the 14th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck slated for the grounds behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force Nov. 2 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Entry to the

  • Obenland Memorial Award commemorates engineer, hero

    An engineering officer at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, is the recipient of the 2018 Roland R.Obenland Memorial Award. The award honors a company grade engineering officer with less than seven years of total active commissioned service who exhibits

  • Program manager wins DOD level award for work with Tanker fleet

     TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla., -- When Samantha Sumner was first notified that she had won the prestigious David O. Cooke Excellence in Public Administration award, she didn’t believe it.  With less than seven years of experience working for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Legacy Tanker

  • Contracting office helps base fill goods, services needs

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – With approximately 27,000 inhabitants, a grocery store, banks, hospital, police force, restaurants and movie theater, etc., Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is often compared to a mid-size city.A key player in the successful operation of the “city” is the Air

  • Inventive tools track technical tweaks

    Acquisition professionals at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, are ditching Excel, manually-tracked comment resolution matrices, emails and clunky SharePoint workflow systems for cheap, cloud-hosted software solutions field-tested and implemented by the U.S. Navy’s Undersea Warfare Center.