• WPAFB facility saves the DOD time, millions

    With budgets shrinking and the Department of Defense forced to do more with less, every penny counts when it comes to purchasing new equipment. Personnel at the Rapid Development Integration Facility, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, understand that

  • Pegasus Drogue, Hose and Boom systems deployed

    The KC-46A Pegasus notched another success this week when the systems at the heart of aerial refueling were demonstrated on EMD-2 with the deployment of both drogue systems and the boom.On Thursday, EMD-2 successfully extended the drogue refueling baskets from both the Centerline Drogue System,

  • AFLCMC command chief celebrates 1 year at base

    A grey and misty morning hung over the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center headquarters at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as arrays of colorful umbrellas played Connect the Dots with the two-day-old puddles that led up to the main entrance.The forecast wasn't supposed to change much over the

  • Program Management --"an Art, not a Science," says AFMC commander

    Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command commander, was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Acquisition Insight Focus Days at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenney Hall here June 24, 2015.Organized by the Defense Acquisition University and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the