• AFSOC Commander directs CV-22 operational standdown

    Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, AFSOC Commander, directed an operational standdown of the Air Force CV-22 fleet December 6, 2023 to mitigate risk while the investigation continues on the November 29, 2023 CV-22 mishap near Yakushima, Japan.

  • Data consolidation project enhances Air Force munitions logistics tracking

    Organizations at Hill Air Force Base played a key role in completing a data consolidation project that will enhance the logistics tracking and management of munitions across the Air Force. The project, which was initiated in response to a 2020 Headquarters Air Force directive to merge the Integrated

  • CIPS Implementation for Gunter Business and Enterprise Systems

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s (AFLCMC) Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate is currently working on implementing the Cyberspace Infrastructure Planning System (CIPS), an Air Force Approved Information System (AIS), to replace an internally developed requirement tracking

  • From sunrise past sunset: a day with CMSAF Bass

    Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne Bass represents the highest enlisted level of leadership, and consequently, works a demanding schedule providing direction for the enlisted force and representing their interests. One of the many ways Bass fulfills this duty to Airmen is by traveling across

  • First Sergeant's Corner: Perspective

    This month's AFMC connect is about perspective. Perspective is the ability to perceive things in their actual comparative importance. In other words, the lens through which you see everything through determines how you view yourself, others, and everything around you. Perspectives are built on life

  • DAF to increase transparency, accountability in sexual misconduct cases

    The Department of the Air Force began publishing the nature and results of sexual misconduct disciplinary actions on installation websites across the Air Force and Space Force on Dec. 1, 2023. This change supports a Department of Defense effort to promote greater transparency and accountability in