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  • Airmen win AF maintenance awards

    Maj. Jose Lasso, the 96th Maintenance Squadron commander, and Senior Airman Mark Blinn, a lead standardization crew member with the 96th Maintenance Group, were recently named 2012 Lt. Gen. Leo Marquez award recipients.The Air Force award is given to maintainers who demonstrate the highest degree of

  • Magnetic levitation track reaches new world record in speed

    The 846th Test Squadron successfully performed its most ambitious test to date on the magnetic levitation track at here, Feb. 7. Members of the 846th were able to use the Maglev track in conjunction with a new propulsion system to reach an astounding speed of more than 500 miles per hour."We went

  • AF names new weapons program executive officer

    Brig. Gen. Scott Jansson was selected to be Maj. Gen. Kenneth Merchant's successor as the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Weapons, Armament Directorate here, according to a Jan. 10 Air Force senior leader announcement. Jansson is currently the commander of Defense Logistics Agency Aviation,

  • Waterproof: Missile retrievers not afraid to dive in

    When the weather channel reports tall waves, mean currents and high winds, the last thing anyone is eager to do is jump into open water.But, for Ray Gallien and Chris Geradine, commercial divers aboard one of three 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron's Missile Retrievers, it sometimes becomes part of the

  • New vision and mission to guide AFMC

    New vision and mission statements are at the foundation of a new command strategy designed to ensure Air Force Materiel Command continues to deliver preeminent support to the warfighter.The command's vision is "one team, delivering capabilities to fly, fight and win ...today and tomorrow." AFMC will

  • Air Force begins testing new pod capability

    The Air Force completed testing this month on a flying wireless router to ground troops with almost instantaneous communications. The biggest difference between the router in most homes and the new flying router... the Air Force's version is attached to a 30mm Gatling gun.The flying router is a new

  • OFP CTF awarded for new F-15E software test program

    The Operational Flight Program Combined Test Force was recently recognized with the nationally prestigious Ferguson Award for Engineering. OFP CTF was given the award for developing F-15 aircraft modernization system, Suite 7E."The F-15 is still one of the premier aircraft systems the Air Force

  • New F-16 software platform to be tested by 40th, 85th

    For the first time ever, developmental testing for an F-16 operational flight program will occur at the 40th Flight Test Squadron here.The testing for Block 40 and 50 model F-16s is scheduled to begin in 2014 and will also be the first time developmental testing and operational testing of the OFP