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  • Army, Air Force partners talk bomb demand, capacity

    The Air Force executive responsible for the planning and execution of lifecycle activities for air-delivered munitions recently spent a day here touring the facility and talking to Army officials about the requirements of the joint force and bomb production capacity.Brig. Gen. Shaun Q. Morris,

  • 53 WG activates F-35 Partner Support Complex

    The 53rd Wing activated the F-35 Partner Support Complex here May 11 in a ceremony at the Bayview Club.Robert Kraus assumed the new position as F-35 PSC director, making it the first civilian-led unit in the 53rd Wing. Kraus, a lieutenant colonel, served as the 68th Electronic Warfare Squadron

  • Eglin wings help with B-52 weapons bay testing

    The B-52 Joint Direct Attack Munition Internal Weapons Bay Upgrade program recently completed developmental test here where it successfully demonstrated employment of JDAM munitions from the new Conventional Rotary Launcher.Prior to this added capability, hardware and software limitations restricted

  • Air Force team wins at inaugural D3 summit

    An Air Force team originating from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., recently won an award at the inaugural Defense, Diplomacy and Development Innovation Summit Pitch Challenge, organized jointly by the Defense Department, State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development here.Staff Sgt.

  • Reaper continues legacy of RPA firsts at WSEP

    (EDITOR'S NOTE:  Due to ISR and Holloman AFB policy regarding the MQ-9, the last names of maintenance, operations and intelligence personnel are removed.)The MQ-9 Reaper demonstrated a wide range of weapons capability firsts during the air-to-ground Weapon System Evaluation Program here from March

  • Army fires Stinger missile from new launch platform

    The U.S. Army successfully fired a Stinger missile from its newest launch platform, here, March 23. The missile was fired as part of a demonstration of the Army's new Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-Intercept platform's multi-mission launcher. The new, first-of-its-kind, MML is

  • AFMC to help AF reach future defense strategy

    Agility and innovation are cornerstones of a new Air Force Materiel Command strategic plan that will deliver war-winning capabilities.  Those capabilities will propel the Air Force as a key element of the future national defense strategy known as the Third Offset.The first "offset" came in in the