Aug. 3, 2018 Hill AFB Airmen, aircraft progress together as F-35A program matures Two years after the Air Force declared initial operational capability for the F-35A Lightning II, pilots and maintainers at Hill Air Force Base’s active duty 388th and reserve 419th Fighter Wings are steadily erasing the word “initial” from in front of “operational capability.”
Aug. 3, 2018 Air Reserve TFSC call center agents take on 24-hour operations Effective Aug. 1, the Air Reserve Personnel Center’s call center will centralize at the Air Force's Personnel Center call center at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. With this centralization, ARPC’s more than 1.3 million customers will now have access to Total Force Service Center call agents
Aug. 2, 2018 Air Force charts course for next generation ISR dominance Today the Air Force released the Next Generation Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Dominance Flight Plan, an encompassing strategy about how the service maintains and enhances decisive advantage amidst the reemergence of great power competition and rapid technological change in the
Aug. 2, 2018 Around the Air Force: Aug. 2 On this look Around the Air Force, 16 years after making the ultimate sacrifice Tech. Sgt. John A. Chapman will be posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and Pacific Air Forces welcomes a new commander. Hosted by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Koetz.
Aug. 2, 2018 Wingmen Connect initiative aims to create healthier, more resilient Airmen About three and a half years ago, after an Airman realized her coworkers needed guidance she was unable to provide, she developed an idea.
Aug. 1, 2018 Air Force administers new fitness prototype at Dover AFB The Air Force Exercise Science Unit at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas, traveled to Dover Air Force Base to further its development of the Tier 2 Physical Fitness Test Prototype.
Aug. 1, 2018 Sprint to 83 percent: AFIMSC leads culture change in world of budget execution The Air Force exceeded 83 percent budget execution by July 31 this year in the installation and mission support portfolio, the achievement wasn’t about reaching some arbitrary milestone. Instead, it displayed a change in culture.
July 31, 2018 AF officials choose eight officers for DoD fellows program Air Force officials have selected eight active-duty officers for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Service Chiefs’ Fellows Program. DARPA serves as the Department of Defense’s central research and development agency and makes pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies to support
July 30, 2018 AFCEC launches dashboard to share status of military construction projects A new tool, known as MILCONnect, provides an efficient way for the Air Force Civil Engineer Center Facility Engineering Directorate to share MILCON project information with its stakeholders around the world.
July 30, 2018 Technical sergeant promotion cycle correction Following the recent technical sergeant/18E6 promotion cycle release and Airmen expressing concerns about selection rates in the Refueling/Bomber Aircraft Maintenance (2A5X4) Air Force Specialty Code, the Air Force’s Personnel Center identified 57 Airmen in that AFSC with an ‘A’ shred-out