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  • 723d AMXS, Army depot rebuild Pave Hawk

    Airmen from the 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron along with machinists from the Corpus Christi Army Depot conducted a full-structural tear down and restoration on an HH-60G Pave Hawk. Once the aircraft was torn down, Airmen and the machinists performed repairs on all of its components prior to

  • NDI Airmen acquire new X-ray system

    The 20th Equipment Maintenance Squadron nondestructive inspection flight received game-changing equipment in January.The equipment, which is a next-generation X-ray processing system, is projected to provide the numerous agencies at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, served by the nondestructive

  • Analyst eliminates threats faster through innovative targeting

    In the field of missile targeting, Staff Sgt. Sean, mobile missile targeting analyst, 20th Intelligence Squadron, is one of the most innovative and motivated members of 25th Air Force. As a member of the Ballistic Missile Projects Team, Sean developed mobile missile targeting strategies, led the

  • Smart automation, AI to accelerate materials discovery, innovation

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --To meet the demands of the ever-increasing pace of technological development in order to create the next generation of Air Force technology, researchers are challenged to find ways to shrink the timeline for materials discovery, development and

  • AFREP saves millions in funding

    When an Air Force asset is deemed unusable, there is a select group of experts that step in to breathe new life into the component; these professionals use their wide range of skills and resources to tinker with objects that would otherwise be tossed away, giving other units a chance to save time

  • Artificial intelligence proves beneficial for ISR data interpretation

    The 526th Intelligence Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada recently hosted an Artificial Intelligence and Design Thinking seminar at AFWERX Vegas. Event Guest Speaker Chief Master Sgt. Ian, superintendent of the 9th Intelligence Squadron at Beale AFB, California, introduced more than 100

  • F-35 completes most comprehensive flight test program in aviation history

    The F-35 Integrated Test Force, based at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, has completed more than 65,000 test points, 9,200 test flights, and six major test aircraft detachments on board L-class and Nimitz class carriers on both U.S. coasts.

  • COMACC releases memo on Bringing the Future Faster

    The Commander of Air Combat Command, Gen. Mike Holmes recently released a memorandum outlining his third and final priority, it discusses ACC's desire to accelerate the pace of changes to programs and policies, and it highlights ACC's development priorities in three broad areas: multi-domain

  • AGOW celebrates 10 years, looks to future

    Since 2008, the 93d Air Ground Operations Wing has been on the front lines of the global war against terrorism providing ground combat forces specially trained to integrate air and space power into the joint scheme maneuver.As the AGOW Spartans celebrate their 10th anniversary, they usher in changes

  • Airmen code for combat in Cambridge

    Kroger’s team is working with a company called Pivotal Labs, which provides people and space to teach Airmen how to code like the workers in Silicon Valley, but for the Department of Defense. Open workspaces found in Cambridge contrast with traditional government workspaces on base with closed

  • Airman opens door for innovation

    Innovative Airmen allow the Air Force to bring the future faster, and one master sergeant is trying to revamp the way rocket propellant is cleaned off the flightline.Master Sgt. Terri Adams, 23d Civil Engineer Squadron emergency management section chief, won the Air Combat Command’s level of the Air

  • Airman finds solution to unsolvable problem

    When Airmen at the 363rd Intelligence and Surveillance Squadron discovered an issue with the three dimensional functionality on computer workstations vital to target analysts, one of their own highly-skilled Airmen found a solution and prevented $100,000 in equipment from becoming useless.

  • 595th SCS Airmen participate in DOD-Silicon Valley partnership

    Picture a room. There are four pilots in flight suits, busy at work – one scribbling on a white board, two moving magnetic pucks around next to the scribbles and the last drawing out equations on graph paper. The room, located in the Combined Air operations Center at Al Udeid, Qatar, is tense.

  • WEPTAC 2018: Developing Multiple-Domain Tactics to Support Air Ops

    The Air Combat Command’s Directorate of Operations in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center hosted the 2018 Combat Air Force Weapons and Tactics Conference (CAF WEPTAC) from Jan. 2 to 12 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.WEPTAC provides a unique opportunity for combat air force tactical

  • AFWERX is smart risk for innovative solutions

    Historically, the Air Force has remained the world’s preeminent air and space fighting force by forging innovators from within the ranks, empowering them to problem solve and providing them the resources to do so.  Today, the Air Force is formally expanding this call for innovation through the

  • New process improves vehicle maintenance turnaround time

    The vehicle management flight of the 55th Logistics Readiness Squadron recently received the 55th Wing Innovator award for creating a process that dramatically decreased the amount of time it takes to return vehicles turned in for maintenance back to customers.

  • 1970's era alert system being replaced

    Offutt will soon be one of the first bases to replace a legacy Klaxon alert system that has been used here since the early 1970’s.The system plays a vital role in notifying Offutt alert aircrews who must be ready to respond to worldwide threats at a moments notice.“It’s an alert system that when

  • 347th Rescue Group initiates new medical, survival training

    Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists and Independent Duty Medical Technicians recently partnered to innovate a more realistic training experience for 23d Wing aircrew.The training is designed to merge many smaller courses into one three-day course that seamlessly ties together

  • ISR Squadron leads Air Force in language programs

    Over 200 military and civilian employees, three days, and one mission … chose the best language program in the Air Force. The victor? A squadron from the 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing.

  • First MQ-9 model build: An Airman innovation

    When Master Sgt. Eric took his senior NCO creed he promised to serve beyond the call of duty and take care of those following in his footsteps. He has kept his promise by innovating and making life easier for his Airmen across the MQ-9 enterprise.

  • AFwerX Vegas opens new doors to innovation

    The men and women of the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center will once again be on the leading edge of testing, tactics, and training innovation, establishing the force’s most ambitious knowledge outreach program to date. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson announced the launch of AFwerX during her

  • New equipment gives Airmen time to breathe

    After a pilot completes their Initial Aerospace Physiology Training they occasionally go through a refresher course to maintain their flying status. In order to complete the course aircrew work with the 9th Physiological Support Squadron for a variety of reasons, including a hypoxia demonstration.

  • Air Force energy program saves Moody thousands

    Whether its pilots utilizing the runway at night or Airmen walking to the base gym before dawn, over the course of a year, Team Moody has experienced noticeably brighter paths.During the 23d Civil Engineer Squadron’s $3.6 million repair and replacement project, they improved the entire

  • AFTAC, University of Texas to partner on nuclear forensics research

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center will soon be collaborating with the University of Texas at Austin to conduct research in the field of nuclear forensics.Sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, the Nuclear Forensics Research Award establishes

  • Electronic Warfare – The Wild Boars

    Recently, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. Wilson visited the 390th Electronic Combat Squadron, a geographically-separated unit of Mountain Home Air Force Base, working out of Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.During his visit, Wilson attended an electronic warfare symposium as

  • Moody CSAR helps Air Force Research Lab reduce risks

    The Air Force Research Laboratory from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and the Baltimore U.S. Air Force Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, recently observed the 347th Rescue Group’s Combat Search and Rescue mission.

  • MQ-9 maintainer’s innovation expedites engine training

    In order to enable airpower, the Air Force calls upon skilled and competent maintainers to perform all required functions to keep aircraft at the ready. This means maintainers must be properly trained to keep the mission going, so when Master Sgt. Eric, 432nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Reaper

  • 'AFREP-airing' equipment saves funds

    Rows of electronics and tools line the shelves of a spacious work center where a group of Airmen sit among pieces of equipment in need of repair.The technicians assigned to the 20th Maintenance Group Air Force Repair Enhancement Program shop are tasked with effectively repairing damaged items in an

  • Frankenphone 2.0: MQ-9 communication innovation

    In 2015, a former member of the 42nd Attack Squadron saw a need to improve communications from MQ-9 Reaper aircrew to ground forces, thus, Frankenphone was created. He pieced-together the invention with scrap phone parts and headsets which aimed to improve communications clarity until a long term

  • RPA culture continues innovation

    The RQ-1 predator, later designated as the MQ-1, was the right aircraft, at the right time following the events of September 11, 2001.

  • Team Shaw keeps leading edge with Tech Talks

    The growth of technology has allowed a simple spoken or typed command to provide people across the world endless information at their fingertips. News, security and even communication has become more complex through continuous advancements.

  • 823rd MXS Airmen fuel innovation

    The 823rd Maintenance Squadron here recently performed a repair and complete rebuild of an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter fuel probe May 10 – a first for Air Force helicopter maintenance squadrons.

  • Leadership Moody; developing leaders through community partnership

    The military has been viewed as an organization that produces great leaders like Colin Powell and James Mattis. But what makes the military an organization that produces these kinds of people? Is it something developed during their tenure of military service?In 2016 Moody Air Force Base launched a

  • 480th ISRW hosts Inaugural ICON Talks

    The 480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing sponsored the inaugural Innovate, Collaborate, Organize and Network Talks Apr. 18 to 21, hosted at National Security Agency Hawaii. ICON Talks were developed to bring selected Airmen together from around the globe, across the entire 480th

  • Raptors take out aerial targets in missile tests

    53rd Wing F-22s fired missiles at live aerial targets, completing operational tests of air-to-air missiles against an aerial targets at the Utah Test and Training Range as part of a major capability upgrade.

  • Air Force officer’s inventions inspired by Pin Art, E Ink

    When Capt. Daniel Stambovsky, a physicist assigned to the 32nd Intelligence Squadron, left his assignment at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York, he left several patents pending. To his surprise, he recently received notification that two of his patents have been approved.A patent

  • Reutilization program saves millions of dollars

    Master Sgt. Bryan ONeill, a range section chief at the 177th Fighter Wing’s Detachment 1, Warren Grove Bombing Range in Burlington County, New Jersey, determined that he could utilize the Defense Logistic Agency’s Reutilization Transfer Donation database of equipment to acquire pieces of

  • Langley 1 of 4 AFBs to test bio-based grease

    The 733rd Logistics Readiness Squadron Vehicle Management Flight was chosen to participate in a 12-month long experimental testing of a new bio-based grease to lessen the base's impact on the environment.The 441st Vehicle Support Chain Operations Squadron and representatives from the Defense

  • Air Force begins migrating email to cloud-based system in 2017

    The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center and Air Force Network Integration Center partnered with industry under the Collaboration Pathfinder project to test the Air Force’s ability to outsource collaborative tools such as email, Lync, and SharePoint to cloud-based services.

  • New course focuses on sortie production at tactical level

    The Advanced Sortie Production Course is the first advanced course specifically focusing on the art and science of sortie production at the tactical level. This new course is being held at the Air Force’s Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School at Nellis Air Force Base.ASPC is a

  • New repair process offers success

    With the mission of the U.S. Air Force constantly evolving, the aircraft which keep that mission alive need to evolve as well.

  • Munitions specialist exemplifies creative thinking

    Innovation isn’t a foreign concept in the Air Force. However, the 49th Maintenance Squadron Munitions Flight is taking the concept to the next level.Airman Phillip Tashash, a 49th MXS munitions specialist, took it upon himself to create an inventory accountability program to better track the

  • AF partners with NASA for mission success

    Developed in the mid 1990’s by the NASA Geographic Information System office, the Flood Impact Analysis Tool illustrates the effects of localized tidal storm flooding. Through a partnership with NASA, the 633rd Civil Engineer Squadron at Langley Air Force Base benefits from the multi-functioning

  • PoinT: smarter operations for the 53rd WEG

    Members the 53rd Weapon Evaluations Group leadership met Dec. 16, 2016, to discuss the group’s newest initiative that uses innovative problem solving to help streamline their mission.

  • Airmen develop new, original delivery approach

    The 355th Logistics Readiness Squadron devised a new method that has changed its efficiency of delivering supplies to more than 250 organizations. The approach of tracking deliveries through Wi-Fi developed when 355th LRS personnel discovered they were spending too much time finding signatures that

  • iPads to replace legacy information program

    For more than a half-century, Offutt pilots and navigators have carried heavy bags full of manuals and publications during their missions. These manuals included everything from detailed instructions on how to manually lower landing gear to instructions on landing aircraft at remote airfields in the

  • Gunfighters seek innovation through CPI

    The 366th Force Support Squadron manpower team is leading courses to find innovative ways to maximize resources and increase efficiency in areas concerning people, money and time.

  • Holloman receives new GCS

    Airmen from the 49th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron here received the first of 15 new Block 30 Ground Control Stations on Nov. 14.Although the Block 30 GCSs have been used for the last few months, this is the first time they’re being used at Holloman.

  • 99th MDSS Pharmacy streamlines inpatient medication processes

    The pharmacy at the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Medical Center recently innovated their inpatient medication process by implementing barcode technology to multiple medication dispensing machines throughout the medical center and streamlining and safeguarding the way nurses receive and dispense

  • New program will help ISR aircrews cope with different kind of PTSD

    Finding targets by watching and listening is, by nature, intensely personal and can have a long-lasting effect, to include post-traumatic stress disorder, on the ISR Airmen involved. The 361st is developing a ‘Re-Fit’ program which will assist Airmen in overcoming existing mental health disorders

  • CPIP moves in right direction

    More than a decade ago, when remotely-piloted aircraft were first utilized by the Air Force, the operations tempo was high due to contingencies that took place after 9/11.The mission evolved over the course of the next two decades, but the operations tempo never slowed down; it increased. As a

  • CPIP expands horizons, sharpens RPA readiness

    In an effort to take care of Airmen as they take care of the mission, Air Combat Command has a Culture Process Improvement Program on the remotely-piloted aircraft community. A team consisting of leaders across several functional areas in the RPA and intelligence communities constantly work together

  • AF NTI training streamlines intel Airmen to mission

    When it comes to having the leading edge in air, space and cyberspace, non-commissioned officers from the 70th Operations Support Squadron have taken it to a new level, training Airmen on the importance of Air Force National Tactical Integration (AF NTI).

  • Training ISR warriors faster, smarter through mobile apps

    Of the 12,000 intelligence professionals assigned to 25th Air Force, 70 percent have less than five years of military service. Most of those Airmen are millennials; multi-taskers who thrive on high-tech, mobile and innovative training methods. The educators of the 25th Air Force, Air Force

  • First two enlisted pilots complete solo flights

    Two Air Force master sergeants became the first enlisted Airmen in six decades to complete solo flights, Nov. 3, during Initial Flight Training at the 1st Flying Training Squadron.Both soloed in a DA-20 Katana at Pueblo Memorial Airport as part of the Air Force’s IFT program, which is mandatory for

  • Hill Airmen keep F-35As flying

    After the discovery of faulty insulation on coolant lines caused a temporary flight restriction for 10 of Hill’s 15 F-35As, repaired jets are beginning to fly again.Two aircraft returned to flight Oct. 24 and three more are scheduled for completion by Nov. 4.

  • Tele-ICU: future of intensive care

    For Airmen working in a hospital’s intensive care unit, getting a second opinion from an experienced physician serves as an invaluable commodity. Airmen at the Mike O’Callaghan Federal Medical Center on Nellis Air Force Base will have that opportunity thanks to a partnership with Veteran Affairs to

  • Innovative cyber program protects critical Tyndall assets

    The 325th Communications Squadron became the first Air Combat Command squadron to join a new initiative to ensure Tyndall is able to train and project unrivaled combat air power. The Cyber Squadron Innovation is a pathfinder program among Air Force communication squadrons, enabling communications

  • QF-4 mission nearly complete

    The QF-4 Aerial Target mission is winding down and two of the aircraft visited here Oct. 25 so that those who have supported F-4 Phantom IIs over the years could see them one last time.

  • Air Force’s first robotic surgery training course established at Keesler

    Keesler Air Force Base surgeons are forging a new path in military medicine by being the first in the Air Force to use one of the most advanced robotic surgery systems available today. The Keesler Medical Center has acquired two of the newest robotic surgical systems out there, the da Vinci Xi, one

  • New Emerge Moody innovation develops leaders

    Kicking off a new leadership development program, 20 Airmen from various career fields began a nine-month journey to better understand Moody’s mission during Emerge Moody. Candidates from the rank of E-3 to E-6, and Company Grade Officers, applied for the program and were selected after an interview

  • Runway 12 ILS guides first approaching aircraft

    The Runway 12 Instrument Landing System guided its first approaching aircraft here, Sept. 15.The internationally standardized system assists pilots during the final approach for landing.

  • Comprehensive Fitness program builds more resilient Airmen and families

    The challenge was to develop a new and exciting way to build more resilient Airmen and families without it feeling the same as past programs. With support from the Garrison and National Security Agency Georgia leaderships, the 480th Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Group created their

  • 416th FLTS testers meet with Auto GCAS survivor

    Test pilots and engineers from the 416th Flight Test Squadron had the chance to meet face-to-face with one of the squadron’s success stories Aug. 25. The group met with an allied nation pilot trainee who returned home alive after he experienced a g-force-induced loss of consciousness and his F-16’s

  • MXG Airman's innovation 'triggers' AF-level change

    One maintenance Airman used attention to detail paired with problem solving skills to remove unnecessary and costly stages of maintenance that will save the Air Force money, resources and manpower.U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Jacob DelTedsco, 23d Component Maintenance Squadron electrical and

  • Beale awarded for innovative environmental restoration practices

    The Secretary of Defense awarded Beale Air Force Base the 2016 Department of Defense Environmental Award for Environmental Restoration, Installation Aug 5, 2016, here. The installation received the award for making progress toward cleaning contamination from past defense activities, maintaining

  • William "Billy" Mitchell

    This is a post of original article titled William 'Billy' Mitchell -- 'The father of the United States Air Force' once live here at https://www.army.mil/article/33680/William___039_Billy__039__Mitchell______039_The_father_of

  • Changing Air Force healthcare through innovation

    Innovation is a buzzword often associated with new technology platforms or successful sports teams, but in reality innovation can apply anywhere someone comes up with a new idea or way of doing something.When it comes to health innovation and research, it’s all about finding new solutions to improve

  • F-35 parts store moves to new, larger location

    The Airmen of the 99th Logistics Readiness Squadron F-35 Aircraft Parts Store at Nellis AFB will be moving to a new location and assisting with Air Force’s technical training school house curriculum in order to provide the ability to accomplish their mission more efficiently.

  • 388th MXS Airmen improve F-35 tire change process

    For years, the wheel shop here has disassembled, inspected, repaired, built, and delivered reliable F-16 aircraft tires and wheels. That reliability and 24-hour turnaround time will remain intact as the base's operational mission transitions from F-16 to F-35A Lightning II

  • Seymour Johnson AFB tests new military refueling unit

    Airmen from the 4th Logistics Readiness Squadron participated in afirst-time military testing of a new Isometrics R-11 Refueler Unit May 16, 2016, atSeymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina. The Airmen conducted fueling operations on F-15E Strike Eagles and KC-135 Stratotankers to assisted the

  • D-M sets standard for deployed Airmen tracker

    Desert Lightning Team members created an innovative tool, now Air Combat Command-wide, for leadership to track their Airmen downrange at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.Two Airmen from the 355th Communications Squadron crafted an official tool, called the Blue Line Tracker, to create a more

  • 14th TES participates at AFCEA Cyberspace Symposium

    For the seventh year in a row, the 14th Testing Squadron, an operational testing squadron that partners with the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center here, participated in the gathering of both industry and governments combined known as the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Cyberspace

  • 633 mph -- nothing to mach

    “Ten, nine, eight, seven, six…” A steady voice reads through a crackling radio atop a roughly hewn 2x4 wooden shelf, adding lumber to the smells of coffee and aftershave inside the enclosed trailer. Red LED numbers attached to the radio flash their faint light as they drop toward zero.  “…five,

  • HHL16 provides new capabilities to JTACs

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev.— Special Operations Command, Department of Defense components and members from the U.S. Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force took part in the operational assessment of the Hand Held Link 16 radio produced by ViaSat, March 21-25, 2016, at the Nevada Test and Training Range.

  • Weather Airmen focused on F-35, F-22 future support

    Weather Airmen from across Air Combat Command converged on Langley Air Force Base, Virginia for the 2016 ACC Weather Conference Mar. 8 - 11, 2016. Attendees discussed building weather support for 5th generation aircraft, educating the force on readiness issues, highlighting remote aircraft and