• Hill software engineer helps research team win top honors

    Collaborative work by a team based at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to detect small aircraft, has won them the top award in the 7th annual Air Force Research Laboratory Commander's Challenge.Joann Luu, a Human Engineering Development System Software Engineer for F-16 simulators with the 519th Software

  • AFMC outlines near-term budgetary guidance

    The budgetary uncertainties currently facing the Department of Defense, combined with a projected $1.8 billion shortfall in Air Force funding for overseas contingency operations, require prudent steps to mitigate budget execution risks, according to Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, Air Force Materiel

  • 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

  • 75th Air Base Wing welcomes new commander

    Col. Kathryn Kolbe assumed command of the 75th Air Base Wing on Jan. 11 in a ceremony officiated by Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield, Air Force Sustainment Center commander, in Hanger 37. The ceremony followed a historic year of change as the air base wing saw the Air Force Materiel Command's

  • Panetta memo deals with possible sequestration effects

    While many remain hopeful that Congress and the administration will reach a deal that avoids sequestration, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has issued a memo describing the potential implications of going over the fiscal cliff.Planning for the effects of an across-the-board cut in defense spending

  • CFC honors volunteers at breakfast

    The Team Hill Combined Federal Campaign raised more than $962,000 in pledges and donations in 2012. A breakfast was held to honor and recognize the Hill CFC volunteers Dec. 18."Being part of the CFC and seeing all the hard work that goes on in the background to ensure all of the donations are