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  • The Precision Impact Range Area (PIRA) offers unique targets for pilots and engineers to test aircraft and weapon systems at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The PIRA uses cutting-edge technology to measure Air Force capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rachel Simones)

    Precision Impact Range Area enhances test capabilities

    Winding roads snake through the desert and the hot summer sun scorches down on sandy expansions of land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Within these twisting roads and sandy spaces lies one of the Air Force’s most valuable test resources, the Precision Impact Range Area (PIRA).
  • The Precision Impact Range Area (PIRA) offers unique targets for pilots and engineers to test aircraft and weapon systems at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The PIRA uses cutting-edge technology to measure Air Force capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Rachel Simones)

    Precision Impact Range Area enhances test capabilities

    Winding roads snake through the desert and the hot summer sun scorches down on sandy expansions of land at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Within these twisting roads and sandy spaces lies one of the Air Force’s most valuable test resources, the Precision Impact Range Area (PIRA).

  • AFMC successfully executes $66 billion portfolio in FY19

    The Air Force Materiel Command executed a more than $66.6 billion portfolio in Fiscal Year 2019, ensuring the delivery and sustainment of agile, cost-effective and war-winning capabilities to the warfighter. AFMC manages 34% of the Air Force overall budget, executing funds across six centers, multiple platforms and Air Force installations, with missions ranging from installation support and readiness to research and development, sustainment, technology acquisition and more, ensuring the service’s warfighting advantage across all mission domains.
  • Chief Master Sgt. Stanley Cadell (second from right) provides a headquarters perspective on an Airman issue during the inaugural AFMC Command Chief Orientation, Oct. 1, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The two day event, was designed to familiarize new AFMC wing and center command chiefs with the overall organizational mission and how their units fit into the bigger picture. (Air Force Photo by Darrius Parker/released)

    AFMC hosts command chief orientation

    Air Force Materiel Command held its first AFMC Command Chief Orientation, Sep. 30-Oct. 1 to familiarize new wing and center command chiefs with the overall organizational mission and how their units fit into the bigger picture. The event provided the new enlisted leaders a greater understanding of the wide range of AFMC missions and offered a broader perspective on the issues that impact Airmen, setting them up for success as they lead the next-generation of Airmen in the organization.
  • More than 200 Air Force Test Pilot School alumni, their families and friends attend the TPS 75th Anniversary dinner at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Sept. 21. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jenna Romo)

    Air Force’s Test Pilot School celebrates semi-sesquicentennial anniversary

    The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School celebrated its 75th anniversary with multiple events that culminated in a dinner event attended by current students and alumni at Edwards Air Force Base, Sept. 21.
  • The AFMC We Need initiative is a grassroots effort designed to recommend changes to posture the command for future success.

    Facilities, IT top themes in AFMC We Need study

    Facility quality and information technology infrastructure topped the list of concerns identified through the Air Force Materiel Command’s AFMC We Need initiative, now in the survey analysis and implementation stage. The command-wide study launched by Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. shortly after he took command in May, aims to identify ways to best posture the command to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy and the Air Force of the future.
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    Against all odds: Air Force family overcomes adversity

    The Giles were presented with a spectrum of possibilities of outcomes for their tiny newborn daughter. They finally were able to determine she had suffered a brain hemorrhage and was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy (CP). The Giles were faced with a future of uncertainties for the health and wellbeing of their first-born child.
  • Lt. Johnny Armstrong (left) stands with his B-58 crewmates Maj. Fitz Fulton, Maj. Cliff Garrington and Everett Dunlap in front of the aircraft in 1957. Armstrong flew in this test and support aircraft making him the first non-rated U.S. Air Force officer to fly at Mach 2. (Courtesy photo)

    AFTC loses one of its own as hypersonics pioneer Johnny G. Armstrong dies

    Johnny G. Armstrong, a hypersonics pioneer and retired flight test engineer at what was then known as the Air Force Flight Test Center here, died in Lancaster, California. He was 86.
  • Airman stands on mountains in hiking gear.

    Military service provides sense of purpose, community

    Landry had evolved from a directionless teenager to a determined leader. Now a first lieutenant, he works as a capital investments project manager with the Test Systems Sustainment and Integration branch at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex (AEDC) in Tennessee.
  • Bunch assumption of command at AFMC

    Views from the fishbowl: getting to know the new AFMC commander

    The first thing that Gen. Arnold W. Bunch Jr. placed on his desk when he arrived at the Air Force Materiel Command headquarters was not a nameplate, laptop or a to-do list for his first few days in office. Rather, it was a clear glass fishbowl containing a single orange goldfish with wide eyes staring out into the space. “It’s my reminder that as the commander, I live in a ‘fishbowl,’ and everyone is watching everything that I am doing each and every minute of the day,” said Bunch. “It’s a personal tease to remind me that I need to be on my ‘A’ game all of the time, because I am always the commander.”
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