April 20, 2022 Benefield Anechoic Facility tests C-130 electronic countermeasures An AC-130J Ghostrider assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing from Hurlburt Field, Fla., recently underwent electronic weapons countermeasures testing at the Benefield Anechoic Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
April 19, 2022 Test team proves Legion pod targeting capabilities First-ever multi-platform operational test to effectively locate a target using shared Infra-Red Search and Track sensor data.
April 18, 2022 AEDC announces winners of 2021 Science, Engineering and Technical Management Awards Arnold Engineering Development Complex senior leadership announced the complex-level winners for the Air Force Materiel Command Science, Engineering and Technical Management Awards on April 5.
April 14, 2022 Estep selected as Executive Director The Air Force has selected Lorna B. Estep for the position of Executive Director, Air Force Materiel Command.
April 14, 2022 AFMC leaders to host virtual town hall Air Force Materiel Command leadership will host a command-wide virtual town hall, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at 2 p.m. ET.
April 13, 2022 Electric rotary aircraft completes first Eglin flight Lift Hexa, an electric, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, flew for approximately 10 minutes and reached a height of about 50 feet.
April 12, 2022 Eglin unit helps AWACS with first-time, in-air update The 36th Electronic Warfare Squadron helped a E-3G or AWACS, demonstrate the ability to receive and process in-air electronic warfare software updates derived from EW data collected and transmitted while in flight for the first time ever.
April 11, 2022 AFRL completes series of 1 Newton ASCENT monopropellant thruster testing The Chemical Propulsion Flight Programs Group at the Air Force Research Laboratory has successfully completed the Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic Propellant (ASCENT) monopropellant 1 Newton (1N) thruster testing in the Chemical in-Space Thruster Test and Research Site test facility.
April 11, 2022 Hill AFB supports DoD 5G quick reaction tests The Department of Defense recently conducted live test flights at Hill Air Force Base as part of the department’s Joint Interagency FiveG Radar Altimeter Interference, or JI-FRAI, quick reaction tests.
April 7, 2022 A B-1B Lancer takes off from Edwards AFB for PDM A B-1B Lancer takes off from Edwards AFB to Tinker AFB for PDM.