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  • Initiatives to improve Air Force acquisition

    Addressing a standing-room-only audience of industry and government employees here May 13, the Air Force's Service Acquisition Executive spoke about acquisition priorities, challenges and initiatives.Dr. William LaPlante, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, emphasized his top

  • Hanscom emphasizes tobacco-use policy, restrictions

    Hanscom Air Force Base is taking measures to reinforce Air Force policies regarding tobacco use on base, focusing specifically on properly locating, marking and enforcing the use of Designated Tobacco Areas, or DTAs.DTAs will be marked as the only place people are allowed to use tobacco in any form.

  • AFMC's Wingman Intervention program going strong

    More than a year after it was introduced, Air Force Materiel Command's Wingman Intervention program is still going strong."During the spring 2013 Wingman Day, AFMC made a concerted effort to provide its Airmen with the skills and confidence they need to safely intervene when they see fellow Airmen

  • Youth program 'banks' dollars for college

    The Youth Employment Skills program is an on-base youth volunteer program funded by the Air Force Aid Society to provide high-school aged dependents an opportunity to bank volunteer dollar credits toward post-secondary education. Effective June 1, volunteers will earn $6 per volunteer hour.The YES

  • Update: JSTARS Recap moves to next phase

    A senior Department of Defense official signed a key acquisition memo May 7 that will allow the Joint STARS Recapitalization program office here to begin awarding contracts.Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, signed a Materiel Development Decision

  • Air Force ROTC detachment command opportunities available

    Eligible active-duty line of the Air Force lieutenant colonels and lieutenant colonel-selects interested in summer 2016 Reserve Officer Training Corps detachment command opportunities have until May 27 to request consideration for these positions.Command opportunities are expected to open at more

  • AFMC activates AFIMSC

    The commander of Air Force Materiel Command officially activated the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center during a ceremony here May 5.Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger appointed Maj. Gen. Theresa Carter as the first AFIMSC commander at the event attended by more than 500 people in the Basic