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  • 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

  • New course aims to transform Air Force acquisition

    Improving the integration between the Air Force acquisition community and members of the operational community is one of the goals of the Air Force Materiel Command-sponsored Advanced Acquisition Course. The inaugural cohort will begin in July.

  • PEO Digital soups-up intel sharing software

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Program Executive Office Digital is helping services share intelligence by updating software for the Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS.  All military branches and their special operations forces use DCGS to share intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,

  • Bunch takes command

    Amidst a sea of aviation history, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. assumed leadership of the Air Force Materiel Command during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Air Force here, May 31.

  • C3I&N engineer talks STEM with STARBASE students

    1st Lt. Jazmin Furtado, a U.S. Air Force engineer, speaks to STARBASE students from Peabody, Mass., public schools, during a presentation at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., May 30. Furtado demonstrated equipment and talked about her science, technology, engineering and mathematics background, and how

  • C3I&N manages exponential network growth

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – System engineers at Hanscom are trying to increase network capacity to the point where no Airman will ever curse the connection or blame the blue circle for work stoppage.Most Air Force installations, each hosting thousands of users, connect to the outside world

  • Bunch to command AFMC

    Lt. Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. will become the next commander of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.

  • Leak: swift hiring makes early adoption possible

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center will require managers to fast-track hiring for some vacant acquisition positions, said the AFLCMC senior functional for program managers at a town hall here May 16.