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Hosted by the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center, the annual conference is the Air Force’s premiere innovation forum for members of the installation and mission support community. It draws experts from the various Air and Space Force support core functions to address mission shortfalls and propose solutions. Except for 2020, AFIMSC has held I-WEPTAC annually since 2017 to leverage the expertise of Airmen who form cross-functional teams called Mission Area Working Groups. MAWG ...

When the world shut down last year and people shut themselves in during the COVID-19 pandemic, Airmen charged with inspiring and engaging the next generation discovered new ways to showcase America’s air power and dominate pixel space. To their surprise, their recruiting efforts earned the Air Force a Guinness World Records title for the largest online jigsaw puzzle. “This record-breaking accomplishment of our Air Force recruiting team is just another example of how our innovative Airmen a...

Biz Buzz Lewis, Bowen among Forbest Best-In-State Wealth Advisors Tandy G. Lewis, Jr., and John Lee Bowen, managing directors with The Bowen Lewis Investment Group of Raymond James, located at 333 Texas Street, Suite 175, in Shreveport are among the Raymond James-affiliated advisors named to the Forbes list of Best-In-State Wealth Advisors.  The Forbes ranking of Best-In-State Wealth Advisors, developed by SHOOK Research, is based on an algorithm of qualitative criteria, mostly gained through...

By Staff Sgt. Timmethy James, Air Force TV / Published April 16, 2021 FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (AFNS) -- Today’s look Around the Air Force highlights the second Inspector General Independent Disparity Review into gender and ethnicity, focusing on culturally diverse groups; the first Women, Peace and Security Symposium in the Indo-Pacific region; and Airmen from Hawaii go to Japan to work with U.S. Marines and their Japanese counterparts during a Dynamic Force Employment ope...

Active duty Air Force officers and enlisted personnel interested in becoming rated officers have until May 25 to apply for the Fall 2021 Rated Preparatory Program.,

Skunk Works development center in California, Roth carried with him a second imperative that, in the end, may be more valuable and important. “We, the Air Force and Space Force, have a terrific story to tell,” he said. “In defining what our nation needs for its defense, we play an important role. The challenge for leadership, starting with me, is to be able to articulate that to folks inside the Pentagon, and ultimately to our oversight committees and the American people. Meeting Airmen ...

Motherships: The Air Force Wants Its Cargo Planes to Be Drone Carriers In the near-future, C-130 or C-17 cargo planes could carry drones into battle and get recover and refueld and rearm them. Many weapons developers think of Air Force cargo planes such as C-17s and C-130 as primarily transport platforms able to deliver supplies, weapons and forces engaged in forward positioned combat operations. However, the service is increasingly considering also using these kinds of aircraft for actual atta...

Nevada Test and Training Range, or NTTR, met with six tribal representatives for an excursion to a Native American cultural site within the NTTR March 21. Nellis Air Force Base initiated its Native American Program 25 years ago to increase the understanding between base leadership and culturally-affiliated tribes. Within Nevada and the surrounding states of California, Utah and Arizona, many tribes maintain strong cultural ties to the NTTR, a 2.9 million-acre area used for Defense Department tr...

By 2nd Lt. Alexander L. Hubbert, 721st Aerial Port Squadron / Published April 09, 2021 725th Air Mobility Squadron Guidance and Control Maintainer, Staff Sgt. Joseph Cho, teaches 721st Aerial Port Squadron Air Transportation Specialist, Senior Airman Juwan White, how to marshal a C-17 into position at Morón Air Base, April 6, 2021. Airmen of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing have been demonstrating the Wing’s Nodal Agile Combat Employment at the air base since the begin...

By CAITLIN M. KENNEY | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 13, 2021 WASHINGTON — Speed and lack of protective gear during a “joyride” of a vehicle led to the rollover death in September of an Air Force reservist in Kuwait, according to an investigation released Tuesday. Staff Sgt. Ronald J. Ouellette, 23, of Merrimack, N.H., died Sept. 14 when the single all-terrain vehicle in which he was a passenger rolled and pinned him to the ground in a cargo yard near the flight line at Ali Al Sal...