The Air Force Materiel Command recently held a three-day training program on procuring and implementing artificial intelligence solutions. Sponsored by the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, the AI for Acquisition Training Program focused on collaboration capabilities, networks and policies relating to the technology, AFMC said Friday. The U.S. Air Force unit said it […] Read more
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Woolpert a one-year contract to provide geospatial technologies to the Air Force Materiel Command’s 448th Supply Chain Management Wing. Woolpert will provide IT capability development, training services, geospatial IT modernization and sustainment services supporting the 448th SCMW’s mission of managing the Air Force’s logistics. The contractor will also provide […] Read more
Integrated planning software developer Decision Lens announced that it will enhance programming, budgeting and execution processes behind a $19 billion portfolio of the U.S. Air Force Materiel Command – Centralized Asset Management. Such efforts will cover the management and sustainment of unfunded requirements within the portfolio, Decision Lens said Wednesday. Lance DeSpain, the company’s vice […] Read more
The Air Force Materiel Command is planning to merge its three software engineering groups into a single entity within the Air Force Sustainment Center to streamline processes and facilitate software delivery while ensuring agility. The service’s software engineering groups are found in the Air Logistics Complexes at Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Robins AFB, Georgia; […] Read more
The Army Futures Command has established a new cross-functional team focusing on all-domain sensing capabilities. The creation of the team follows the completion of the Assured Positioning, Navigation and Timing/Space CFT’s original mission, the Army Futures Command said. The All-Domain Sensing Cross-Functional Team will focus on developing the Army’s capacity to optimize and synchronize intelligence […] Read more
The U.S. Space Force’s Commercial Space Office will provide up to $40 million in grants to commercial companies that can provide GPS satellite alternatives. Col. Richard Kniseley, director of COSMO and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said during the POC 2024 Space Summit that while most space-based navigation capabilities use GPS, the Space […] Read more
The U.S. Space Force will soon release a list of commercial companies to form part of its Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve, a group formed to help fulfill its mission in times of conflict. In a Jan. 30 interview with C4ISRNET, Col. Richard Kniseley, a senior materiel leader at the Space Force’s Commercial Space Office and […] Read more
The Department of the Air Force’s Air Force Materiel Command has organized a Digital Acceleration Task Force to hasten the DAF’s digital transformation, including the delivery of digital materiel management solutions. According to the AFMC, the service units represented in the DATF include the DAF Digital Transformation Office, AFMC centers and program executive offices. With […] Read more
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a leading government institution specializing in developing technological capabilities and integrating them into the missions of various detachments of the United States Air Force (USAF). The success of the research lab wouldn’t have been possible without the exemplary leadership and minds of its executives. Here is a […] Read more
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has transferred to the U.S. Space Force a geostationary weather satellite to extend to 2030 the U.S. military’s Electro-optical Infrared Weather System-Geostationary mission’s Indian Ocean weather monitoring. The satellite, rebranded as EWS-G2, is the second spacecraft under a NOAA-Space Force partnership agreement initiated in September 2020 to provide mission-critical […] Read more
