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  • Air Force takes steps to move acquisition forward

    Recapitalizing equipment and bringing credibility to the acquisition process were among the topics discussed by the Air Force's service acquisition executive, responsible for all Air Force research, development and non-space acquisition activities. "The goal is lean acquisition with integrity and

  • Engineers garner DOD environmental restoration award

    Dover Air Force Base was recently named the winner of the 2006 Secretary of Defense Environmental Restoration Award. Members of the 436th Civil Engineer Squadron garnered the recognition for managing the best environmental restoration program in the Department of Defense. Earlier this year, Dover

  • Environmental center gets new name, added responsibilities

    The Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence, with headquarters here, has been renamed the Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, Air Force officials announced May 31. The agency's acronym, AFCEE, will remain the same. Its new designation "more accurately reflects the

  • Robins 'War Wagons' bring maintenance to warfighters

    When the Department of Defense has an aircraft in need of repair and the situation requires a traveling repairman, it looks to Robins Air Force Base and the 402nd Commodities Maintenance Group to come to the rescue. The group maintains a one-of-a-kind resource, two War Wagons, which deploy around

  • B-1 Stab Shop finishes eight-year project

    The B-1 Stabilizer Shop recently completed an eight-year modification project to extend the life of the aging aircraft. Concluded March 13, the process removed and replaced roughly 95 percent of the B-1B horizontal stabilizer's internal structure on the entire fleet of 77 bombers. Located near the