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  • DBIDS registration deadline suspended

    The July 31 deadline for registration in the Defense Biometric Identification System has been suspended due to connectivity problems with the system.A new deadline will be established once those issues have been resolved.DBIDS registration was initiated at Robins in February. Since then, the 78th

  • HVM improves maintainers’ readiness for C-130s

    Although implementation of High Velocity Maintenance in the C-130 section is still in its infancy, a key feature of it is already having a big impact.The technical term for it is "supportability." It encompasses everything that is involved with being ready to meet each task to be done on an aircraft

  • Robins works to get new lean, mean fire trucks for Air Force

    Air Force bases later this year will begin using a new type of smaller, "more lethal" fire truck - and it came about with the close involvement of Robins personnel.Program management of all Air Force fire trucks is done through the Aerospace Sustainment Directorate's Support Equipment and Vehicles

  • Airmen to participate in "Ruck March to Remember"

    78th Security Forces members will participate in a unique event to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.The 2,181-mile Ruck March to Remember began July 12 at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas and will end Sept. 1 at Ground Zero in New York.The march is broken into 15 legs, with

  • Maintenance leaders discuss challenges, future improvements

    Pentagon officials and leaders from maintenance depots across the Department of Defense attended a Peer-to-Peer Conference here earlier this week. They gathered to discuss current issues facing the department's maintenance community, including what can be done to improve the efficiency of operations

  • Plant fire damages estimated at $1.6M

    A July 13 fire at Bldg. 352, an industrial waste dewatering facility, caused major damage to equipment and the facility.Preliminary estimates put the total damage at $1.6 million with $1.25 million of that attributed to a severely-burned sludge press. The building damage estimate was set at

  • Collaboration nets major safety results

    It looks like a war room, and in theory that's exactly what it is. With charts, A3 sheets and posters gracing the walls, and computers lining several rows of tables, the Workplace Safety and Health Team members fight to make sure Robins achieves and sustains OSHA compliance and ensures work force

  • Weighing C-5s a complex process

    A lot of complex work is done to each aircraft which undergoes programmed depot maintenance at Robins, but one of the last steps is something everyone can understand, even if it's not as simple as it sounds. The final step before an aircraft goes out for functional test is to weigh it. The three

  • 116th exec wins AF NAACP award

    When Fabian Hollis heard he won the NAACP Benjamin L. Hooks Service Award for the Air Force, he thought someone must have made a mistake. The 116th Air Control Wing director of staff knew he had won it for Air Combat Command, and thought someone simply must have been confused when they told him he

  • No early retirement incentives for AFMC civilians in FY11

    Air Force Materiel Command officials have announced that voluntary retirement and separation incentives will not be offered to its civilian workforce during the remainder of fiscal year 2011 which ends Sept 30. Instead, the command will continue using Air Force civilian hiring controls to manage the