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Coordinates: 40°00′55″N 82°27′57″W. AFMETCAL (Air Force METrology and CALibration Program Office), located in Heath, Ohio is the primary manager of metrology services for the U.S. Air Force. It retains engineering authority for all calibrations performed in the PMEL labs throughout the Air Force, and oversees the contractor managed ...
Aeronautical Systems Center. The Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) is an inactivated Air Force product center that designed, developed and delivered weapon systems and capabilities for U.S. Air Force, other U.S. military, allied and coalition-partner warfighters. ASC formed in 1961, and over its lifetime it managed 420 Air Force, joint and ...
Recruits, trains, and educates airmen. Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, U.S. Gen Thomas A. Bussiere. Develop and provide combat-ready forces for nuclear deterrence and global strike operations. Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, U.S. Gen Duke Z. Richardson.
KC-46A, [2] KC-135R/T. The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) is a Major Command (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force (USAF). AFMC was created on July 1, 1992, through the amalgamation of the former Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC) and the former Air Force Systems Command (AFSC). AFMC is headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in ...
The United States and the Metric System (LC 1136) nist.gov Archive.org; The Metric System in the United States Archived June 11, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; A Metric America: A Decision Whose Time Has Come on nist.gov Archive.org; Metric Conversion Act of 1975 on nist.gov Archive.org; www.us-metric.org—U.S. Metric Association (mirror link)
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is a scientific research and development detachment of the United States Air Force Materiel Command dedicated to leading the discovery, development, and integration of direct-energy based aerospace warfighting technologies, planning and executing the Air Force science and technology program, and providing warfighting capabilities to United States air ...
The history of Youngstown ARS dates to the early 1950s, when it was originally opened as Youngstown Air Force Base. Beginning in 1951, the Air Defense Command (ADC) began negotiations with the local community to construct an Air Force base to defend the north-central United States. Negotiations were finalized and the new base was dedicated on ...
United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories, [ 1 ] since being standardized and adopted in 1832. [ 2 ] The United States customary system developed from English units that were in use in the British Empire before the U.S. became an independent country.