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  • Innovative teaching idea saves Air Force $1.1 million

    An idea by the 982nd Training Group to make formal military instructor training available at field training detachments has saved the Air Force more than $1.1 million in temporary duty expenditures so far in fiscal year 2013.The FTD version of the Principles of Instruction course, or POI, was

  • AFSO 21: Innovations for T-38 Maintenance

    Using the Air Force's Smart Operations for the 21st Century Program, members from the 47th Maintenance Directorate and 47th Operations Group developed a plan to trim hours required to maintain Laughlin's aging fleet of T-38 Talon aircraft.The eight-member team spent last week using AFSO 21's

  • Altus leads AETC in transition to cost-conscious culture

    A small base, in a small community, has shown how large of an impact it can make by leading the way in Air Education and Training Command's transition to a cost-conscious culture, or C3.Since the beginning of January 2012, the 97th Air Mobility Wing at Altus Air Force Base, Okla., has generated more

  • New vehicular device saves money Air Force-wide

    All government-owned and general service administration vehicles at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph are scheduled to receive an automotive information module, or AIM2.AIM2 is a device that collects real-time data that will help fleet managers avoid wasting fuels and stop emissions release.GOVs and

  • Engineers to save bigger bucks on AC, lighting

    In today's culture of cost-consciousness, the onus for frugal spending of taxpayer dollars must be the priority for every uniformed and civilian member of Air Education and Training Command, throughout the Air Force, all the way to the top of the Department of Defense. At Joint Base San Antonio,

  • Sheppard detachment helps EOD joint school embrace C3

    Turning one person's trash into another person's treasure happens all the time and Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal is as far as one needs to look to see the cost-conscious culture mentality in full swing on a daily basis.When it comes to reutilizing recyclable materials to enhance practical

  • AETC awards Sheppard $10.5 million

    Brigadier General Michael Fantini, 82nd Training Wing commander, announced last week that Sheppard Air Force Base would receive more than $10 million in funds from Air Education and Training Command to support several demolition and renovation projects on the base, reinforcing the Cost Conscious

  • Maxwell Airman receives $10K through IDEA Program

    Recently, Air Force Integrated Maintenance Data System computer programmer Senior Airman Zachariah Grummons from the Program Executive Office-Business Enterprise System received a $10,000 check from the Air Force Innovative Development through Employee Awareness Program. In February, Grummons

  • JBSA-Randolph units benefit from PECI program

    More than five years ago, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph's Trainer Development Division bought two machines called vertical milling centers that more than recouped their costs in a matter of months.The first one, purchased for $195,880, started operation in December 2005 and had saved the Air Force

  • Sheppard saves on energy costs with new paint

    When it comes to cultivating ideas for a Cost Conscious Culture, or C3, the 82nd Civil Engineering Squadron has come up with several groundbreaking ideas. Their latest money-saving idea: repainting aging facilities with an insulating paint. Much of the infrastructure at Sheppard was built in the