Video by Camelia Streff | Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility | 10.17.2025
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — Ikaika Hollinger, a nuclear machinist with Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, produces a metal prototype using a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) lathe machine in the innovation laboratory (iLab) at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Oct. 17, 2025. The iLab leverages skilled technicians and technology to achieve......
Video by Ryan J Law | Air Force Life Cycle Management Center | 12.28.2020
The Rapid Development Integration Facility (RDIF) is a manufacturing and modification facility that quickly modifies aircraft and weapon systems to meet special operator needs. The RDIF has returned more than $600 million to it’s customers, who are then able to use that money on other projects. (U.S. Air Force video by Ryan Law)...
Video by Austin Smith | 88th Air Base Wing | 10.15.2020
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Rapid Development Integration Facility (RDIF) is a manufacturing and modification facility that quickly modifies aircraft and weapon systems to meet special operator needs, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2020. Since 2010, the RDIF has successfully returned more than $600 million to customers who can then use that money on......
Video by Ryan J Law | 88th Air Base Wing | 10.15.2020
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Rapid Development Integration Facility (RDIF) is a manufacturing and modification facility that quickly modifies aircraft and weapon systems to meet special operator needs, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 15, 2020. Since 2010, the RDIF has successfully returned more than $600 million to customers who can then use that money on......
Video by Airman Anthony Clingerman | 48th Fighter Wing | 08.08.2019
A video feature documenting Airman First Class Zane Hammel's daily operations an airman with the 48th Fighter Wing's Metals Technology shop. Progressive Meltdown by TeknoAXE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, and can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqnPAuOvB4A...
Video by Staff Sgt. Nicholas Alder | 379th Air Expeditionary Wing | 02.16.2019
Airmen with the 379th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron's Metals Fabrication shop take blocks of raw material and whittle them down into the parts that Al Udeid aircraft need to complete the mission....
Video by Cpl. Jarren Burleson | AFN Okinawa | 01.14.2019
AFN Okinawa shines a spotlight on A1C Thomas Kelley. He is an aircraft metals technologist with 18th Equipment Maintenance Squadron on Okinawa, Japan. He helps keep aircraft in the air by creating tools and parts essential to safe flight....
Video by John Ingle | 82nd Training Wing | 12.21.2018
The 361st Training Squadron Metals Technology Apprentice Course graduates 240 Airmen annually after 544 hours of instruction over 68 training days. Airmen learns skills such as machining, welding and more during the program....
