• WPAFB to celebrate “Hire a Vet Month” with job fair

    The WPAFB Airman and Family Readiness Center will pay tribute to National "Hire a Vet Month" with a Veteran's Job Fair Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Wright State University Nutter Center. The event is open to military veterans, active-duty military, reservist, guard and their families,

  • AFRL plays major role in historic near-space jump

    For more than nine minutes Oct. 14, an international audience watched as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner egressed from a capsule 128,000 feet above the earth and fell toward the planet reaching speeds of 834 miles per hour, to become the first person to break the sound barrier outside a

  • Mobile App to help 'guide' military members

    Wouldn't it be great to receive a weather report, a listing of the day's activities and directions to important buildings as you travel from base to base? All that and more is possible by accessing a new mobile application that brings the latest guidebook to the user's fingertips and contains

  • AFMC Intelligence Squadron redesignated as 21st Intelligence Squadron

    One of the last key pieces of the new five-center construct of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) fell in place Oct. 12. As part of its move from HQ AFMC to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the AFMC Intelligence Squadron, based at Wright-Patter-son Air Force Base, was redesignated

  • SR 444 Milestones report: Gate taking shape

    The arrival of a new, prefabricated Gate 1A guard shack is one of the most recent highlights of the State Route 444 project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The 1.5-mile-long federal portion of SR 444 that bisected Area A was closed Oct. 9 to improve base security.The guard shack was delivered

  • Milestones report: SR 444 project update

    Traffic patterns at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base have been successfully changed with the Oct. 9 closure of the federal portion of State Route 444 that bisected Area A. Everything went smoothly, with the 88th Civil Engineer Directorate and 88th Security Forces Squadron immediately installing

  • AFLCMC commander meets with base personnel

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is tasked with one overriding mission: meet the warfighter's needs with effective, affordable, on-time solutions, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, commander of the AFLCMC, said during a "town hall" meeting recently at Tinker Air Force Base.The AFLCMC was established

  • PEO talks about priorities for Business and Enterprise Systems

    The program executive officer for Business and Enterprise Systems, Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex, Ala., shared some of his mission objectives and insights about his position during an industry meeting here Oct. 10.Robert Carl "Shof" Shofner, speaking at the Hanscom Representatives Association, said until

  • AFRL officer creates free iPhone deployment app

    The Apple Corp. now features a free application that an Air Force Research Laboratory officer created in his spare time. The app, called "iDeploy" and available through iTunes, serves family, friends and military members as a deployment countdown timer for iPhones, iPads and iPods. Maj. Torrey

  • Strategic sourcing solution demonstrates AF-wide benefits

    The Enterprise Sourcing Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has transformed the airfields across the Air Force by replacing the incandescent taxiway fixtures to light emitting diode (LED) taxiway fixtures, through a strategic sourcing initiative. This multiple award contract was awarded 4 Aug