• AFOSR develops Next Generation Scientists

    ARLINGTON, Va. -- Some of the best and brightest ideas can come from young scientists eager to innovate and advance the world of science, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is always searching for ways to harness that knowledge and talent to advance future U.S Air Force operations.Like

  • Resilient Airman takes on running in the Air Force Marathon

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – After facing adversities in his life, Staff Sgt. Kyle Hipol now embraces them and turns any challenges he encounters as opportunities. Running the Air Force Marathon in September is certainly a challenge that he is ready to take on.In 2008 at 14 years old,

  • Accommodations may be available for employees with disabilities

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Federal government employees with a disability may be able to receive reasonable accommodations to help assist with their job duties.The American Disabilities Act mandates employers to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees

  • Using robots to build better kids

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The FIRST Championship was held in Detroit, Michigan, April 24-27, and Team 5029, the Powerstackers, coached by William Pickl, an engineering branch chief, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Business Systems Division and his wife, Teri, competed against

  • AFRL employees offer helping hand to those affected by recent tornadoes

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Many surrounding areas of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were damaged from tornadoes that struck Mercer, Montgomery, and Greene County, Ohio on Memorial Day.As Air Force Research Laboratory Material and Manufacturing Directorate employees realized their

  • Tanker Directorate gets new PEO

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. John Newberry assumed leadership as Program Executive Officer for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Tanker Directorate, during a May 31 ceremony presided over by Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition,

  • Future deployers: Don’t forget to feed the runway

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Blue Horizons Program at Air University is a CSAF-chartered, future-oriented think tank that creates and tests prototypes of new strategic concepts and capabilities.Three Blue Horizons Fellows, with different technical backgrounds, including a former

  • PEO Digital soups-up intel sharing software

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Program Executive Office Digital is helping services share intelligence by updating software for the Distributed Common Ground System, or DCGS.  All military branches and their special operations forces use DCGS to share intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance,