• 2019 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign begins at Wright-Patt

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- With a theme of “Commitment to Caring,” the 46th annual Air Force Assistance Fund campaign at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has begun and runs through April 26.The annual AFAF campaign raises funds for AFAF-affiliated charities that assist active-duty,

  • Wright-Patt boasts ‘stamp-worthy’ military working dogs

     WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The U.S. Postal Service recently revealed five additional subjects to the 2019 Stamp Program, including one honoring the nation’s military working dogs by showcasing four breeds with a new booklet of 20 stamps to be released this year.The 88th Security

  • New 2019 Air Force Marathon courses revealed

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The U.S. Air Force Marathon office released course maps for the 2019 full marathon, half marathon and 10K, redesigned in response to runner inputs in order to improve safety and the running experience.“We read hundreds of post-race surveys to see how runners

  • US senior research materials engineer wins international award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Jaap Schijve Award is an international award presented by The Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR and Delft University of Technology to promote the disciplines of fatigue and damage tolerance for aerospace applications. Dr. Adam Pilchak of the Air Force

  • AFRL leads Pro-Bowl Sprint to enhance contract award process

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Contracting, financial and technical personnel from across the Air Force awarded more than 160 contracts to small businesses valued at $58 million during a five-day Pro-Bowl Sprint led by the Air Force Research Laboratory at the AFWERX Innovation Hub in

  • IT summit scripts Hanscom for success

    Hanscom AFB hosted the summit and is home to Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks as well as PEO Digital, which collectively manage the entire Air Force network and many of the physical and digital weapons systems that run on it. The summit

  • PEO Digital clones old hardware on new

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – A PEO Digital team at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado, is investing 15 months and $2.4 million to save time and energy by paring down and updating computer parts responsible for tracking space-borne objects.Prior to their effort, Space Defense Operations Center

  • AFRL team wins Laureate Award for life-saving aircraft technology

    WASHINGTON – The Air Force Research Laboratory's Automatic Integrated Collison Avoidance System team, along with Lockheed Martin and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, were awarded the 2019 Aviation Week Laureate Award for safety in the defense category during a formal ceremony here Mar

  • Wright-Patterson Recycle Center: Reduce, Reuse, then Recycle

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about 49 cents per year. That same amount of bottled water is about $1,400 a year according to an article from Ban the Bottle.netTry ditching bottled water and you could help keep the

  • IMLCI Together Everyone Achieves More (TEAM)

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate is working on a new program that will improve information sharing and management in the Air Force logistics community.Known as the Item Master Logistics Capabilities