• New Jersey company commercializes Air Force technology for the warfighter

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Two new licensing agreements are helping a New Jersey company grow its product line while providing needed technology to the warfighter.Newcomer Arms, LLC recently licensed two technologies from the Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing

  • Robins begins JSTARS depot maintenance

    The Air Force initiated its own depot maintenance here for the E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft July 17, 2018, to deliver more aircraft faster, leading to increased readiness for warfighters.Officials with the JSTARS program office at Robins AFB want to increase the number

  • Louis Bauer exemplar among exemplars at USAFSAM

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Because of its 100-year history, the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine has connections to a tremendous number of notable people. Few advanced early aviation medicine, however, like Maj. (Dr.) Louis H. Bauer.From 1919 until 1925, Bauer

  • Family benefits greatly from Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Even 476 miles, the distance from Wisconsin to Ohio, isn’t enough to stop one family from taking part in the event that continues to change their lives.Abby Schroeder, an Air Force widow, and her sons are eagerly preparing for their trip to Ohio for the

  • Farrell takes leadership of AFSAC

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Sean Farrell accepted leadership of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate at a change of leadership ceremony July 18 at the Wright-Patterson Club.  In front of distinguished guests, foreign

  • AFRL, IBM unveil world's largest neuromorphic digital synaptic super computer

    ROME RESEARCH LABS, New York – The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with IBM, unveiled the world's largest neuromorphic digital synaptic super computer July 19, dubbed Blue Raven, at AFRL's Information Directorate Advanced Computing Applications Lab in Rome, New York. Today, challenges

  • Environmental sensing platform offers added protection against corrosion

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – AFRL is developing an innovative new tool to more effectively manage aircraft corrosion.Researchers from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate are developing and testing a device that could help pre-emptively predict corrosive environmental

  • Sunny future for cloud-hosted AF apps

    Moving the portal onto the cloud is part of an ongoing effort to bring potentially hundreds of separate Air Force applications onto cloud-hosted platforms. The portal’s nearly three quarters of a million average users per month won’t see a break in service, but may notice increased reliability as