• Join a team, run for a cause during the Air Force Marathon

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –  Three nonprofit organizations — Air Force Enlisted Village, Fisher House and United Service Organizations — invite runners to join their fundraising teams during the annual Air Force Marathon event, Sept. 14-15."The AFEV, Fisher House, and USO are all

  • Air Camp: An intro into aviation like no other

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Young minds experience a summer camp program unlike any other. From across the United States, 150 kids participated in interesting and hands on activities here on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as part of the Air Camp program.For a week, children in groups of

  • 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

  • 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