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July 13, 2018
88th Security Forces Squadron wins 2018 AFA Verne Orr award

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –The 88th Security Forces Squadron has taken top honors as the winners of the 2018 Air Force Association Verne Orr Award. Established in honor of former Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr, the award recognizes an Air Force unit that makes the most effective
July 13, 2018
KC-46 completes flight testing required for October first aircraft delivery

The KC-46 Pegasus program achieved an important milestone July 6, 2018, at Boeing Field, Seattle, with completion of the final flight tests required for first aircraft delivery planned in late October.
July 13, 2018
Internship provides inspiration for scientists and engineers, both seasoned and new

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – For some students, summer means lifeguarding or scooping ice cream. For others, it means generating synthetic data using Generative Adversarial Networks, or researching convolutional sparse representations.This summer, 86 hand-picked interns from 48
July 12, 2018
Battle Management PEO receives presidential rank recognition

Steve Wert, Battle Management program executive officer, received a Presidential Rank Award in the Meritorious Senior Executive category July 6 at the Pentagon.
July 12, 2018
Empowering Education in the Workforce

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - More than 50 organizations, including academic institutions, helping agencies, and the Ohio Department of Higher Education, attended the 2018 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Development, Education, and Training Exposition July 12.Academic institutions
July 12, 2018
Go far by getting picky with the FAR

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, MASS. -- Acquisition regulations don’t come with CliffsNotes, so members of a High Performance Team here wrote 21 pages interpreting them and won a Department of Defense level award June 28 for their work.The HPT members from Hanscom and several other major acquisition bases
July 12, 2018
Crider: Solve problems that matter with data

Crider also cited innovative data experimentation efforts led by the Multi-Domain Command and Control team at Hanscom as the basis for insights that will integrate command and control capabilities for the warfighter.
July 10, 2018
AFRL collaborates with OSU on $3 million congressional microscopy program

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Collaboration – what better way to get the job done? The Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and The Ohio State University’s Center for Electron Microscopy and Analysis have a congressionally directed collaborative
July 9, 2018
Headquarters merger streamlines logistics, resources for nuclear enterprise system management

Two AFMC directorates merged to form a single Logistics, Civil Engineering, Force Protection and Nuclear Integration Directorate (A4/10) in an effort to increase synergy and coordination in support of Air Force nuclear modernization efforts.
July 9, 2018
Boston small business develops impact-detecting garments for warfighters to assist combat medics

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A Massachusetts-based, woman-owned small business is leveraging an Air Force-supported technology accelerator to improve high-tech clothing designed to detect and treat wounds on its own.Boston-based Legionarius brought its impact-detecting garments to the