• Small antennas could bring big benefits to the Air Force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – When it comes to military and consumer electronics, smaller is often better, and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s revolutionary new antenna design is promising to make military electronics much better.Researchers at the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing

  • Tech Warrior participants walk in the shoes of battlefield Airmen

    FAIRBORN, Ohio – Whoever owns the technological advantage when it comes to warfighting likely controls the battlespace of today. Scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as acquisition personnel from throughout Air Force Materiel Command work hard to ensure that

  • Intrusion Detection and Alarm Management Takes an Enterprise Approach

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Management of the installation intrusion detection and alarm system became part of an enterprise solution Oct. 1.The Air Force’s Installation Management and Support Command developed a solution for not only managing the day-to-day maintenance of intrusion

  • Maria, Irma make landfall for Hanscom Airmen

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- Master Sgt. Sharlyne Acevedo, Acquisition Intelligence Division superintendent at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center here, first heard her family survived Hurricane Maria’s direct hit on Puerto Rico seven full days after landfall. In order to get word to

  • A chip that scrambles

    Mini Crypto is a self-contained encryption engine that generates its own session based “key.” Designed to be small and lightweight, it is about the size of a cracker.

  • Aeromedical Consultation Service critical to “Fly, Fight, Win”

    EDITORS NOTE:  This is the first part of a four-part series on the Aeromedical Consultation Service at Wright-Patterson. Part two delves into how the ACS' Internal Medicine branch keeps Air Force aviators safely in the skies. A link to that story appears below. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio

  • 13th Annual Wright-Patt Pumpkin Chuck takes to skies Oct. 27

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –  The 13th Annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck will again launch orange gourds thousands of feet through the skies behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force Oct. 27 from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Entry to the event is free and open to all base

  • Wheelchair basketball event, plus food truck rally, will highlight inclusion

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Individuals who are able bodied and those with disabilities will pit their skills against each other during the third annual Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Wheelchair Basketball Game, to be held Oct. 4 at the Wright-Field Fitness Center, Area B from 11 a.m.