• Health assessments ensure F-35 crew chiefs are fit to fight

    It was a regular day on the flightline. However, an intricate system of tubes and scientific instruments were woven and clipped to the maintainer’s uniforms. Ensuring a healthy environment is available for Airmen to perform their jobs is the first concern for the Air Force and could mean the

  • Suicide prevention month: stopping suicide is everyone’s battle

    September is Suicide Prevention Month, a time for Americans to build awareness and help understand suicide in our culture. More than 40,000 Americans lose their life due to suicide each year and research shows that rates in the military and the general population are very close. The loss of any one

  • Calculating financial management’s annual awards

    Financial Management Airmen from every AFLCMC site provided oversight to more than 22,000 contracts representing $50 billion in Air Force expenditures. Forty-nine judges evaluated 237 nomination packages and settled on awards for 26 AFLCMC individuals and three team categories.

  • Wright-Patt issues first Gold Star ID through Air Force Families Forever

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – “I’ve always been honored in being part of the Air Force family, even though I didn’t serve myself,” Joseph Bryan Stuart said, shortly after receiving the first Gold Star Family Member identification card issued at Wright-Patterson as part of a new Air Force

  • AFRL shares UAV software to further research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 711th Human Performance Wing’s Airman Systems Directorate is using an information transfer agreement construct to provide commercial companies with access to its Vigilant Spirit Control Station software package, which allows operators to control multiple

  • New technology shows promise for ground ops to sidestep GPS jamming threats

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Ground forces may soon be getting a new tool to find their way around hostile territory. With support from the Air Force SBIR/STTR Program, Virginia-based Echo Ridge LLC is developing a process to overcome GPS-contested environments by using radio frequency

  • Directorate signs contract to purchase presidential aircraft

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Presidential Aircraft Recapitalization Directorate headquartered here, signed a contract Aug. 4 to purchase two commercial Boeing 747-8s, which will become the next Air Force One fleet.The contract was officially

  • Demands for donated blood go up

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The primary mission for the Armed Services Blood Program is to spread the word that the blood donor program is here at the Wright-Patt Medical Center.“Summertime is a period when blood donation needs go up because of increased accidents and compounding the

  • Supercomputing the weather with ‘Thor’

    Thor models global weather patterns and provides individual air bases and army units with specific forecasts for areas as small as 17 square kilometers. The computer system is comprised of nearly 1,000 individual blade servers. Thor’s increased capacity allows weather Airmen at Offutt to generate