• Celebrate the Air Force's 70th Birthday

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of the community are invited to join Team Wright-Patt at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Sept. 8 to celebrate the Air Force’s 70th Birthday. The event will be held in the museum’s Fourth Hangar from 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. and will

  • AFIT offers unique nuclear engineering program

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –  With talk of nuclear weapons returning to Americans’ everyday conversations, it might be excusable for the average person to think that the technology somehow had left the mainstream; this couldn’t be further from the truth.For educators at the Air Force

  • Program office receives model Global Hawk

    Col. Darien Hammett, director of the Global Hawk System Program Office, accepts a 1/10th scale model of a Global Hawk Block 40 aircraft from Lauren Stevens, Global Hawk program manager and vice president, Northrop Grumman.The Global Hawk System Program Office, is responsible for the total life cycle

  • Dedicated volunteer receives Air Force-level award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dede Richardson, a military spouse, received the 2017 Air Force Fisher House Volunteer of the Year Award during a ceremony Aug. 7, at the Fisher House II, one of two, side-by-side compassionate comfort care facilities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.“She

  • Air Force Military Treatment Facilities pilot medical readiness

    Air Force Medicine has a non-stop global readiness mission. Medical Airmen must be prepared to deploy on short notice to provide life-saving and performance-enhancing healthcare in diverse, austere, and isolated locations, and all Airmen must be medically ready to deploy. To achieve this readiness

  • That’s a wrap: students complete summertime work in Air Force Lab

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Each summer high school and college students apply for jobs at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with hopes of working in a world-class research laboratory. This year was no exception. Cristian Orozco, graduate student from the University of Texas El Paso is

  • Agencies collaborate at KC-135 System Supportability Review

    TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. -- Decades of world-class Tinker Air Force Base support for the KC-135 have relied on synergy of many Air Force and Department of Defense agencies and organizations. At this year’s C/KC-135 Legacy Tanker Division’s System Supportability Review event, agencies identified

  • 711th Human Performance Wing significant part of Research Lab's heritage

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Research Laboratory has a rich and complex heritage, celebrating 100 years of U.S. Air Force science and technology this year. At less than 10 years old, the Lab’s 711th Human Performance Wing is young -- but its mission is anything but.Today’s