• Focus Week registration opens for courses being offered July 24-28

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The third Focus Week of 2017, scheduled for July 24-28 at the 88th Air Base Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is approaching. Registration opens June 30 and continues until the day before each course is held. The July Focus Week is focused on career

  • Wing announces holiday hours of operation

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The following facilities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will have different hours of operation (if not listed, consider them closed) on Monday, July 3, 2017 (AFMC Family Day); and Tuesday, July 4, 2017 (Independence Day observed): Gates1A (Fairborn

  • SAMPE honors AFRL with inaugural Organizational Excellence Award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering recently presented AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate with the inaugural SAMPE North America Organizational Excellence Award for their work in materials advancement and process

  • One of the most important doctors you’ll never meet

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It started in the stairwell of a New York City subway station. “So, I was coming up out of the subway and I was climbing up the stairs. Some of the stations in the city have huge flights of stairs,” said Maj. (Dr.) Luisa Watts.Then a civilian, Watts was

  • KC-46 Program office volunteers support House of Bread Dayton

    Lt. Col. Carlos Quinones (right), KC-46 Program Officer Director of Operations and volunteer opportunity event coordinator, prepares silverware with his wife, Rebecca, in preparation for serving more than 270 meals to Dayton community members in need at the House of Bread Dayton June 28, 2017. More

  • Air Force Senior Technologist named ACS Fellow

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --  A principal scientific expert at the Air Force Research Laboratory was selected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Chemical Society for his outstanding achievements and contributions to science and professional leadership in the field.Dr. Timothy J. Bunning,

  • Genatempo to lead Armament Directorate

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Col. Anthony Genatempo will become the Program Executive Officer for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Armament Directorate located at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.  Genatempo, who was recently selected for promotion to brigadier general, is currently

  • AFLCMC customer support visit

    Maj. Gen. T. Glenn Davis (r), mobilization assistant to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander and a team of subject matter experts and senior leaders discuss a B-1 structural issue at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas in May. Since Dec. 2015, AFLCMC has conducted seven customer support

  • Nephrology Clinic provides treatment and care of kidney disease

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Medical Group nephrology clinic offers evaluation and treatment of renal (kidney) diseases. The most common conditions patients are seen for at the clinic are chronic kidney disease, elevated creatinine, acute kidney injury, hypertension, and kidney

  • AFRL team changing the paradigm of composites materials research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Today’s advanced Air Force technologies require greater material performance for exacting applications. To meet this need, the AFRL Composites Performance team develops new tools to make modern military platforms safer, more affordable, and always ready for