• AFCEC to host Air Force Encroachment Management Symposium

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Regional Development Planning Branch hosts the annual Air Force Encroachment Management, or AFEM, training event Aug. 1-3, at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.    The symposium provides encroachment management stakeholders with the knowledge and skills necessary to

  • New adventures await at Famcamp/Bass Lake

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 88th Force Support Squadron Outdoor Recreation’s Famcamp, located at Bass Lake in Area A, Building 4057, provides boats, canoes, kayaks, paddleboats (one pirate shaped paddleboat) fishing poles, hybrid cruiser bikes and Wright-Patterson Air Force base

  • Life can be tough, PHAP makes getting help easy

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brittney Snider began performing medical procedures on her dolls as a young child and started volunteering at her local hospital at age 13. “My mom said when I cared for my babies, I used to put band aids and fake IVs in them,” said Snider. “I just liked

  • 711th HPW recovery science team hopes to extend AF careers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 7l1th Human Performance Wing’s Airman Systems Directorate is stepping into an area of science to find ways to improve not only Airmen’s physical training and performance, but also how they recover. After watching members of special operations train during

  • New annual Mental Health Assessment requirement begins July 31

    Starting July 31, 2017, Airmen undergoing their annual Periodic Health Assessment may notice something new. A Mental Health Assessment will now be part of every annual PHA, to help ensure that Airmen suffering from undiagnosed mental health issues are referred to the necessary care. Mental health

  • Planning a system’s entire life cycle

    The Development Planning team is charged with equipping the force for future challenging operational environments. The office is currently supporting two capability development analysis projects. One is in the early acquisition stages and has the goal of upgrading a command and control system housed

  • Volunteers needed for Run for the Fallen, run registration open

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Volunteers are still needed as the Wright-Patterson community continues to honor those who perished in the 9/11 attacks with the fourth annual Run for the Fallen scheduled for September 11, 2017.Volunteers are needed to help set up markers for the 5k run and

  • Changing computing and networking forever, one qubit at a time

    ROME, New York – There was a time when transoceanic travel was a fantasy, the mentioning of space travel could get you committed and the thought of 16GB of RAM in your computer was something only for the ultra-rich. But technology, like time, changes and every so often a breakthrough happens. It’s