• New Air Force health mobile app available for patients

    The Air Force Medical Service has launched a new mobile app to connect Airmen and patients to news and information about the AFMS. The new app is a mobile version of the AFMS website, and lets users customize their experience based on the Air Force military treatment facility (MTF) they use. This

  • Hanscom proves PlugTest acquisition model

    HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass., - Hanscom Collaboration and Innovation Center personnel here completed the first successful Air Force PlugTest of software for Electronic Flight Bags June 9, resulting in a $1.3 million contract award.   PlugTests pit potential contractors against each other by hosting

  • Free resources help DOD civilians maintain & improve their health

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Materiel Command and Federal Occupational Health Civilian Health Promotion Services partnered to create opportunities to improve civilian health and well-being through health screenings, educational classes and awareness campaigns through the

  • 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,