• Air Force Petroleum Office serves a critical multi-faceted function

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Petroleum office provides global petroleum and aerospace energy management, technical expertise, and logistics capabilities to active, Guard and Reserve Air Force fuels-management teams worldwide.Headquartered at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, with

  • Hatch Act covers election-time rules of conduct

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- With national, state and local elections less than four months away, now is an appropriate time to review specific rules governing what can and cannot be done on government time, equipment and/or property — as well as roles one can assume “as a government

  • Zika Preparedness and Response in Ohio

    The Florida Department of Health has gathered enough information as part of its ongoing investigation into non-travel related cases of Zika in Miami-Dade and Broward counties to conclude that a high likelihood exists that four cases are the result of local transmission. At this time, the Florida

  • Centers for Disease Control Zika Health Advisory

      This is an official CDC HEALTH ADVISORY  Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network August 1, 2016, 1300 ET (1:00 PM ET) CDCHAN-00393 CDC Guidance for Travel and Testing of Pregnant Women and Women of Reproductive Age for Zika Virus Infection Related to the Investigation for Local Mosquito-borne

  • Research students demonstrate high-tech achievements

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 711th Human Performance Wing’s Gaming Research Integration for Learning Laboratory® held Demo Day July 29 at the Wright Brothers Institute’s Tec^Edge Innovation & Collaboration Center here.            The demonstrations featured science, technology,

  • AFLCMC brings 'home' six Air Force acquisition awards

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Airmen from the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center were recently recognized with six of the prestigious Acquisition Excellence and Leadership awards for fiscal year 2015, in an announcement by Darlene Costello, the Air Force Service Acquisition

  • Transparent leadership: An old concept for modern times

    We’ve living in an age of hyper-connectivity. With sensors everywhere and supercomputers in our pockets, there’s a wealth of information available to everyone, whether it’s a review of a restaurant, an updated Air Force Instruction or the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow (African or