• Flexible batteries: evolving energy for the ‘new’ reality

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- It’s a $7 million research industry today, expected to be worth $400 million dollars by 2025. For researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, the “energy” spent in this research area is worth much more. By using

  • The Veterans' Voice Project seeks veterans to tell their story

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Wright State University’s Veterans’ Voice Project is on a mission to build bridges between veterans by telling their story and preserving it for generations to come.  The Veteran’s Voice Project staff, comprised of WSU military veteran students, are

  • Break the cycle of bullying

    Bullying is not just a part of life that stops in the schoolyard; it can have consequences that stretch into adulthood and impact people for the rest of their lives.   According to the National Center for Education, one in four children will experience bullying in their lives, and it comes in many

  • New office looks to shape future force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force of the future is taking greater focus as the new Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office is actively pursuing its mission and the experimentation campaigns that it has been chartered to execute. The office will be

  • AFLCMC-Hanscom captain selected for PhD program

    A Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence and Networks system engineer here will take part in the 2017 Chief of Staff of the Air Force Captains Prestigious PhD Program.Capt. Samuel Jones, chief of the advanced capabilities section in the Special Programs Division, is one of three Air Force

  • SMC, ULA Enter into CRADA to Certify Vulcan Launch Vehicle

    The Space and Missile Systems Center signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with United Launch Alliance (ULA) as part of the company’s effort to certify its new Vulcan launch vehicle for National Security Space (NSS) missions. This cooperative, jointly-written agreement

  • Four-time Olympian speaks at AF Marathon events

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Meb Keflezighi, a four-time Olympian and winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon, participated in 2016 Air Force Marathon activities, speaking at the Breakfast of Champions, Expo, pasta dinner and running in the 10K. During his remarks at the Breakfast of

  • AFRL celebrates patents, seeks to further bolster numbers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- It would be safe to assume that a pioneering research and development organization such as the Air Force Research Laboratory possesses its fair share of patented intellectual property.  The fact is that 218 patents have been filed by AFRL since 2011, with 49