• Air Force awards Adaptive Engine Transition Program contracts

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Propulsion Directorate here has issued two separate contracts to design, develop, fabricate, and test complete, flight-weight, centerline, 45,000-pound thrust-class adaptive engines in the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP).The contracts were

  • Changing Air Force healthcare through innovation

    Innovation is a buzzword often associated with new technology platforms or successful sports teams, but in reality innovation can apply anywhere someone comes up with a new idea or way of doing something.When it comes to health innovation and research, it’s all about finding new solutions to improve

  • Air Force Research Lab engineer recognized as Champion of Small Business

    In recognition for her advocacy of small firms in the government sector, AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineer Amber Davis has been named a recipient of the Small Business Technology Council's 2016 Champion of Small Business Technology Commercialization Award.Davis was nominated for

  • AFRL and partners develop remote access tool for aircraft inspections

    Mr. Charles Buynak, a research engineer from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, recently completed an effort to develop a portable Surgical Nondestructive Evaluation (SuNDE) tool that provides a supplemental field-level aircraft inspection capability for the

  • Koeniger assumes leadership of 711th Human Performance Wing

    Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Mark A. Koeniger assumed the top position of the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing during a ceremony here June 28, 2016.Koeniger took the reins from Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Timothy T. Jex during a change of command held at the National Museum of the United States

  • Threat viz: A decade of threat modeling

    Dynamic explosions, missile launches and air-to-air dogfights are just a few animations the National Air and Space Intelligence Center threat visualization team create to help communicate potential threats in the world.For the last decade, these types of animations have allowed policymakers at all

  • Band selects winning song

    Dr. Schneata Shyne-Turner has won the first "SongWrighting" contest with her original work, "Back Where I Belong."A panel of judges from the Air Force Band of Flight selected the winning entry.Shyne-Turner, a management and program analyst with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is not a

  • Airmen prepare to combat drunk driving during holiday weekend

    The upcoming Independence Day weekend represents a great opportunity to celebrate one of our nation's most important holidays, but for a volunteer group of Airmen at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, it provides the chance to save lives and keep fellow Airmen safe.The committee for Airmen Against