• ’Tis the season to give to Marine Corps Toys for Tots holiday campaign

    As the holiday season heats up, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is again participating in the Marine Corps Toys for Tots campaign by hosting collection sites for new, unwrapped toys for children until Dec 15. Marines and volunteers will gather the donated toys and distribute them as Christmas gifts

  • AFIT Lauded for Lower Energy Consumption

    Competition builds winners, leaders, innovations and success stories. In the case of a recent competition at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, it also saves money.As part of the base's observance of October as National Energy Action Month (EAM), a consumption reduction challenge was issued to 10 of

  • AFRL aiming to increase energy security through microgrids

    The Air Force Research Laboratory, in conjunction with the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies, is exploring microgrid and alternative fuel technologies in an effort to move military operations toward a greater degree of energy independence.Under the terms of a recently-signed

  • Plasma Physics and Sensors Laboratory host Pizza and Plasma Event

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's, Sensors Directorate,  Plasma Physics and Sensors Lab (PPSL) here at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, recently held a poster session and tour with a theme of 'Pizza and Plasma.'While the word "plasma" may conjure up the yellow-colored liquid component of blood in

  • Gate 1A to Change Operating Hours

    Gate 1A (Fairborn gate) in Area A at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will reduce its hours of operation from 24 to 16 hours per day, opening from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. The change will take place Nov. 29 when the gate closes at 10

  • Providing the place: WPAFB and the Dayton Peace Accords

    It's difficult to think of peace right now; the attacks on Paris are in the hearts and on the minds of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the local community. News stations cycle updates 24/7 and social media vibrates with more personal expressions of peace and patriotism--all homegrown efforts to

  • Holiday Cookie Drive Returning

    Cookie bakers who have a soft spot in their hearts for hungry unaccompanied Airmen will want to note Dec.2 on their calendars. That's when the 15th annual Airmen's Holiday Cookie Drive at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will take place from 6 a.m. to noon at the Community and Airman Center (CAC),