• Air Force Research Laboratory honors top scientists, engineers

    Air Force Research Laboratory honored 12 outstanding scientists and engineers at the 2014 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards Banquet Oct. 30 for their exceptional contributions to advancing technologies for the warfighter. Eight were awarded AFRL Fellow status, the laboratory's highest award for

  • Hanscom key to Air Force cyber weapons

    With cyberspace unfolding as the newest frontier for battle, the U.S. needs weapon systems geared for that fight, and Hanscom AFB is leading the way.In 2013 the Air Force Chief of Staff designated six of the service's cyber capabilities as weapon systems. While not your typical air or ground

  • Retiree Appreciation Day draws crowd

    Approximately 350 military retirees and other interested attendees gathered Oct. 24 at the Hope Hotel's Richard C. Holbrooke Conference Center for Retiree Appreciation Day. The annual event was designed to better inform retirees of their retirement benefits and current legislative issues."I feel

  • Installation prepares for week-long exercise

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base's workforce will take part in a quarterly exercise designed to test and evaluate their responses to a variety of emergency situations Nov. 3-7.While installation operations will continue as scheduled with minimal disruptions, personnel can expect to see and hear

  • Change the climate, change the culture: You make the difference

    Climate change has shaped mankind, influencing the location and productivity of man; changing the human culture. Like the weather climate, every Airman, civilian and contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has the power to positively affect the organizational climate.  Through treating each

  • Pitching in to help with landscape maintenance

    As an example of being good stewards of the Air Force budget, a team of co-workers from the 88th Air Base Wing Headquarters (Bldg. 10, Area A) participated in landscape maintenance work Oct. 24. 

  • Wright-Patt graduate students benefit from new scholarship

    More than seven dozen members of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base community are furthering their post-undergraduate education, thanks to scholarships available through a new program at Wright State University.In its first semester of operation for fall 2014, the $750,000 Wright State University

  • Office tests capabilities of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Engine Component Improvement Program (CIP) recently began tests on the F135 -- the propulsion system for the F-35 Fighter -- at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.The engine, which is uninstalled from the plane

  • Officer career mentoring event planned at AFIT

    The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base 6X Development Team will host a career mentoring event Nov. 13 and on Nov. 21 at the Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Kennedy Hall.The event is aimed at 61/ 62 /63 officers and their supervisors to learn more about 6X military career advancement. Topics

  • Operation 1000 Cherry Tree Project plants 50 more trees near AF Museum

    Property along Springfield Street across from the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force received a facelift on Oct. 26 and will look even different in the upcoming years with the addition of 46 Akebono Yoshino Cherry trees that were planted through the Operation 1000 Cherry Tree Project.Four other