• AFRL-developed Advanced Removal Tools Reduce Maintenance Time and Cost

    The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) developed and commercialized coatings-removal technology for stealth aircraft that is quicker, safer, and more cost effective than the currently used removal tools and procedures. These new implements--which include a heat-blade process, impact and pneumatic

  • AFRL Develops Promising Space Object Detection Technique

    Jeanne DaileyThe Air Force Research Laboratory's Satellite Assessment Center (SatAC) has developed a method to detect satellites using a small telescope at distances over three times farther than a geo orbit (over 70,000 mi.) and fainter than 14th magnitude. Earlier schemes for small-scope space

  • Wingmen help couple with painful loss of child

    Editor's note: Having the ability to recover from or adjust to misfortune or change is the definition of resilience, and that's something the Air Force wants all personnel to have as they deal with the stress that is part of their daily lives as they support the Air Force mission. A group of five

  • Wright-Patt to offer early retirements, separations

    Employees have been advised they may begin submitting applications for early retirement and separation benefits on July 21. The deadline for applications is August 1. Approved employees must retire or separate on September 30. As part of the Air Force Management Headquarters Review, a broad range of

  • Wright-Patterson AFB airmen among 9,403 promoted to staff sargeant

    The names of more than 9,000 senior airmen selected for promotion to staff sergeant was released by Air Force officials July 10.The 9,403 airmen selected represent 25.59 percent of the 36,739 eligible. Those Airmen at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base selected for promotion include:· 18th Intelligence

  • Wright-Patterson employee earns AFA award

    An Air Force Life Cycle Management Center employee is among the winners of the 2014 Air Force Association Outstanding Air Force Civilian of the Year awards.Daryl Kitchen, director of logistics, Mobility Directorate, is AFA's Civilian Senior Manager of the Year. Kitchen received the award for his

  • Devillier takes command of wing

    Col. John Devillier succeeded Col. Cassie Barlow as commander of the 88th Air Base Wing during a change of command ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force July 17.During the ceremony, Lt. Gen. C.D. Moore II, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander and the ceremony's presiding

  • Air Force to highlight S&T priorities at industry event

    Creating tomorrow's Air Force is a delicate balance. It requires a mix of science and technology investment to meet current warfighter needs, as well as cutting edge research to develop revolutionary capabilities which today's Airmen can only imagine, and may not see fielded this decade.That is one