• AFRL gains national recognition for STEM outreach

    The Department of Defense needs to produce enough high-caliber science, technology, engineering and mathematics talent to ensure the U.S. maintains superiority in national defense. Fortunately, innovative Air Force STEM programs across the country are making a difference. The Air Force Research

  • Hanscom-managed program helps save Airman's life

    A program managed here that helps gets supplies safely to warfighters recently was used in Afghanistan to help save an Airman's life.The Dynamic Retasking Capability Urgent Operational Need provides the ability for C-17 and C-130J aircraft to be directed to an alternative location with up-to-date

  • AFLCMC awards contract for rapidly deployable air traffic control system

    Officials at the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued a $50.6 million Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract award to Raytheon Co. on April 24 to provide the U.S. Air Force with rapidly deployable air traffic control systems that can be deployed and operated anywhere in the

  • Law enforcement officers keep us safe

    It's Friday night. You've got the sport utility vehicle loaded up, kids and all, on your way to that highly anticipated summer blockbuster movie. You're running slightly behind schedule for the 7 p.m. showing and to make up for lost time, you gradually accelerate until you're exceeding the speed

  • Air Fore Reserch Laboratory earns elite VPP "Star Site" status

    A representative from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base April 25 to recognize Air Force Research Laboratory Headquarters for earning Voluntary Protection Program Star Site status.Dale Henderson, OSHA compliance specialist for the

  • Air Force Marathon half and 5K sell out

    The Air Force Marathon half marathon and 5K sold out last week.Several of the Air Force Marathon charity partners have half marathon slots available for interested runners. The full marathon is more than 80 percent full and organizers anticipate filling the rest of the slots within the next couple

  • Research Altitude Chamber arrives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

    The first of four Research Altitude Chambers arrived April 25, 2013, at the 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW) for use at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM). The hypobaric chambers will support the operational mission for USAFSAM, which includes human performance

  • AFOSR-funded research key to revolutionary 'green' spacecraft propellant

    In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant -- one which has reduced toxicity and is environmentally benign.In 2015, NASA, for the first time, will fly a space mission utilizing a radically different propellant--one which has reduced

  • Air Force concludes successful roofing pre-proposal conference

    On Wednesday, 17 April 2013, the Enterprise Sourcing Group (ESG) hosted a Pre-Proposal Conference at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. As part of its planned $325M acquisition of roof replacement and repair for active duty Air Force facilities across the Contiguous U.S. (CONUS), the ESG invited

  • X-51A Waverider achieves history in final flight

    The final flight of the X-51A Waverider test program has accomplished a breakthrough in the development of flight reaching Mach 5.1 over the Pacific Ocean on May 1 a little after 10 a.m. Pacific Time. "It was a full mission success," said Charlie Brink, X-51A program manager for the Air Force