• AF awards KC-46A Aircrew Training System contract

    The Air Force today awarded a contract to FlightSafety Services Corporation, taking a major step forward in achieving the service's top acquisition priority - delivering a new aerial refueling capability to the warfighter. The contract, a Fixed Price Incentive Firm (FPIF) and Firm Fixed Price (FFP)

  • Eglin munitions unit creates ammo linker for AFSOC

    A new lighter, mobile 30mm ammo linker system is set for delivery to Air Force Special Operations Command units in May.The 89-pound apparatus that feeds 15 unattached 30mm rounds into MK-15 links via a crank system was created and designed by the Airmen of Eglin's Munitions Materiel Handling

  • Base to conduct quarterly exercise

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base officials will conduct quarterly exercises April 29-May 3. Several independent, simulated scenarios are planned, ranging from terrorist attacks utilizing a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear agent; to a tornado; to mass casualties; to air piracy; and force

  • Base volunteers help build near-by Habitat for Humanity home

    Dayton Habitat for Humanity held a house dedication ceremony April 24 on State Street in Fairborn about one quarter mile from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Numerous volunteers who took part in the humanitarian project were on hand to see the newly constructed, four-bedroom house. Diane Graham,

  • AFIT wins annual Cost Conscious Culture Award

    The Department of Systems Engineering and Management (ENV) Team of the Graduate School of Engineering and Management at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) won the Air University level C3 (Cost Conscious Culture) Team annual award by saving a total of $344,000 from January to December 2012

  • RHA Conducts LVC SIDFOT Demonstration at Calamityville

    The Human Effectiveness Directorate's Warfighter Readiness Research Division (RHA) conducted a Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) Sensor Integration and Data Fusion for Operations and Training (SIDFOT) demonstration March 15, 2013, at a training and research facility called Calamityville in

  • Athelets of endurance

    They have been training all year long, and now it's time to see if their hard work pays off.Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has a Varsity Triathlon Team that consists of 12 members.Recruiting for the team started in December 2012 and finished with the team selection in February. The team was started

  • KC-46 progressing on track

    The top acquisition priority in the Air Force - acquiring a new aerial refueling capability - is proceeding "on track" according to Maj. Gen. John Thompson, Program Executive Officer for Tankers.Two years and several key milestones after the contract was awarded, a great deal of progress has been

  • Air Force Marathon 10K sells out before price increase

    Even with 500 more runners, the Air Force Marathon 10K sold out on April 1 - just before the prices increased for all races. "In 2012, it was just under 12 weeks for the 10K to close out," said Rob Aguiar, race director. "This year, we rearranged the individual race quotas to add 500 more runners to