• C-17 LAIRCM mods restarted

    Work on the C-17 LAIRCM, or Large Aircraft Infrared Countermeasures System, has been restarted at Robins. For the first time in two years, the modification line has come to life with a new crew of sheet metal and aircraft mechanics, electricians and hydraulics technicians from the 562nd Aircraft

  • AFRL plays major role in historic near-space jump

    For more than nine minutes Oct. 14, an international audience watched as Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner egressed from a capsule 128,000 feet above the earth and fell toward the planet reaching speeds of 834 miles per hour, to become the first person to break the sound barrier outside a

  • Forum spawns ‘big data’ collaboration

    Enhanced information sharing and partnership are among the benefits expected to stem from an early-October forum co-sponsored by Hanscom Air Force Base and the Department of Transportation's Volpe Transportation Center.The forum held at the Volpe Center brought together a number of experts from

  • PEO stresses importance of relationships

    The program executive officer for C3I&N provided an update on his organization and emphasized working together during a presentation to an industry group at the Minuteman Commons here Oct. 25.Speaking to approximately 100 attendees, Maj. Gen. Craig Olson told a personal story about working with

  • NASIC looks back 50 years at predecessor's role in Cuban Missile Crisis

    Fifty years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy informed the American public that the Soviet Union was constructing missile installations on Cuba, and demanded the Soviets remove these missiles. The days surrounding the historic announcement became known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Long

  • Mobile App to help 'guide' military members

    Wouldn't it be great to receive a weather report, a listing of the day's activities and directions to important buildings as you travel from base to base? All that and more is possible by accessing a new mobile application that brings the latest guidebook to the user's fingertips and contains

  • AFMC Intelligence Squadron redesignated as 21st Intelligence Squadron

    One of the last key pieces of the new five-center construct of Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) fell in place Oct. 12. As part of its move from HQ AFMC to the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC), the AFMC Intelligence Squadron, based at Wright-Patter-son Air Force Base, was redesignated

  • SR 444 Milestones report: Gate taking shape

    The arrival of a new, prefabricated Gate 1A guard shack is one of the most recent highlights of the State Route 444 project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The 1.5-mile-long federal portion of SR 444 that bisected Area A was closed Oct. 9 to improve base security.The guard shack was delivered

  • Quarterly exercise may cause delays

    Base officials will conduct quarterly exercises here Oct. 29 - Nov. 2. Several independent scenarios are planned ranging from a simulated robbery of a base facility to an active shooter in an office building. Many base operations will continue as scheduled with minimal disruptions, however personnel