• AFRL to hold ribbon cutting for Condor supercomputer

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate at Rome N.Y. will conduct a ribbon cutting Dec. 1 on a most unlikely supercomputer: a cluster of 1,760 Sony PlayStation 3 processors and 168 general-purpose Graphical Processing Units.Nicknamed the Condor Cluster, the PlayStation 3 processors

  • Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie

    Base Environmental along with Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry will conduct a controlled burn of Huffman Prairie on Tuesday, Nov. 16, weather permitting. The original date for the burn as Nov 9, but was canceled due to unfavorable winds.The controlled burn is used to

  • AFRC takes home its first Marathon MAJCOM Challenge

    The Air Force Reserve Command was announced as the winner of the 2010 Air Force Marathon MAJCOM Challenge winner recently at CORONA Fall topping the service's list of major commands. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz presented the coveted trophy to Lt. Gen. Charles Stenner, AFRC

  • Air Force names two new leaders at AFRL

    Air Force Manpower and personnel officials at the Pentagon announced Nov. 4 a change in leadership for two key organizations within the Air Force Research Laboratory here.Wendell Banks, will succeed Dr. David Jerome as director of AFRL's Sensors Directorate. Mr. Banks is currently AFRL's director

  • Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie

    Base Environmental along with Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry will conduct a controlled burn of Huffman Prairie on Tuesday, Nov. 9, weather permitting.The controlled burn is used to maintain and expand existing prairie vegetation as well as prohibit the spread of invasive

  • Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded Physicists

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, announced recently the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Professor Andre Geim and Dr. Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester for their 2004 graphene research.Mr. Geim and Dr. Novoselov achieved science's highest

  • Title III Nets Honors for High-Temperature Superconducting Advances

    Having not long ago finished a 5-year effort to establish commercial production capabilities for yttrium barium copper oxide-coated high-temperature superconductor wire--a technology that will significantly increase device energy efficiency for several military and industrial applications--a team