• Hydraulic Fluid Purification could soon be a DoD-wide program

    The Air Force is constantly looking for ways to support its war-fighting mission in a way that is cost effective and environmentally friendly while still providing maximum efficiency. Don Streeter, Environmental Engineer, Air Force Plant #4, USAF HFP P2 Project, has been a driving force to bring

  • Rare diseases may create invisible handicaps

    February 28 is designated as Rare Disease Day. The National Institute of Health classifies a rare or orphan disease as one with fewer than 200,000 cases in the country. This day is not one of celebration, but one of education. It is a day that would have gone by in a blink for me until I became one

  • New Measurement Into Biological Polymer Networks

    The development of a new measurement technology under a research project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation is probing the structure of composite and biological materials."Our results have provided some of the first microscopic insights into a

  • HUMAN PERFORMANCE WING GIVES RPA PILOTS MORE DYNAMIC MANEUVERING ABILITY

    Remotely Piloted Aircraft pilots will be better able to fly as if they were in the aircraft thanks to a system that will give them more ability to dynamically maneuver the plane.The 711th Human Performance Wing's Human Effectiveness Directorate, Warfighter Interface Division, Supervisory Control

  • TOPS IN BLUE set to entertain at Nutter Center

    The U.S. Air Force's TOPS IN BLUE is offering a free night of family entertainment in the Ervin J. Nutter Center at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 March 2011.This year, TOPS IN BLUE continues its long-standing tradition of "family entertaining family" by showing us what has made TOPS IN BLUE a "must-see"

  • USAFSAM closes one chapter and begins another

    The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine marked the end of an era on Feb. 17 by ceremonially decommissioning the Brooks-based school after 85 years in San Antonio, a final step in its transition to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Nearly 600 people including a host of active and retired general officers,

  • Nanofabrication Tools May Make Silicon Optical Chips More Accessible

    In an effort to make it easier to build inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips, which allow computers to move information with light and electricity, a University of Washington photonics professor, Dr. Michael Hochberg and his research team are developing design tools and