• Combined Federal Campaign Kick-off 2010

    The 2010 Miami Valley Combined Federal Campaign begins Wednesday, Oct. 6 with the Agency Fair and Kickoff event at the Ervin J. Nutter Center, 11 a.m. -1 p.m. The CFC campaign runs through Nov. 17. The theme for this year's campaign is, "Give Back Today...Pay It Forward Tomorrow."What is sure to be

  • AFRL concludes Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance flight testing

    The 103rd flight signaled the final effort in this phase of testing for the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, part of the Automatic Collision Avoidance Technology/Fighter Risk Reduction Program.Air Force Research Laboratory researchers, in conjunction with the Air Force Flight Test Center

  • Commemorative flight planned Oct. 2 from Huffman Prairie Flying Field

    Weather permitting, a look alike Wright B Flyer will takeoff here early Saturday morning, Oct. 2, to reenact the first delivery of cargo by air.The flight originating from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base will include a turn over historic Huffman Prairie Flying Field, from where nearly 100 years ago

  • Wright-Patterson Inns take Innkeeper Award

    Wright-Patterson Inns has proven time and time again to be a top notch lodging facility. The facility took the prestigious AFMC Gold Key award for best lodging facility in the MAJCOM and then competed against the best of the best Air Force wide and came out on top. Wright-Patterson Inns is

  • Chat Extractor "ICEs" the Competition

    Responding to requests from the Headquarters Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Innovations office, Air Force Research Laboratory recently delivered ICE--a new Internet Relay Chat Coordinate Extractor that monitors online chat rooms for geospatial coordinates entered during

  • Heritage Symposium is homecoming for AFIT Alumni

    On Sept. 21 and 22 the Air Force Institute of Technology held its 2nd Heritage Symposium. The symposium, while open to the public, was an opportunity for AFIT alumni to celebrate the institute's achievements over the past 90 years and examine its vision for the future.Dr. Robert Calico, past dean of

  • Nanostructuring Technology Creates Energy Efficient and Ultra-Small Displays

    University of Michigan scientists using AFOSR-funding have created the smallest pixels available that will enable LED, projected and wearable displays to be more energy efficient with more light manipulation possible and all on a display that may eventually be as small as a postage stamp.This latest

  • Physicists Observe Electron Ejected from Atom for First Time

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported physicists at the University of California, Berkeley in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, became the first researchers to observe

  • Wet Paint No Barrier to Timely, Accurate Measure of Coating Thickness

    A newly demonstrated technology providing the first-ever nondestructive means to measure the thickness of specialty paint coatings during their application will generate substantial savings for the Air Force. An Air Force Research Laboratory materials engineering team successfully demonstrated the

  • Air Force Marathon sets attendance record

    A record field of 12,000 runners registered for 2010 Air Force Marathon events Sept. 17 - 18 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This year's race participation shattered the previous 2009 Marathon record of 9,969 runners and by Sept. 14 had completely sold out at the pre-determined race cap of