• Six altitude chambers coming to Wright-Patt

    Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing here will receive four hypobaric research chambers for aircrew research and equipment qualification testing. The Department of Defense announced June 14 the award of a $ 38.3 million contract to Environmental Tectonics Corp., Southampton,

  • AFOSI battles local businesses

    Air Force Office of Special Investigations 10th Field Investigation Squadron participated in Battle of the Businesses from June 5-12, to help raise funds for the Dayton Chapter of Special Olympics. Battle of the Businesses has been an annual event for the last 29 years, where teams made-up of

  • CMSAF visits NASIC, Wright-Patt

    Bustling conversation in the atrium of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center's conference facility was muted as doors to the atrium opened and Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy entered the facility. The silence was broken by applause and cheers as the men and women of NASIC

  • NAVFAC, small business build energy-efficient reserve center for Marines

    Representatives from the Marine Corps, Navy, Army, Air Force, and a local small business officially opened a new home for a Marine reserve unit here June 18.Naval Facilities Engineering Command Midwest partnered with Dayton-based Butt Construction in 2009 to build a $10-million reserve center and

  • Band of Flight honors Korean War heroes with music at Tattoo

    The United States Air Force Band of Flight will join many other organizations here June 25 as it pays tribute to military heroes, tactics and technology at Air Force Materiel Command Freedom's Call Tattoo 2010. The theme of this year's Tattoo is 'Reflections on 60 Years' and will commemorate and

  • Two image collects released by Tactical Satellite-3 demonstration program

    Air Force officials have released two image collects obtained by the Tactical Satellite-3's primary payload, the Advanced Responsive Tactically-Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer, during the experimental demonstration's 13-month mission.One image featuring the Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, and the

  • MUPI Conference Reception Features Keynote on AFRL Opportunities (Diversity)

    Mr. Ed Lee, who manages Air Force Research Laboratory's Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program, was recently the featured speaker at the opening reception for the 2010 Member University Professional Institute Conference: "HBCUs and Beyond, Cultivating Leaders for

  • Optical Societies Honor AFRL Engineer

    Dr. James G. Grote, a principal electronics research engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, earned Fellow status both from the Optical Society of America and from the European Optical Society, where he also now holds the distinction as being the first

  • Aerospace Castings Inspection Enters the Digital Age

    In a move heralding sizable savings of both money and time for the aerospace castings industry--and ultimately, the military--a government/industry collaboration is introducing digital radiography as a viable method for inspecting strategic and complex aerospace castings in accordance with DoD

  • Advanced Composites Office "HAMs" It Up

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Air Force Advanced Composites Office (ACO), located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, recently transitioned to Ogden Air Logistics Center a hot air module  addressing problematic elevated-temperature bonded repairs, which are especially difficult for depot crews working