• Shipping traffic delays X-51A launch

    Today's scheduled launch of the X-51A Waverider hypersonic flight test vehicle has been postponed 24 hours. The delay was due to the presence of a freighter transiting in a section of the Point Mugu Naval Air Warfare Center Sea Range several hundred miles off the California coast.A U.S. Navy P-3

  • Air Force Updates Industry on Equipment Needs

    Members of the Air Force Uniform Office (AFUO) attended the Advanced Planning Brief for Industry (APBI) in Springfield, Va., May 19-20, to present and challenge members of industry with current and future design needs for uniforms and equipment. "The overarching goal for us is to make sure the needs

  • AFOSR Encourages Youth to Soar at Rocketry Challenge

    For the fifth year, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research encouraged hundreds of young, aspiring scientists at the Eighth Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge, the world's largest model rocket competition, held in The Plains, Va.TARC is a model rocket competition for high school and middle

  • Air Force Marathon Registration Price to Increase June 1

    The Air Force Marathon registration fees will increase June 1, 2010.The full and half marathon will increase by $10, with the 10K increasing by $5. "We are encouraging runners to register early online not only to save money but to ensure that they get into their desired race," Molly Louden, Air

  • X-51A flight planned May 25

    Weather permitting, Air Force officials said the X-51A Waverider will make its first hypersonic flight test attempt Tuesday, May 25, after it's released by a B-52 bomber off the southern California coast.The unmanned X-51A is expected to fly autonomously for five minutes, powered by a supersonic

  • Air Force chief of staff visits School of Aerospace Medicine

    The Air Force's top uniformed officer toured the 711th Human Performance Wing's U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks City-Base, Texas, May 13.During his visit, the general reflected on the 92-year history of the school and the unique training and education accomplished by the staff

  • New Harmony lights up Urban Nights

    One of the newest ensembles of the U.S. Air Force Band of Flight is New Harmony, who performed on the main stage at Courthouse Square in downtown Dayton, Ohio, during Urban Nights on May 14.The eight-piece band started the event playing "Living in America," by James Brown. Vocalist Senior Airman

  • AFOSR Researcher Selected to Receive 2010 Clayton J. Thomas Award

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researcher, Dr. Gerald G. Brown, a distinguished professor from the Operations Research Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. has been selected the Military Operations Research Society's Clayton J. Thomas Award winner for

  • WPMC to play in National Emergency Management exercise

    The base will participate in a National Emergency Management exercise Monday, May 17 through Friday, May 21. Wright-Patterson Medical Center will be involved in the exercise, especially on May 20. Officials said our customers may experience delays during the entire week due to the exercise, and on

  • AFIT Center for Cyberspace Research earns top score

    According to the results posted May 6 by the National Security Agency, students from the Air Force Institute of Technology's Center for Cyberspace Research, Team Two, earned the best score of the NSA 2010 Cyber Defense Exercise. While AFIT may have won bragging rights, the coveted CDX trophy went to