• "AIMing" to Improve ISR Data Availability

    With successful testing of Air Force Research Laboratory's Advanced Information Management System comes a powerful new capability for high-speed recording, cataloguing, and brokering--and near-real-time dissemination--of critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information for

  • Geolocation Goes Underground With Latest Advance

    Location-finding technology has descended to a new level of low--beneath the earth's surface, that is. Air Force Research Laboratory sensors scientists participated in successful demonstration testing of subsurface navigation technology, which provides navigational solutions for scenarios involving

  • FalconSAT-5 Tests a Win-Win for AFRL/Academy Interests

    United States Air Force Academy cadets assisted the Air Force Research Laboratory workforce at Edwards Air Force Base, California, in conducting recent FalconSAT-5 operational testing. Historically, the collaboration between the two organizations has proven mutually beneficial, and this recent

  • New Ways of Measuring Catastrophic Risks May Enhance Air Force Efforts

    Noted Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researcher, Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky is pioneering a new approach for measuring, anticipating and managing catastrophic risks, sometimes called "Black Swans" or natural catastrophes like hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis and floods that may

  • Wright-Patt Captain Awarded The Bronze Star

    United States Air Force Capt. Derek Williamson modestly says he was just doing his job but the United States Army says otherwise. For exceptionally meritorious service while deployed to a combat zone in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM last year, Captain Williamson has been awarded the Bronze

  • Air Force Collaborates With Marines For More Effective Disaster Response

    If a major disaster such as a terrorist Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, High Explosive, or CBRNE, event occurs in a community, or a massive accident occurs at a hospital or industrial facility, specialized military teams are ready to deploy to assist overwhelmed civilian first

  • NASIC commander selected for promotion to brigadier general

    National Air and Space Intelligence Center commander Col. D. Scott George was nominated for promotion to brigadier general by President Obama March 15. Col. George was one of 29 officers identified from across the Air Force as brigadier general selects.  The nomination next goes before the Senate

  • Wright-Patt Reserve unit to receive C-17s

    The Air Force Reserve Command announced today it will replace 10 C-5  Galaxy aircraft with eight C-17s at the 445th Airlift Wing here.The decision, approved by the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Air Force fulfills the plan for retirement of the 445th Airlift Wing's aging C-5A aircraft and

  • International brass sensation to perform with Band of Flight

    Mnozil Brass will perform as guest artists with the U.S. Air Force Band of Flight for a public concert inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's Modern Flight Gallery Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m.This concert is part of the Vienna, Austria group's first U.S. tour that will take them from