• Jobs Fair Nov. 5 at Hope Hotel

    As part of the ongoing "Year of the Air Force Family" celebration, base officials will hold a jobs fair for military affiliated families Thursday, Nov. 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Hope Hotel here. The event is open to active duty and reserve military personnel from all branches, prior service

  • Lab-Sponsored UM Researcher Wins Prestigious Presidential Award

    Dr. Anthony Grbic, an Air Force Research Laboratory-funded principal investigator at the University of Michigan, earned Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers program accolades for his research of artificial surfaces and materials--otherwise known as metamaterials. The PECASE

  • AFRL Funds Superfast Secure Computing

    Air Force Research Laboratory-funded physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or superfast, computers that will improve the security of storing and transmitting data on Air Force systems. This work is significant amid considerable concern regarding

  • New Lab-Funded Magnetron May Help Defeat Enemy Electronics

    Air Force Research Laboratory-funded researchers at the University of Michigan invented a new type of magnetron that may be used in defeating enemy electronics. A vital component of military radar systems since World War II, a magnetron is a kind of vacuum tube that serves as the frequency source in

  • MapStrata Brings New Layer of Depth to Situational Awareness

    A research partnership between Air Force Research Laboratory, the University of Southern California, and small business Geosemble Technologies is working to advance Air Force situational awareness through a software capability that presents vast amounts of map data in a more manageable and

  • Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie

    Base Environmental along with Ohio Department of Natural Resource Division of Wildlife will conduct a controlled burn of Huffman Prairie on Nov. 3, weather permitting. The controlled burn is used to maintain and expand existing prairie vegetation as well as prohibit the spread of invasive woody

  • Wright-Patt program earns top honors

    The Workforce Recruitment Program here was named the Most Improved Program in 2009 by the Air Force's Equal Opportunity Office for its efforts in hiring students with disabilities from around the Miami Valley. The WRP is an opportunity for disabled college students to work on base as summer interns

  • Air Force Releases Guidance for wear of PTU

    The Air Force has released guidance this month for wear of the physical training uniform, replacing previous guidance in Air Force Instruction36-2903. According to the message released from Air Force A1 and signed by Lt. Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, deputy chief of staff for Manpower and Personnel,

  • PECASE Winner Plans to Continue Research in Detection

    Air Force Research Laboratory-funded Dr. Scott Craver, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Binghamton University, is investigating the development of detectors that are resistant to exploitation for an adversary's algorithms. Dr. Craver and his research team are also