• AFRL illuminates flight lines with next generation light cart

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The U.S. Air Force has an inventory of approximately 5,500 diesel light carts that provide flight line and perimeter illumination. This lighting is a necessity for aircraft maintenance, troubleshooting and perimeter lighting to secure the outskirts of

  • AFRL Physicist Wins Top Science Award

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Air Force Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Robert Johnson has won the most prestigious science and technology award in the U.S. Air Force – the Harold Brown Award. The award is given annually to a scientist or engineer who uses scientific research to solve a problem

  • WPAFB Recycling Center’s open house to feature tours

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Nov. 15 is America Recycles Day and to highlight the date the Wright-Patterson AFB Recycling Center is holding an open house from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.Recycling has greatly reduced the amount of trash landfilled on a daily basis. Recent data shows that materials

  • Air Force tests plasma reactor to degrade, destroy PFOS, PFOA

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Civilian researchers completed a two-week field demonstration here Sept. 25 using an innovative plasma technology to degrade and destroy perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, known as PFOS and PFOA, in groundwater.This was the first field

  • Growing, complex institution to celebrate centennial Nov. 7

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Institute of Technology, with headquarters located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will mark a significant milestone next week: the centennial of its functional predecessor and decades of educating Airmen for meeting Air Force missions.With

  • Online pledging continues for annual CFC fund drive

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Combined Federal Campaign participation officially kicked off Oct. 2 at Wright State University’s Nutter Center. Skywrighter staff writer Amy Rollins sat down with CFC chair Joe Nalepka, director of Management Operations,

  • BES holds Collegiate Information Technology Pitch Day

    The Business Enterprises Systems Directorate hosted the inaugural Collegiate Information Technology Pitch Day Oct. 1-2, 2019 at the Alabama State University's Continuing Education building in downtown Montgomery, Alabama.The event welcomed esteemed colleges and universities from across the country,

  • Facility Managers conserving energy at Wright-Patterson AFB

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --- Wright-Patterson facilities are on the right track, according to the results from several weeks of 88th Civil Engineer Group’s energy audit and the energy savings performing contracts when it comes to energy savings. So far both have shown some efficiency