• AFMC announces, honors annual enlisted award winners

    A thunderous applause shattered the typically reverent silence at the National Museum of the United States Air Force April 9, as Air Force Materiel Command officials announced their top enlisted Airmen of 2008. More than 300 family members, friends, and wingmen gathered to show their support at the

  • Sensors complex to renovate, add laboratory space

    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville District office has awarded a $36 million contract to Butt Construction of Dayton to renovate and expand the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate complex located on Area B of Wright-Patterson AFB. The project will add approximately 91,000

  • Proposed range will provide training for EOD personnel

    Base officials are accepting public comment on the proposed construction and operation of a range to train Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel here. "It will be used for the proficiency training of EOD personnel and also for any emergency detonations of military munitions coming from communities

  • Gate 19B to close during National Road resurfacing

    A resurfacing project beginning April 20 will require closing National Road between Col. Glenn Highway and Kauffman Road for approximately 3 to 4 weeks. Gate 22B will serve as the 24 hour access point for Area B during the period that Gate 19B will be inaccessible. The road will be completely closed

  • Science Watch Highlights Article by AFOSR-Supported Physicist

    The article, "Unified Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Random Electromagnetic Beams," by AFOSR- supported physicist, Dr. Emil Wolf is highlighted in the April 2009 issue of "Science Watch." Though written six years ago, Thomson Reuters' "Science Watch" website (http://sciencewatch.com) 

  • OSU head football coach visits Wright-Patt

    Ohio State University's head football coach Jim Tressel visited the base for the Coaches Tour 2009 Kickoff Briefing Apr. 7. Thousands of the base's Buckeye fans showed up to get a glimpse of the coach. Coach Tressel and Marcus Freeman, all-star OSU linebacker who enters the NFL's Draft in April,

  • 711 HPW looking forward to first classes

    Fresh off the first anniversary of the unit's standup, the evolution of the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson continues with the announcement of the first classes here. The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine supports the Air Force with research, consultation, and academic