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  • Holiday closure of National Park Interpretive Centers

    Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park will be closed Thursday and Friday, Dec. 25 and 26 so that staff can spend time with their families. The Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center, located at 16 South Williams Street, and the Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center, located at 2380

  • Columbus Air Force recruiter named among nation's best for 2008

    Tech. Sgt. Paul Lindsey, a recruiter at Columbus, Ohio, was named among the top 14 Air Force recruiters in the nation.Air Force Recruiting Service officials at Randolph Air Force Base announced their Operation Blue Suit recruiters for fiscal year 2008 this month.  Lindsey is assigned to the 338th

  • Nurse Transition Program graduates its first class

    University Hospital and the U.S. Air Force graduated the first class of ten nurses from the Nurse Transition Program Dec. 11.The NTP is designed to provide college graduate registered nurses the advanced clinical training and experience needed to become Air Force Nurse Corps officers and to prepare

  • AFRL Uses ARTS Technology to Clear Massachusetts Military Reserve

    AFRL researchers used the All-Purpose Remote Transport System, known as ARTS, to perform range clearance functions at the Massachusetts Military Reserve (MMR). ARTS is a robotic operating platform that uses various attachments to perform clearing tasks in areas deemed hazardous due to the presence

  • Lab-Funded MIT Research Enhances Quantum Computers

    AFRL-sponsored research ongoing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is accelerating the development of quantum computers. Quantum computing helps the Air Force pursue important capabilities in cryptoanalysis, or "code breaking"; microwave electronics; and materials science. The

  • WPAFB to sponsor FIRST LEGO League tournaments

    The Educational Outreach Office here will co-sponsor the FIRST LEGO® League (FLL) Regional Tournament at the Wright State University Student Union, Saturday, Dec. 20. This tournament is one of ten regional state qualifying events taking place in Toledo, Canton, Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati during

  • Physicist Honored for Groundbreaking Book and Research

    Renowned physical optics author and AFOSR-supported researcher, Dr. Emil Wolf, received the 2008 Joseph W. Goodman Award for his book, "Introduction to the Theory of Coherence and Polarization of Light," which set a precedent by providing a unified treatment of coherence and polarization. Honoree