• It's show time! AFMC Tattoo free community event is Friday, June 27

    How does enjoying live music, eating carnival food, watching flyovers and a fireworks show with 75,000 of your closest friends sound? If that's on your to-do list, you're in luck! Friday, June 27 at 8 p.m. the fourth annual AFMC "Freedom's Call" Tattoo will kick-off with fireworks and flyovers on

  • Base housing residents attend Town Hall meeting

    Residents of Green Acres and Pine Estates attended a town hall meeting June 23 at Chapel One here to learn about near-term plans to demolish the two housing areas and their options for moving to other housing in the local area. The two military family housing areas, located in Area C on both sides

  • New commander leads National Air and Space Intelligence Center

    Col. D. Scott George assumed command of the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) June 17 from Col. Karen A. Cleary, who will become the director of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance at Air Force Space Command Peterson AFB, Colo. A ceremony held at the National Museum of

  • AFCPCO Sponsors 39th Annual Air Force Corrosion Conference

    The Air Force Corrosion Prevention and Control Office held its 39th annual Air Force Corrosion Conference on May 13-15 at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia. The 3-day event regularly attracts over 500 government, industry, and academia players involved in all aspects of corrosion

  • AFRL examines technology used to test B-2 aft deck performance

    Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory, working with the 780th Test Squadron Aerospace Survivability and Safety Flight here, have identified an effective method for measuring deformation in the aft deck of the B-2 bomber using a series of special engine tests conducted last year at the

  • WPAFB Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report available on-line

    Base officials have released the annual Drinking Water Quality report Consumer Confidence Report. The calendar year 2007 report can be viewed on line at http://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6682, also accessible from the base 88th Air Base Wing Environmental Management

  • Shortage of Primary Care providers at WPMC generates action

    Air Force officials are responding to a shortage of primary care providers at Wright-Patterson Medical Center here. The Air Force is providing manning and contracting assistance to the 88th Medical Group to help resolve temporary Family Practice Clinic staffing problems caused by vacancies and

  • AFRL-Funded Research Leads to Better Wireless Communications

    The research contributions of Dr. Rachel Learned, an AFRL-funded researcher employed by BAE Systems, have paved the way to clearer radio reception for military personnel deployed in locations prone to signal interference. Through her work in multiuser detection (MUD), which examines the reception of

  • AFRL-Sponsored SuperBot Research Supports Air Force Information Dominance

    AFRL is funding research aimed both at improving SuperBot prediction capabilities and at creating algorithms enabling the robot to detect surprise. SuperBot is a modular, multifunctional, and reconfigurable robot. Conceptually, it is a set of individual robots that work together to solve problems.

  • Oysters Used for Developing Pearl-Like Aircraft Coating

    AFRL is funding University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) scientists who are conducting biomimetic research that could lead to new lightweight, durable aircraft coatings. UDRI senior research scientists Mr. Doug Hansen and Mrs. Karolyn Hansen are investigating oyster shell and pearl formation