• AFRL partners with Kettering Health Network on human performance research

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate is joining the Kettering Health Network on a quest to learn more about the relationship between human stress and fatigue, and to determine how to improve human performance in stressful situations. Officials announced the unique

  • AFRL's CAESAR researchers win 2008 Federal Laboratory Consortium award

    The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has selected the Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource (CAESAR™) project conducted at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate as winner of a 2008 Award for Excellence in Technology

  • Airmen based in Ohio should file Ohio State taxes

    This year several Airmen have received "delinquent" notices from the state of Ohio advising them they failed to pay Ohio state taxes in past years. These individuals hadn't filed taxes with the state of Ohio because they claimed a state of residence other than Ohio. Generally, an active-duty

  • AFRL auditory horizon project named DOD Hot Technology winner

    Technology developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory to help keep general aviation pilots flying safely in low-visibility conditions has won a contest that highlights top projects within the Department of Defense laboratory network. Researchers at the AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate,

  • AFRL Mesa-based researcher wins Myers Award for applied research

    Dr. Winston "Wink" Bennett, principal scientist for training systems and performance assessment at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate, is one of five individuals selected to receive the 2008 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace. Dr. Bennett

  • Award-winning biologist earns 'Senior Scientist' honors

    Dr. Morley O. Stone, a research biologist at the Air Force Research Laboratory and recipient of several high-level awards, has been named an AFRL Senior Scientist and has been recognized for important advancements in biomimetics and biotechnology that could have a substantial and far-reaching impact

  • Abused Afghan woman to receive plastic surgery

    A 16-year-old woman brutally attacked by her husband in December is set to receive plastic surgery in Kabul following close coordination between the Afghan government and Provincial Reconstruction Team Qalat, a joint U.S. Air Force and Army unit stationed here. Nazia Hookum Darr was beaten and

  • AFMC’s command chief to retire after 30 years of service

    Air Force Materiel Command's top enlisted member will close the book on his military career Feb. 1, exactly 30 years from the date he entered the Air Force delayed enlistment program. Chief Master Sergeant Jonathan Hake, AFMC's command chief, will say goodbye during a retirement ceremony that will

  • Cancer Care program receives $1.1 million grant from the VA

    The Wright-Patterson Cancer Care program has received a $1.1 million grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Those monies are targeted for the addition of personnel and the purchase of equipment and supplies to expand cancer services for both the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department

  • Integrated and comprehensive cancer care

    Cancer patients, both from the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, can be confident of receiving the best of cancer care at Wright-Patterson Medical Center. "Our intent is to pull together the various disciplines that are involved ... and to offer our patients an integrated