• Leading materials engineer and program manager earns international award

    George F. Schmitt, Jr., of the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), has received the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) International Award for Armaments Cooperation. The award is presented each year to individuals within the Command in recognition of

  • Date set for Retiree Appreciation Day

    The Retiree Activities Office here has announced the next Retiree Appreciation Day will take place Oct. 29 at the Hope Hotel. Plans are already underway to make the event even larger and more informative than last year's event, which attracted some 350 retirees, said retired Air Force Col. Paul

  • Research leads to improved wireless communication

    An Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded researcher whose work focused on Multi-User Detection (MUD) technology has made radio reception clearer where interference is a challenge for the military in theater. Dr. Rachel Learned's AFOSR-supported doctoral work in multi-user detection examined

  • Air Force sponsors research to improve antennas for micro air vehicles

    Professor Richard James of the University of Minnesota is an AFOSR-funded scientist who has discovered a systematic approach to nanotechnology based on the concept of objective structures. Dr. James designs new materials that look like carbon nanotubes using innovative and powerful mathematical

  • WPAFB Ghost Hunters episode to air Wednesday

    Ghost Hunters fans will now have a chance to decide for themselves whether one of the Air Force's oldest installations is haunted. Wright-Patterson will go prime time when the base's premiere episode airs Wednesday, April 9 at 9 and 11 p.m. on the Sci-Fi Channel, as part of the all-new fourth season

  • Researchers explore materials degradation in space

    When Space Shuttle Endeavor launched in March, more than 1,000 new materials were onboard to be tested as a part of the sixth Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-6. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research initiated MISSE-6 to gain a theoretical understanding of the

  • Researchers honored for work with self-healing plastics

    Professors Scott White and Nancy Sottos, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have been awarded several recent honors for their breakthrough research in self-healing plastics. In January 2008, they were included in the

  • Researchers honored for work with self-healing plastics

    Professors Scott White and Nancy Sottos, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have been awarded several recent honors for their breakthrough research in self-healing plastics. In January 2008, they were included in the

  • Biofuel research could result in alternative energy source

    Air Force-funded biofuel researchers are investigating ways to produce large quantities of hydrogen gas using photosynthetic microbes, commonly known as algae and cyanobacteria. In large quantities, the hydrogen gas could function as a renewable, cheap and clean energy source for future military