• New look for Medical Center Web Page

    People interested in Wright-Patterson Medical Center will find a wealth of information on the newly redesigned public Web page. The page, located at www.wpafb.af.mil/units/wpmc, officially went live Dec. 11 and can be quickly accessed via popular Web search engines. It replaces wpmc1.wpafb.af.mil,

  • Military retirees welcome at special holiday meal

    Military retirees and their families not wanting to spend Christmas Day at home in front of the oven are welcome to dine in the Pitsenbarger Dining Facility here. The holiday meal will be served Dec. 25 between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. Services officials said the planned menu includes shrimp cocktail,

  • CFC contributions reaches more than $2.8 million

    The 2007 Combined Federal Campaign Recognition Breakfast took place at Wright-Patterson's Hope Hotel Dec. 6. Maj. David Ratcliffe, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, was the event emcee. Following breakfast, Jackie Phillips, executive director for the Miami Valley CFC, introduced guest

  • UN officials travel from NYC to Afghanistan

    Five years after the creation of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, top officials from UN headquarters in New York continue to visit even the most remote districts of this war-torn country. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jane Holl Lute and members of her

  • Air Force, State sign collaboration agreement

    The Air Force and the State of Ohio signed an agreement today that will help support the military mission and foster economic development within the state. Maj. Gen. Bedke, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, signed the Memorandum of Understanding during a

  • Police reform aims to strengthen Afghanistan

    As this year shapes up to be the bloodiest in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, Coalition military experts on the ground here are working to help reverse that trend through police reform. Seven teams from the Combined Transition Command Afghanistan in Kabul make up the Focused

  • A-10 office wins Top 5 award

    The A-10 Precision Engagement Program, based out of the A-10 Development Systems Office here, recently won the Department of Defense and National Defense Industrial Association's Systems Engineering Group's Top 5 DOD Programs Award. The A-10 PE Program is developed by the A-10 Prime Team, which

  • Structural Health Monitoring Tests May Aid Access to Space

    AFRL recently tested a Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system that may help improve rapid access to space. The test activity leaves researchers just one step away from developing an Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) vehicle, a craft capable of launching quickly, returning to earth, and