• Engineers prepare to break ground for BRAC

    The $330 million facility construction effort required to bring multiple missions to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure is under way. On Sept. 26, 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for the first step - a fiscal year 2007

  • New STEM school could benefit Air Force mission

    When the Ohio Board of Regents awarded $600,000 in state funds Feb. 15 to Dayton to develop a special school aimed at educating tomorrow's high-tech workers, the Air Force Research Laboratory was one step closer to being a direct beneficiary of the schools' graduates. Students attending the new STEM

  • Air Force contracting executive to lead new human performance wing

    Air Force officials announced today that Thomas S. Wells, a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, will lead the new 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wells comes to the new wing after serving first as deputy director, then director, of contracting at

  • Columbus man loses 120 pounds to join Air Force

    For as long as he can remember, Daniel Kuertz said he has admired the uniformed Airmen in his community of Columbus, Ohio. As he grew into a young man, Kuertz said joining the Air Force was a logical conclusion, considering many people in his family served in the military, including his father, Greg

  • AFOSR Continues History of Success with NDSEG Fellowship Program

    As part of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) prepares for the 2008 application review meeting, which will take place February 15-17 in Arlington, Va. NDSEG is a Department of Defense (DoD) fellowship program

  • Afghans complete advanced medical training

    Less than a month after a basic Emergency Medical Technician training class graduated here, seven more Afghan men entered the medical career field after graduating from a nursing school program facilitated by the joint Air Force and Army Provincial Reconstruction Team here. The 12-month training

  • AFRL engineers support mobile inspection system evaluation

    Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineers traveled to Alaska to help evaluate a system designed to reduce the danger military personnel face while performing under-vehicle searches for explosives."This system helps ensure the safety of military personnel by

  • AFRL coating named one of 100 most significant technologies

    An environmentally safe corrosion control coating for aluminum aircraft surfaces and structures developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Rolla, Boeing Phantom Works, Deft Coatings and Warner-Robins Air