• Wright-Patt Airmen and civilians selected to attend developmental education

    Air Force officials announced Oct. 17 that 36 Wright-Patterson members were among more than 950 selectees service-wide to attend senior and intermediate developmental education programs during the academic 2008-09 year. The selectees come from organizations across the installation and include 27

  • Senior researcher named 'fellow' of American Ceramic Society

    Dr. Randall S. Hay, a senior researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, has been appointed a Fellow of the 6,000-member American Ceramic Society. Dr. Hay works in the Directorate's Metals, Ceramics, and Nondestructive Evaluation  Division and is a

  • AFRL program manager, SBIR companies receive Tibbetts Award

    An Air Force Research Laboratory program manager was recognized Oct .10 at the ninth annual Small Business Innovative Research awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., for his service to the SBIR program in the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. Marvin L. Gale, now assigned as the business

  • Get great information, free stuff at Retiree Appreciation Day

    Retired Col. Paul Moore says people will attend Wright-Patterson's Retiree Appreciation Day here on Oct. 25 for a lot of different reasons. "If the opportunity to learn more about the status of benefits from a prominent speaker doesn't grab you, perhaps free gift certificates from the Army-Air Force

  • Putting a Reaper in the skies over Afghanistan, a chain of successes

    Since late September, the new MQ-9 Reaper has flown daily missions over Afghanistan. The 658th Aeronautical Systems Squadron, in the 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing, comprises the team of program managers, functional supporters, testers and logisticians who were behind the team effort of getting the

  • October’s Young Heroes receive Medals Of Honor

    At noon, Oct. 4, at Wright-Patterson's Chapel 3 in the Prairies at Wright Field, siblings Ada Lillian Kingston and Timothy Desmond Kingston received Young Heroes Medals of Honor. The two were accompanied at the ceremony by their parents, Paula and Niall Kingston, and their brothers, Simon and Leo.

  • AFRL researchers fine-tune F-35 pilot-aircraft speech system

    When the first production F-35 Lightning II rolls out in 2008, communications between pilot and aircraft will enter a new era thanks in part to testing and analysis conducted at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate. The F-35 will be the first U. S. fighter aircraft

  • Miami Valley CFC in full swing on base

    The 2007 Miami Valley Combined Federal Campaign is in full swing and unit representatives are working on getting 100 percent contact in their offices.This year's campaign kicked off with an agency fair at the Ervin J. Nutter Center at Wright State University Oct. 3. Representatives from 112 local,