• Engineers Select Air Force Basic Research Program Manager for Fellowship

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. recently selected an Air Force Office of Scientific Research program manager here as a Fellow for its class of 2007. IEEE selected Dr. Harold Weinstock, AFOSR's Quantum Electronic Solids Research Program Manager, on factors that included

  • AFOSR Provides Presence at World's Largest Model Rocket Contest

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here provided staff, information, and an exhibit for hundreds of participants and visitors at the 4 th Annual Team America Rocketry Challenge national finals Saturday at The Plains, Va. Team America, held at the 250-acre Great Meadow Outdoor Center, is a

  • ASC's top civilian executive retires, new senior civilian leader begins work

    The executive director for Aeronautical Systems Center here retired from federal service Tuesday during a formal ceremony at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Robert May retired after a career spanning more than 37 years in both the active-duty Air

  • Wright-Patterson to host pistol match in October

    The Wright-Patterson Security Forces Combat Arms facility will host a second annual, all-Air Force pistol match Oct.15-19. Participants will compete on the 25-meter, indoor range firing the government-issue M-9 pistol. The best-scoring 10 percent of the competitors will receive elementary level

  • Terminally ill teen takes flight in aero club plane

    Jacob Dennison is an 18-year-old who longs to be a pilot. The son of retired Master Sgt. Steve Dennison and his wife, Tammy, Jacob was born at Moody AFB, Ga., and has been around aircraft his whole life. Of his persistence in wanting to fly, his mother said, "He never stopped talking about it. He's

  • AFRL-Funded Scientist Receives Max Born Award

    Dr. Alexander E. Kaplan, an AFRL Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded professor, received the Max Born Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA). Dr. Kaplan, a professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at Johns Hopkins University, received this honor for

  • Joint Science and Humanities Symposium

    Eighteen undergraduate tuition scholarships donated by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) through the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR), totaling $144,000 were awarded to 18 high school student winners of a