• Lieutenant shares off-duty time with veterans in hospice

    First Lt. Austen Lefebvre spends his on-duty time in crew systems engineering in the Air Force Research Laboratory here. In his off-duty time, he's volunteered many hours on Saturday afternoons talking with and listening to patients in the hospice at the Dayton Veterans Affairs medical center. A

  • Girl Scout collects items for hospitalized military members

    Courtney Hromada started in the Girl Scouts of America as a "Daisy," a scout between 5 and 6 years old and one level below Brownie. Today the 17-year-old daughter of Donna and Rodney Hromada, who works at the 88th Mission Support Group, is a senior at Northmont High School in Englewood and is still

  • Deployed Airman sets sights on marathon

    Though he is deployed half a world away defending freedom at Sather Air Base, Baghdad International Airport, James Scott already has his sights set on this year's U.S. Air Force Marathon. Scott has already begun his quest by running in the Baghdad Indy 500 mini-marathon May 5. "The mini-marathon

  • ‘An All-American Evening’ raises $62,000 to support care facilities

    The Fisher/Nightingale Houses Inc. recently raised $62,000 during the fourth annual "An All-American Evening ... A Rockin' American Bandstand" at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the event support the day-to-day operations of the Fisher and

  • NASIC-AFRL-AFIT Consortium Benefits Partners, Students, and Community

    One of the many benefits of Wright-Patterson AFB is the opportunity for partnerships. Take, for example, the Wright-Patterson MASINT Development Consortium--which partners the Air Force Institute of Technology, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center.

  • Air Force officials evaluating KC-X proposals

    The Air Force source selection evaluation team is poring over industry proposals for the KC-X program, the replacement for the Air Force's aging KC-135 Stratotanker strategic refueling aircraft. The evaluation team, made up of a broad spectrum of acquisition and operational professionals, is

  • AFRL Physicist Captures American Physical Society 'Fellow' Title

     Dr. Timothy Bunning, a polymer physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Hardened Materials Branch, has received a "Fellow" appointment from the 45,000-member American Physical Society. He was recognized for contributions in the field of advanced

  • AFRL Supports F-35 JSF With Acoustic and Impact Testing

    AFRL signed a commercial test agreement with Northrop Grumman to conduct acoustic fatigue and impact testing of a thin-gage composite material with a SynCore™ center structure. This material system is intended for use on the interior walls of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's (JSF) inlet duct.

  • Active Aeroelastic Wing Flight Research Vehicle Receives X-53 Designation

    AFRL researchers received word regarding the Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) flight demonstrator's assignment to mission design series number X-53. The designation makes the vehicle AFRL's first successfully initiated X plane since the X-24 lifting body concept, which was later employed on the space