• Wright-Patterson faces budget shortfall

    The imperative to recapitalize and modernize the Air Force is about to directly impact many Airmen, civilian employees and their families at Wright-Patterson AFB. That's what Col. Colleen Ryan, 88th Air Base Wing commander, told men and women assembled during commander's call sessions this week. Her

  • Engineers Deploy Robot for Support

    Two engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate deployed to Operation Enduring Freedom to provide robotic system support. Air Force officials requested in-country support for the Mine Area Clearance Equipment, a robotic mine clearing system based on the

  • AFRL researcher helps lead largest military health study

    More than 300,000 active duty and retired service men and women will receive a valuable document soon--not of financial worth but which could be a key to optimized performance and improved health and longevity for the nation's military personnel. The Millennium Cohort Study survey form will ask each

  • Budget constraints force closure of AFMC CAP office

    As the Air Force continues funding two of its priorities -- waging and winning the Global War on Terror as well as recapitalizing and modernizing its aging air and space force -- budget constraints affect decisions made by senior officials. In a move that will save Air Force Materiel Command

  • Air Force Marathon details announced

    The official USAF Marathon, an official Air Force 60th Anniversary event, will be held here Sept. 15, along with a Sports and Fitness Expo Sept. 13 and 14 at the Nutter Center. Runners from all over the world are expected to participate. Many in the Miami Valley have already commenced training by

  • Air Force plans to develop revolutionary engine

    Air Force Research Laboratory engineers have outlined a five-year timeline for a new, adaptive engine that will enable pilots to switch from high speed combat maneuvers to long-range persistence mode as effortlessly as a bird in flight. AFRL's Propulsion Directorate recently issued a Broad Agency

  • Damage detection essential to ensuring reusability of cryogenic tanks

    In-house researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate's Nondestructive Evaluation Branch, together with University of Dayton Research Institute and Purdue University's School of Mechanical Engineering, have made significant advances in the development of

  • Key Spouses, caring 'wingmen' watch out for families of deployed Airmen

    Newly promoted Staff Sgt. Augustina Mushale is a medical technician in the 88th Medical Operations Squadron's intensive care unit. She's also a volunteer in the Key Spouse program at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center and in that capacity makes monthly calls or visits members of the families of

  • Base employee looks back on kidney donation five years later

    Five years ago, Jolene Smith came across an organ donation Web site and, inspired by it, said she willing donated one of her kidneys. She shared some memories of that event in recognition of April's designation of "Donate Life Month." Today, a non-appropriated funds analyst in the 88th Comptroller