• Base hosts annual National Prayer Luncheon

    More than 450 patrons counted their blessings and came together in prayer Wednesday at the National Prayer Luncheon held at the club, an annual event at Wright-Patterson AFB. The 88th Air Base Wing Chaplain Capt. Dwayne A. Jones opened the ceremonies and then provided the crowd with words of hope

  • Shooters strive for excellence

     Airmen from as far away as Keesler AFB, Miss., descended upon Wright-Patterson AFB's Combat Arms Facility Monday to compete for Excellence-in-Competition medals. The Air Force-wide event was an elementary level one, which meant that participants would fire M-16A2 rifles at targets 25 meters from

  • AFRL seeks improved rehab therapy for traumatic brain injuries

    When Dr. Catherine Harrison pitched her novel traumatic brain injury (TBI) treatment methods to Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center officials in Washington D. C. last fall, she was prepared for a bureaucratic shuffle. Instead, the reaction from DVBIC medical director Dr. Warren Lux not only

  • Adaptive optics research produces images superior to Hubble

    Using basic research funds from the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, a team of astronomers and astrophysicists successfully demonstrated the capability to photograph faint stars in space, producing high-resolution digital photographs with 10 times the resolution

  • AFRL-funded scientist maneuvers light on silicon

    Through its Small Business Technology Transfer program, AFRL funded a team of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and Omega Optics ( Austin, Texas). The researchers invented and developed a compact silicon modulator. In effect, they developed a way to maneuver light on silicon--for

  • Scholarships awarded at 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

  • Air Force awards $8.6 million for DoD research at ASU

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded two Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Program grants to Arizona State University (ASU), totaling about $9 million, potentially over the next 5 years . ASU is one of eight universities to receive more

  • Air Force research leads to quantum dot technological breakthrough

    Using Air Force Office of Scientific Research basic research funding, through the Asian Office of Aerospace Research & Development (AOARD), a team of scientists from Thailand are the first in their field to successfully demonstrate solid experimental results on the physical utilization of quantum

  • Research office completes annual molecular dynamics program review

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here completed a thorough periodic review of its molecular dynamics research program during an annual conference held last week in Arlington. More than 90 researchers and scientists attended the 2006 Contractors' Meeting in Molecular Dynamics.

  • DoD’S newest supercomputer enables powerful innovation for users

    Staying on the cutting edge of technology isn't just a slogan at the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center here. With the addition of an SGI® Altix® 4700 computer, the ASC MSRC will house one of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's largest