• Picnic celebrates contributions of interns at Wright-Patt

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Hundreds of interns working across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base were honored Aug. 10 at an inaugural picnic held at Bass Lake.The work of about 600 interns assigned to Air Force Materiel Command, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and the Air Force

  • Light Attack Experiment: A new way of doing business for the Air Force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – On March 8, 2017, Gen. David L. Goldfein, Air Force chief of staff, issued a memorandum stating that the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base would lead a campaign directed at the Air Force’s

  • First annual SMART Scholar’s symposium held at AFIT

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – The Department of Defense’s Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation Scholarship for Service program, held its first SMART Scholar’s “First Flight” Symposium at the Air Force Institute of Technology July 18-19.  Established by DOD, the SMART Scholarship

  • New AFRL pilot program to recruit and retain future engineers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – To diversify the workforce and replace employees nearing retirement in the Air Force, a new pilot program was developed to recruit young talent in the local area.   Leadership, Experience, Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth, LEGACY, is a new program

  • AFCEC to host Air Force Encroachment Management Symposium

    The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Regional Development Planning Branch hosts the annual Air Force Encroachment Management, or AFEM, training event Aug. 1-3, at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.    The symposium provides encroachment management stakeholders with the knowledge and skills necessary to

  • Advanced navigation system developed through Air Force agreement

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, the Air Force Institute of Technology and the Locata Corporation delivered a highly accurate navigation system that performs in wide-area GPS jamming environments caused by electronic warfare.The 746th

  • Acquisition as wargame

    The Pentagon’s Air Force acquisition office challenged teams to protect nearly one million users from dangerous malware during a pilot wargame held June 26-30 at the Hanscom Conference Center here.The wargame scenario was ripped from the headlines and one of the three participating teams were