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Nov. 5, 2018
Chapel Corps boosts morale on Thanksgiving Day

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- With the holiday season quickly approaching, the Wright-Patterson Chapel Corps is working hard to make sure those who have to work on Thanksgiving day still get to enjoy delicious homemade goodies.The Chapel Corps program “Operation Dessert Storm" provides
Nov. 5, 2018
Senior leaders applaud accomplishments of new enlisted promotees

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Col. Tom Sherman, 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander, and Chief Master Sgt. Stephen Arbona, 88th ABW command chief, co-hosted a ceremony at the Wright-Patt Club, Oct. 31, to acknowledge Team Wright-Patt’s newest enlisted promotees.The ceremony
Nov. 2, 2018
Dayton area Saturdays in November

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – With holidays like Veterans Day and Thanksgiving fast approaching, the Dayton area is responding with a bountiful harvest of activities. They even include many events designed to help ring in the Christmas season. Nov. 3The Dayton Diabetes Expo, 10 a.m. to 1
Nov. 1, 2018
Wright-Patt Exchange re-grand opening welcomes shoppers to $6.4 million renovation

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Exchange leaders and employees showed off the facility’s $6.4 million renovation to customers in a re-grand opening ceremony Oct. 25 that included ribbon and cake-cutting ceremonies, give-a-ways, special guests and words from
Nov. 1, 2018
AFRL Fellows and Early Career Award recipients honored at awards banquet

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force is stimulating new thinking about future ways of warfighting and the answers to some of the most complex challenges are being provided by scientists and engineers from across AFRL.However, after 17 years of global conflict against other than
Nov. 1, 2018
RATPAC Fractal packs in acquisition education

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. – Junior acquisition professionals from every Hanscom directorate attended a three-day training event to inspire creative solutions to acquisition challenges, Oct. 23 to 25 in the Hanscom Conference Center. The event, called a Revolutionary Acquisition Techniques,
Nov. 1, 2018
Air Force Agile Pilot Program meets mission needs in the wake of Hurricane Michael

MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. – The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s agile pilot program is consolidating four legacy contract writing systems into a single contract management system known as Contracting Information Technology, or CON-IT, and is
Oct. 31, 2018
Tactical training environment provides robust test capability for operators and technologists

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – On October 23, the National Center for Medical Readiness received delivery of a Conex “hotel,” which includes three 12,000-pound structures, to be incorporated with future training and testing events taking place at the tactical training facility.The National
Oct. 29, 2018
AFRL research leader honored posthumously by Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Katie Thorp, Ph.D. received the PRISM award posthumously from the Society of Women Engineers for her outstanding professional achievements, dedicated leadership and influential community service. A group including her husband, mother and several longtime
Oct. 26, 2018
Energy Action Month moving forward

The 88th Civil Engineer Group Energy Team is currently closing out an in-depth and highly successful energy awareness campaign during the month of October. The month highlighted federally mandated Energy Action through awareness campaigns and outreach activities. Energy Action Month (EAM) may have