• Remember those lost in Run for the Fallen

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Wright-Patterson community is encouraged to remember those lost in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by participating in the fourth annual Run for the Fallen, scheduled for September 11, 2017 beginning at 8 a.m. at the intersection of Loop and Spaatz roads on

  • Security trainers sharpen defenders’ responsive edge

    DAYTON, Ohio –  Active shooter incidents in the United States saw the highest two-year averages in the past 16 years between 2014 and 2015, according to a 2016 report by the FBI.  Fatal shootings at Fort Hood, Fort Bragg, Washington Navy Yard and installations in Tennessee highlight that military

  • 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

  • The story our network tells

    By taking the pulse of the Air Force network, Acquisition personnel here hope to improve security, reduce maintenance costs and mine data produced by millions of daily operations.

  • 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

  • Celebrate the Air Force's 70th Birthday

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of the community are invited to join Team Wright-Patt at the National Museum of the United States Air Force Sept. 8 to celebrate the Air Force’s 70th Birthday. The event will be held in the museum’s Fourth Hangar from 6:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. and will

  • AFIT offers unique nuclear engineering program

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –  With talk of nuclear weapons returning to Americans’ everyday conversations, it might be excusable for the average person to think that the technology somehow had left the mainstream; this couldn’t be further from the truth.For educators at the Air Force

  • Program office receives model Global Hawk

    Col. Darien Hammett, director of the Global Hawk System Program Office, accepts a 1/10th scale model of a Global Hawk Block 40 aircraft from Lauren Stevens, Global Hawk program manager and vice president, Northrop Grumman.The Global Hawk System Program Office, is responsible for the total life cycle

  • Dedicated volunteer receives Air Force-level award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dede Richardson, a military spouse, received the 2017 Air Force Fisher House Volunteer of the Year Award during a ceremony Aug. 7, at the Fisher House II, one of two, side-by-side compassionate comfort care facilities at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.“She