• ‘Speed mentoring’ matches mentors, protégés

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Nervous laughter and quiet conversation ensued as participants entered a room set with cloth-covered tables, bowls of mints and punch. Light music played in the background, setting the scene for what looked to be another round of speed dating in the Dayton

  • Flexible batteries: evolving energy for the ‘new’ reality

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- It’s a $7 million research industry today, expected to be worth $400 million dollars by 2025. For researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, the “energy” spent in this research area is worth much more. By using

  • The Veterans' Voice Project seeks veterans to tell their story

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Wright State University’s Veterans’ Voice Project is on a mission to build bridges between veterans by telling their story and preserving it for generations to come.  The Veteran’s Voice Project staff, comprised of WSU military veteran students, are

  • Break the cycle of bullying

    Bullying is not just a part of life that stops in the schoolyard; it can have consequences that stretch into adulthood and impact people for the rest of their lives.   According to the National Center for Education, one in four children will experience bullying in their lives, and it comes in many

  • New office looks to shape future force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force of the future is taking greater focus as the new Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office is actively pursuing its mission and the experimentation campaigns that it has been chartered to execute. The office will be

  • Four-time Olympian speaks at AF Marathon events

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Meb Keflezighi, a four-time Olympian and winner of the 2014 Boston Marathon, participated in 2016 Air Force Marathon activities, speaking at the Breakfast of Champions, Expo, pasta dinner and running in the 10K. During his remarks at the Breakfast of

  • AFRL celebrates patents, seeks to further bolster numbers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- It would be safe to assume that a pioneering research and development organization such as the Air Force Research Laboratory possesses its fair share of patented intellectual property.  The fact is that 218 patents have been filed by AFRL since 2011, with 49

  • McMurry to lead AFLCMC

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force officials announced that Maj. Gen. Robert McMurry Jr. has been nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and will become the commander of the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.  Lt. Gen. John

  • 711 HPW researches Human-Machine Trust

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- A research team in the 711th Human Performance Wing’s Airman Systems Directorate here focuses on how humans make reliance decisions with technology - or in other words, how humans develop, maintain and lose trust. At first glance, this may seem like a small

  • Volunteers needed for tax assistance -- a way of giving back

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Additional volunteers are needed to provide tax assistance during the tax-filing season. “This is an excellent way to support our Air Force family,” said retired Col. Rick Shapiro of the Retiree Activities Office. “Hardly anybody does their own taxes anymore.