• Author addresses breastfeeding in the military

    Information about breastfeeding while on active duty was presented to active duty mothers, families and medical professionals by author Robyn Roche-Paull March 10 at the Wright-Patterson Medical Center."Support for active duty mothers who are breastfeeding is a quality of life issue that impacts

  • AFMC strategic plan to help carry Air Force to Third Offset

    Agility and innovation are cornerstones of a new Air Force Materiel Command strategic plan that will deliver war-winning capabilities. Those capabilities will propel the Air Force as a key element of the future national defense strategy known as the Third Offset.The first "offset" came in the 1950s

  • Active duty Airman advocates for inclusive playground, community

    The Properties of Wright Field will soon have a new playground--an inclusive playground--thanks to the advocacy efforts of Tech. Sgt. Amanda Golembiewski, a Public Health apprentice with the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine.Golembiewski, founder of the non-profit organization

  • Air Force IT Conference returns … with addition of ‘cyberpower’

    The Air Force Information Technology Conference held annually in Montgomery, Alabama, but cancelled in 2012 and following years due to budget constraints is returning to the capital city in 2016 as the rebranded Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower Conference.The AFITC Conference will be

  • Spirit of volunteerism shines in AFRL engineer

    Cultivating an early interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics--or STEM disciplines--is an important part in developing the next generation of scientists and engineers.  Dr. Augustine Urbas of the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has recently been honored as

  • 88th Security Forces Armory keeps Defenders armed and ready

    Security forces are the first line of defense when it comes to protecting the base. However, a defender would have trouble defending it without their weapons. That's the mission of the 88th Security Forces Squadron armory.The armory is responsible for storing, arming and disarming, and the

  • Deputy SecDef invites students to experience the "cool stuff" that DOD does

    Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work and Stephen Welby, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base March 3 to encourage students from the Dayton City School District to consider a government career in science, saying it was a way to make a

  • Read Across America Day declared by White House

    Is Horton just an fictional elephant in a children's book?Teachers, parents, children and others involved in education are fully aware that the month of March is for readers.  It's celebrated in classrooms across the United States and for years, March has been called Read Across America Month. While

  • AFRL scientist receives award from prestigious research society

    Dr. Timothy White of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory was recently named a recipient of the prestigious Outstanding Young Investigator Award of the Materials Research Society. This award recognizes exceptional, interdisciplinary scientific work in the field