• AFIT Establishes Hypersonics Research Center

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management has established a new center dedicated to hypersonic research. The Applied Research Center for Hypersonics aims to deliver cutting-edge interdisciplinary solutions to

  • AFIT professor earns Harold Brown award

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio - Air Force Institute of Technology faculty member Scott Nykl received the 2023 Harold Brown Award for his groundbreaking research on computer vision-based relative navigation for autonomous aerial refueling.He is the second AFIT faculty member to win this

  • Twin lieutenants graduate with master’s degrees from AFIT

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – First Lts. Hart and Holden Holt, identical twins from Princeton, North Carolina, are poised to make significant contributions to the Air Force following their recent graduation from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and

  • AFIT a ‘vital player’ in advancing digital workforce

    DAYTON, Ohio – Air Force Institute of Technology faculty participated in the recent Digital Dayton Roundtable at University of Dayton Research Institute’s Curran Place.The event focus was “Creating the Digital Materiel Management Workforce We Need: A Digital Transformation Office, Air Force Materiel

  • AFIT faculty member selected as Air Force Flemming Award nominee

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force Institute of Technology faculty member Adib Samin is the Air Force nominee for the 75th annual Arthur S. Flemming Award (Basic Science Category). The winner will be honored at the 2024 National Academy of Public Administration Fall Meeting.The

  • Longtime AFIT faculty member takes over as new dean for research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Institute of Technology welcomes Scott Graham as new dean leading the Office of Research and Outreach. “I have been a fan of AFIT since I learned about it as an undergraduate cadet,” he said. “It is an extraordinary place with innate ability to

  • AFIT commencement ceremony celebrates 206 graduates

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Institute of Technology’s Graduate School of Engineering and Management held a commencement ceremony March 21 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force to honor 206 new graduates.The Graduate School conferred 196 master’s degrees and four

  • Darkness in the daytime: Wright-Patt witnesses total eclipse

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio --  As the midafternoon sun disappeared from the blue sky Monday, and the darkness of night fell across Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, a cheer went up from those gathered behind the base’s club and banquet center.People had gathered to claim their spots hours