• Wright-Patt Energy Office advances resiliency, efficiency projects

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is working on a series of major energy projects designed to make the base more self-sufficient and less vulnerable to power outages. Focusing on the Energy Resilience and Conservation Investment Program, these projects are funded through a military construction

  • AFIT students inform Pentagon energy initiative as part of new course

    As part of a newly offered course at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), a small group of students determined energy-optimized flying conditions for Air Force fighter relocation missions, which are also known as coronets. Their work is helping to inform a Pentagon-led initiative that seeks

  • AFRL researchers ‘twist’ yarns for electrical energy, power

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory have ‘twisted’ upon a new way to harvest mechanical energy using ‘yarns’ that weigh less than a common housefly. Carbon nanotube-based “twistron” yarns, developed in collaboration with researchers from the AFRL’s