July 6, 2022 AFRL spacecraft Recurve launches on Virgin Orbit Space Force mission The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate spaceflight experiment Recurve was launched July 2, 2022, from the Mojave Air and Space Port on the Virgin Orbit space system in California.
July 5, 2022 AFNWC directorate key to managing modernization of weapons generation facilities Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center program managers and engineers, along with Air Force Global Strike Command representatives, recently visited the construction site at F. E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming, for the first-of-its-kind Air Force weapons generation facility.
July 5, 2022 New technologies drive Tyndall’s Installation of the Future rebuild The Air Force Civil Engineer Center’s Natural Disaster Recovery Division has been at the forefront of implementing new technologies to reshape the installation into a model of adaptability, efficiency and sustainability for the Department of the Air Force and Department of Defense.
July 2, 2022 Team seeks to improve coordination between geospatial intelligence systems, Air Force aircraft A key factor in the operational success of U.S. Air Force aircraft is the use of data from geospatial intelligence information systems – operated by the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA).The data provides key information related to location, navigation and the environment, that allow
July 1, 2022 Base team reduces muscular-skeletal and mental health issues One of the first multidisciplinary medical operational support teams in the Air Force is working to reduce muscular-skeletal and mental health issues at Hill Air Force base.The five-person team, consisting of an exercise physiologist, clinical psychologist, clinical social worker, physical therapist
June 30, 2022 Eglin test pilot returns to take command Brig. Gen. Jeff Geraghty became the new 96th Test Wing commander in a ceremony June 30.
June 30, 2022 Transmission for the Mission: How telemetry sites are used to relay data for the flight test mission With the installation of a new antenna at the 5790 Telemetry Site at Edwards Air Force Base, we give a closer look on how the 412th Range Squadron are using telemetry sites to relay data from aircraft and how it's being used for the mission.
June 30, 2022 Kessel Run welcomes new leadership A Kessel Run transition and assumption of leadership ceremony was held inside the organization's headquarters, June 27.
June 30, 2022 New commander takes charge at AFNWC Brig. Gen. John P. Newberry took command of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center in a ceremony here June 21. The Senate confirmed his promotion to major general on June 23.
June 29, 2022 DOD Official: No Changes to Women’s Essential Health Care The recent Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization does not prohibit the Defense Department from continuing to provide essential women’s health care services to service members, dependents, other beneficiaries and DOD civilian employees, the undersecretary of defense