March 16, 2022 Virtual New Horizons set for April; senior leaders slated to present As New Horizons stays virtual this year, the event will still have Department of Defense and Air Force senior leaders, including all three of Hanscom’s program executive officers, sharing information and insights.
March 16, 2022 Eagle Eyes program encourages reporting suspicious activity With the Eagle Eyes anti-terrorism program personnel can, through a collective effort, aid in the prevention of terrorism through awareness, vigilant observation and reporting suspicious activities through the program’s communication channels.
March 16, 2022 AEDC announces FARM II contract companies Facilities Acquisitions for Restoration and Modernization II, or FARM II, is a five-year, $300 million firm-fixed-price contract that provides for mechanical; electrical; instrumentation, data and control; and/or design-build projects. These projects include infrastructure sustainment, restoration
March 15, 2022 AFRL/AFOSR to conduct rocket launch at NASA Wallops for hypersonics research WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – A launch of a two-stage suborbital sounding rocket for the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s BOLT II flight experiment is set to take place the evening of March 21 at the National Aeronautics and Space
March 15, 2022 Orange Flag 22-1 combines with Black Flag, coalition partners to meet joint test objectives Orange Flag serves as the nation’s premier proving ground for kill-web integration, advanced capability development, and data-driven experimentation. Since 2017, the all-domain large force test event has been carried out three times annually by the Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing at Edwards
March 15, 2022 Physics of Flying project brings 700+ to Wright-Patt booth at The Big Hoopla's STEM Challenge DAYTON, Ohio (AFRL) – Nearly 700 children and their families visited the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Educational Outreach booth at The Big Hoopla’s STEM Challenge March 13 at the Dayton Convention Center. The children, age’s kindergarten thru eighth grade, were given model airplane kits as well
March 15, 2022 Tyndall kicks off construction for $32.5 million project awarded to local small business A new $32.5 million flightline munitions storage area is on the way for Tyndall following a construction kick-off meeting recently.The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District awarded the contract Feb. 1 to EMR, Inc. of Niceville, Florida. The work includes eight buildings to directly support
March 15, 2022 Equipping Space Force operators through innovation U.S. Space Force organizations at Kirtland AFB led the 2nd Annual Delta Innovation Summit held in February.
March 15, 2022 Eglin test fighters fly together for first, last time Included were the F-15EX Eagle II, the F-15E Strike Eagle, the F-15C Eagle, the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
March 14, 2022 U.S. Air Force, BETA Technologies make history with first Airman flight of an electric aircraft through AFWERX Agility Prime Program WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – United States Air Force pilots Hank “Hog” Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby flew BETA Technologies’ electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, ALIA, as the first-ever Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with a military airworthiness March