Aug. 7, 2019 Record-setting first sortie for wing's newest F-35A Aircraft tail number 5261 left Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas, production facility a little after 8 a.m. Aug. 1, landed at Hill Air Force Base at 10 a.m., and by 3 p.m. had taken off on its first combat training mission.
Aug. 6, 2019 Air Force Marathon volunteers are vital to marathon’s success WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Marathon is seeking 2,600 volunteers to help with the race in September, and longtime volunteers, husband and wife duo Walter and Deniece Chin, can attest to how rewarding it is to play a role in this annual event. Looking for something that
Aug. 5, 2019 AFLCMC brings Air Battle Damage Repair Engineering to Wright-Patt WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Battle Damage Repair Engineering (ABDRE) is a crucial Air Force readiness function. It allows deployed engineers to make quick repairs to support assets in field units.“If a major war were to break out and the Air Force was experiencing a lot of aircraft
Aug. 5, 2019 Air Force Research Laboratory, Griffiss Institute, and Red Balloon Security to launch sophisticated cyber challenge at DEFCON 27 AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY, INFORMATION DIRECTORATE, Rome, N.Y. – The Air Force Research Laboratory is partnering with the Griffiss Institute and Red Balloon Security to put on a sophisticated cyber challenge at one of the world’s largest hacker conventions, DEFCON 27, in Las Vegas, Nevada, from
Aug. 5, 2019 NAS leadership spreading safety culture message Contained within much of the work that goes on at Arnold Air Force Base and across the Air Force Materiel Command are inherent risks.“If you think about it, we test rocket motors, jet engines, aircraft, satellite systems, and to do that we have to generate temperatures higher than the surface of the
Aug. 5, 2019 New AEDC Flight Systems director aims to support, grow his team The Arnold Engineering and Development Complex Combined Test Force at Arnold Air Force Base has a new face at the helm.Lt. Col. John McShane took on the director role June 28, and while new to the job and the area, he is full-speed ahead in conducting business as usual.“My goals are, first off, to
Aug. 5, 2019 Academy cadets’ invention to support battlefield Airmen awarded patents A team of Air Force Academy cadets took on this exact challenge while completing their mechanical and systems engineering degrees in 2016 and now their technology has been awarded three patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Aug. 4, 2019 Retired MWDs looking for families, homes, couches Thousands of MWDs are stationed around the world placing themselves in harm’s way detecting bombs, land mines and subduing threatening people; all in the name of keeping Americans safe.
Aug. 2, 2019 A resiliency message to Airmen from Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, Kaleth O. Wright CMSAF Wright Resiliency Message to Airmen
Aug. 2, 2019 Air Force Research Laboratory to Join IBM Q Network as First DOD-led IBM Q Hub ROME RESEARCH LAB, New York – The Air Force Research Laboratory has formally been established as an IBM Q Network Hub, the first-ever collaboration of its kind in the Department of Defense. This alliance will provide AFRL and its collaborators with access to commercial quantum systems to explore