July 25, 2012 AFRL scientist recognized by White House The White House announced July 23, 2012, an Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate scientist has received a Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. Each year, the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President presents
July 24, 2012 Feature: One step at a time led Edwards chaplain to AFMC marathon team Sept. 15, Team Edwards will send four Airmen to run the Air Force Marathon in Dayton, Ohio. The four Airmen make up half of Air Force Materiel Command's team and will give it their all to make sure the trophy stays with the command after last year's success.One of those runners is Capt. Joshua
July 23, 2012 Commentary: My job is prosecuting sexual assault Here's a simple truth...sexual offenders reject our core values of integrity, service and excellence, in favor of following their own base, undisciplined, criminal desires. Most sexual assaults committed by Airmen are "blue on blue," or Airmen victimizing other Airmen. So in addition to rejecting
July 20, 2012 AFRL experiment will create artificial ionosphere On successive days in September, a pair of two-stage sounding rockets will lift off from the U.S. Army's Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, with each launch vehicle carrying a canister of samarium powder to its appointed trajectory
July 20, 2012 Teamwork leads to record-breaking achievement A B-1B Lancer just made history. The aircraft swept through programmed depot maintenance in record-breaking time -- just 129 flow days. It was produced one day sooner than the unit's goal and 24 days sooner than the fiscal 2012 goal.Officials credit the achievement to teamwork, years of continuous
July 20, 2012 Squadron overhauls record number of KC-135 booms Repairs of KC-135 aerial refueling booms at Tinker AFB reached a record level last month.The 18 booms overhauled in June were the most ever repaired in one month since Tinker began working on KC-135 booms in 1993, according to Ginger Keisling, deputy director of the 551st Commodities Maintenance
July 13, 2012 Vietnam vets meet with AFMC commander Gen. Janet Wolfenbarger, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, meets with a group of local Vietnam War veterans on July 9, 2012. David Fuchs (from left), Steve Ratcliffe, Wolfenbarger, Richard Barazzotto and Tom Istvan pose for a photo during the small gathering in the general's office. The
July 13, 2012 One of AFIT's own designs top word game app Wouldn't it be cool to design your own app? And wouldn't it be cool if the app was among the top 50 to be downloaded? Maj. (Dr.) Kennard Laviers, an assistant professor of computer science in the department of electrical and computer engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, recently
July 9, 2012 Becoming an MTI? There's an app for that There's a smart phone application for just about everything these days, including joining the ranks of the Air Force's military training instructor corps. The app, simply called "Air Force MTI," is free and available for Apple, Android and Blackberry devices."It takes a special person to be an MTI,"