Wright-Patterson Air Force Base News

Construction is starting on a new $2.5 million facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that will allow the military to create its own fuel for research aimed at producing alternatives for powering military aircraft.

Officials at Wright Patterson Air Force Base broke ground Monday afternoon for the Assured Aerospace Fuels Research Facility.

Integrated Solutions and Services Unlimited Inc., a provider of records management and other administrative support services to federal agencies and business, has relocated its headquarters to Dayton from suburban Cincinnati, the company's owner said this week.

The killing of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, by an Army psychiatrist is bound to prompt new precautions to be taken, a former clinical psychologist at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Friday, Nov.

Leave the kids with a baby sitter and come out to the Clemens Center Comedy Club at 8 p.m. Monday to celebrate the comedy club's first show of the season with a trio of entertaining comics.

Officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base are alerting the public that any smoke seen in the vicinity of the base is completely and totally intentional.

Tech. Sgt. Sherri St. John, a reservist with the 315th Maintenance Squadron at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., saws a piece of stock metal during her two-week stay at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where she worked in the restoration hangar at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in nearby Dayton.

The US Air Force has been a leader in collaborative, open innovation since the onset of air-based weaponry.

A member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs has asked the Defense Department to explain why APM LLC is still receiving federal stimulus funds as an Air Force contractor when APM and other companies have been suspended for alleged fraud in obtaining government contracts under a set-aside program for ...

An E-4B National Airborne Operations Center plane, with the call signal "Venus 77," is launched from Andrews Air Force Base, near Washington, in response to the Pentagon attack, and is initially directed toward Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.

Gen. Richard Y. Newton III, deputy chief of staff for Manpower and Personnel, effective immediately, individual items making up the PTU and improved PTU are considered uniform items.

Air Force officials recently updated guidance for wear of the physical training uniform and the improved PTU.

Air Force Engine Design Could Help Planes Fly Father on Less Gas: Turbine Engine Design Could Help Aircraft Fly an Average of 30 Percent Farther on a Tank of Fuel.

The Department of Defense awarded nearly $30 million in stimulus contracts to six companies while they were under federal criminal investigation on suspicion of defrauding the government.

Air Force Research Laboratory officials said a long-term project to develop a new turbine engine that would reduce fuel consumption by 25 percent also could allow planes to fly longer distances without refueling, easing demand on the Air Force tanker fleet used to refuel aircraft aloft.

Add this to the complexities of cyber warfare: It may someday be difficult for the United States to attack an enemy in cyberspace without damaging a network that the U.S. military itself needs for its own electronic communications.

An Air Force special agent who was killed while serving in Iraq in 2007 will be honored on Friday, Oct.

The University of Dayton Research Institute has hired a scientist to support the school's research effort with the Air Force to design affordable and environmentally friendly jet fuel from coal and biomass material.

Battelle, the research and development organization, is working with the Air Force under three contracts to support preparedness at its medical centers, emergency response preparation and studies intended to help protect Air Force and Defense Department personnel against chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear hazards.

Northrop B-2 Spirit DAYTON, Ohio "Necessity is the mother of all invention." It's a common theme throughout history, and nowhere is that more apparent than with the Air Force; as warfare evolved over the decades, so too did the aircraft used in the many battles.