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  • Air Force introduces next generation cruise missile

    Since the late 1970s the Department of Defense has tried and failed numerous times to give the warfighter an affordable standoff cruise missile capable of taking out the enemy's air defenses early on in a conflict. Fast forward to 2006 and that warfighter need has finally been met by the Air Force's next generation cruise missile -- the Joint

  • Weather info delivered to warfighter faster with integration

    Net-centric weather integration is one of the many important initiatives being tested during the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. This integration, sponsored by the Air Force Weather Agency, demonstrates the capability to provide critical, time-sensitive weather information to the Combined Air and Space

  • Electronic initiative gets critical information to commanders

    An initiative designed to electronically transmit intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance information to commanders is currently being tested here at Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006. With non-traditional ISR services, information will flow directly from aircraft to the Air and Space Operations Center and forward-deployed locations,
  • Staff Sgt. Cassandra Ali replaces a shredder bag at the industrial shredder at a deployed location in Southwest Asia. Sergeant Ali is the 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron base records manager. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Anthony Nelson Jr.)

    OPSEC tool pulverizes paper

    She’s called the “shredder queen.” Staff Sgt. Cassandra Ali, 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron base records manager, keeps track of Airmen who sign up to shred paper. In the last two weeks, she’s moved 57 20-pound bags of pulverized paper from the base’s newest operational security tool, a multipurpose high-security, high-volume

  • National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex set to reopen

    The Arnold Engineering Development Center and the Air Force recently signed a lease to reopen the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex located on NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.Under the terms of a 25-year lease, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will retain ownership of the facility while AEDC operates the

  • Air Force accepts delivery of its first combat configured CV-22 Osprey

    Aeronautical Systems Center's commander, Lt. Gen. John L. “Jack” Hudson, along with other Department of Defense leaders, was on hand to accept the keys from Bell Boeing for the first combat configured CV-22 Osprey during a ceremony March 1 at the Bell manufacturing facility in Amarillo, Texas. "It's an honor to be here for this historic milestone
  • Master Sgt. Brian Ross (right) and Tech. Sgt. John Fenwick install a coupling onto a main lead between an automatic switch and a generator at a deployed location in Southwest Asia. The Airmen are with the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron electrical shop. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Andrew Leonhard)

    Watts up: Shop hardwired to deployed base

    Flip a switch and a light goes on. Plug in an electric shaver and it recharges. Push start on a microwave and the food becomes piping hot. These are all easy everyday activities most people go through. But for one shop within the 380th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron, it’s an everyday job to make sure people within the wing can do those

  • Air Force committed to energy-efficient strategies

    The Air Force continues its pledge to be a leader in energy stewardship. For the last six months, the Air Force has been working on a strategy to have energy as a consideration in nearly all of its activities, from operations to acquisition. The Air Force is increasing efforts to reduce the demand for energy using good building design, advanced

  • GPS helps warfighters track ‘bad guys’

    When U.S. forces get to Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re finding dry, featureless terrain with no real landmarks or points of reference to use when they travel across these wide-open and often dangerous landscapes. In the past, maps and a compass were the decisive tools used by servicemembers to track down the enemy and find their exact location in

  • Big leap forward in detecting ground targets from cosmos

    When launched in 2010, a football-field-in-length demonstrator radar antenna, weighing more than 5 tons, will serve as the forerunner for the future of America's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in space. Administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here, the innovative space-based radar antenna

  • Protein study a real eye opener

    Warfighters will never have the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but a specialized whey protein supplement under study here could enhance mental and physical performance. A double-blind Air Force Research Laboratory study was launched Feb. 3 as part of an operational readiness initiative. It is being conducted in collaboration with
  • LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. (AFPN) -- Earl Harris adjusts the wing fold of the aerial regional-scale environmental survey of Mars airplane in the NASA 12-foot low-speed tunnel here. The tunnel will test the airplane for stability in various wind conditions and validate its aerodynamics. Mr. Harris is a mechanical engineering technician with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (U.S Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Eric T. Sheler)

    Into space

  • KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFPN) -- A laser-based sensing system measures mirror position to ensure the deployable optical telescope's proper functioning in space. It took scientists years to develop this system. The telescope can be launched on an existing unmanned launch vehicle. (U.S. Air Force photo)

    AFRL breakthrough furthers space optics

    Positioning three delicate, circular mirrors to one one-thousandth of the width of a human hair challenged scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s space vehicles directorate here. But, not anymore. For five years they studied the deployable optical telescope, or DOT. The telescope represents the future of foldable, large aperture optics.
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