OCTOBER 18, 2022 - Across the Air Force nondestructive inspection flights are charged with ensuring aircraft structural integrity but what sets Holloman Air Force Base’s NDI flight apart from the others is the 14,600 flight hours that training pilots put in each year and with that comes a lot more inspections. The nondestructive inspection, or NDI, program was established in … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 18, 2022 - Air Force personnel took honors in four separate categories Oct. 3 in the annual Excellence in Advocacy competition sponsored by the non-partisan organization Women in Government Relations. Maj. Sam Sliney, Air Force judge advocate, was selected for the “Advocate on the Rise” award; a group of six connected to the Air Force’s Women’s Initiatives Team – … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 17, 2022 - When it comes to training pilots in combat it's easy to assume that flying an aircraft can simply be conducted in any airspace. But pilots need a training ground as well and Alaska provides one of the biggest in the world. The Joint Pacific Alaska Range Complex (JPARC) is the largest instrumented air, ground and electronic combat training range in the … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 17, 2022 - “Innovation is more than a buzzword … It is evolutionary or revolutionary changes to existing processes, capabilities, and mindsets," said Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. In line with this vision, the 1st Fighter Wing developed a team to transform its Airmen’s innovative ideas into reality. The team became known as the innovation cell and is … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 17, 2022 - The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, held an event Oct. 6 with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing for a ROAM Robotics team to demonstrate the latest Forge System, a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton that augments leg strength to reduce fatigue, increase endurance and offset weight. The event began with a … [Read more...]