OCTOBER 25, 2021 - What if you could access fuel from anywhere on the planet, at any time, no tanker required? The Air Force thinks it’s possible with ground-breaking carbon transformation technology. Separate from carbon capture and storage or carbon utilization, carbon transformation can turn carbon dioxide from the air into nearly any chemical, material, or fuel, … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 25, 2021 - Arizona emergency responders recently were able to quickly locate a small plane crash site in northern Arizona, thanks to the work of Civil Air Patrol’s volunteer National Radar Analysis Team. The plane, a Piper PA-28R-200 Arrow II, single-engine aircraft departed from San Martin, California with two people aboard, crashed on approach to Page Municipal … [Read more...]

Nellis Solar Array 2 collects energy at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Oct. 19, 2021. There are two solar arrays on Nellis AFB. NSA 2 is located on 102 acres and converts solar power into 18.8 megawatts of electricity annually, avoiding 17,700 tons of carbon dioxide. (U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Hasenauer) OCTOBER 25, 2021 - According to Jeffery Blazi, Nellis Air Force … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 21, 2021 - Nov. 2 is the deadline for active-component Airmen and Guardians to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, followed by Dec. 2 for Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel. Any active-component Airman or Guardian who has refused to obtain a qualifying vaccine by Nov. 2 and has not received, or, is not in the process of seeking, a medical exemption … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 21, 2021 - The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with United Kingdom’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), have demonstrated for the first time the ability for the U.S. and the U.K. to jointly develop, select, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms in support of the armed forces of each of the two nations. This … [Read more...]