WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, July 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin, 53rd Wing A 53rd Wing F-15E Strike Eagle executed the first-ever guided launch of the AIM-120D3 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile here June 30, 2022 successfully engaging a QF-16 full-scale aerial target. The 28th Test and Evaluation Squadron and 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron's test effort was to execute a long-range shot that physically stress  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, July 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center issued the following news: By Jack Waid, Air Force Materiel Command History Office * * * "Air Force Materiel Command was established on 1 July 1992, and is both an old and new command, which is why it is unique and why its story is interesting. It is an old command --certainly one of the oldest in the Air Force -- because its roots go back to the earliest days of U.S. military aviation and because its heritage bel  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, July 21 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: Leveraging research and development work done under a Phase II SBIR contract, the Simulators Division B-1 Training Systems team executed a contract modification to update the Cockpit Procedures Trainers with a new device that meets expanded capacities for B-1 aircrew training. The Virtual Reality Aircrew Training Device (VRATD) capability is delivered within a small, half-rack comm  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. David Scott, D-Georgia, issued the following news release on July 20, 2022: Congressman David Scott (GA-13), chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, and Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) today applauded the passage of their amendment ensuring the Department of Veterans' Affairs continues to provide safe, experienced, and high-quality anesthesia care for our Nation's veterans. This amendment will pave the way for Congressman David Scott's previously introduced Pro  more

WASHINGTON, July 21 -- Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, issued the following news release: Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) announced that several of his 2023 community project funding priorities, which he secured, were approved by the U.S. House 220 to 207. "From $29 million for a new School Age Center at Wright-Patterson to millions of dollars in infrastructure improvements across the Miami Valley Region, the federal funds I secured will support community projects that foster greater economic dev  more