WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 12 -- Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 11, 2026: * * * AFIT Alumnus, Deputy to the Commanding General, Retires after 13 Years of Senior Executive Service By Jacob Wologo After nearly five decades in the space and missile defense business, Richard P. De Fatta (M.S. Engineering Physics, 1986), deputy to the commanding general of U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, retired from civil service on Feb. 27. For four yea  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 12 -- Air Force Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * AFIT Applying AI to Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Challenge Workshop The Air Force Institute of Technology's Nuclear Expertise for Advancing Technologies (NEAT) Center and AFIT's Artificial Intelligence Technology Research and Education Consortium (AI TREC) co-hosted the inaugural two-day Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Challenge Workshop (A3ICWMDCW) in August of 2  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, March 11 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following commentary by Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Wieser and Col. Chadwick Steipp: * * * Commentary: Acquiring the Warrior Ethos * Acquirers are warriors. They think, plan, and act on Department of War equities every single day. United States ships, aircraft, and vehicles, from the Liberty ships of World War II, to the F-117s of Desert Storm, to the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicl  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: * * * TEC hosts inaugural master fitness leader course * MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. (AFNS) - The I.G. Brown Training and Education Center hosted the U. S. Air Force's inaugural Master Fitness Leader course Feb. 17-27, at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, bringing together Total Force Airmen and civilians for the first offering of the new training program. The two-week summit targeted prospective mast  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 12 (TNSjou) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Fantastic fungi found with ability to freeze water The foundational research discovers a new class of fungal ice nucleating proteins with bacterial ancestry. By Felicia Spencer Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia Tech's Xiaofeng Wang and Boris A. Vinatzer discovered the identity of fungal proteins that can catalyz  more