By: Laura Dempsey

On a rainy Thursday in February, an interest in working with the government brought 55 people to Wright Brothers Institute’s downtown Dayton facility, all eager to learn the open secrets of the world of defense contracting. An additional 111 people took the remote route, taking adva...

By: Laura Dempsey

For three intensive days, personnel from Wright Brothers Institute, AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX) and Junior Force Warfighter Operations in RX (JFWORX) studied one of the Air Force’s most precarious problems: disposal of unexploded ordnance.

The current pro...

"What could we do to make a difference?" 

Dr. Vince Russo, Dr. Bart Barthelemy, and the other WBI founders gathered 20 years ago to ask this fundamental question. Before Wright Brothers Institute was formed in 2002, the Air Force Research Laboratory was only five years into their conso...

By: Laura Dempsey

A contingent from Wright Brothers Institute’s Rapid Innovation team joined AFRL and members of the 920th Rescue Wing from Patrick Space Force Base to evaluate a series of ongoing AFRL technologies. The evaluations took place during the United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM...