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Area High School Students Spend Summer Studying STEM with WBI

Wright Brothers Institute is cultivating some scientists and engineers this summer, hosting 28 area high-school students for an eight-week paid internship program laser-focused on science, technology, engineering and math, better known as STEM.

The students, representing 13 area high schools, applied...
20.06.23 07:00 PM - Comment(s)
WBI Workshop Examines Shortcomings of Remote Airfield Preparation, Identifies Improvements

By: Laura Dempsey


The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation (CRI) engaged Wright Brothers Institute to take charge of a two-day Aerial Airfield Survey Tool Workshop in mid-October. The workshop was designed to respond to the Contingency Response Wing’s (CRWs) need to assess the ...

26.01.23 05:25 PM - Comment(s)
Sprint methodology looks to transform software acquisition at 711th Human Performance Wing
The Air Force Research Lab’s 711th Human Performance Wing was dissatisfied with its software acquisition process, and felt it was time for a change. The scientists and engineers were hindered by the time and paperwork required to update software, and believed they should establish a business process...
20.10.22 07:04 PM - Comment(s)
WBI Key in Connecting Wastewater Specialist to Challenge Opportunity
By: Laura Dempsey

Conventional wisdom says success is often found in who you know. In the case of Strongbox Solutions, a specialist in environmentally conscious waste-water disposal, and Confluence, a water technology innovation cluster in the Ohio River Valley region, it is who you know, but also wh...
27.06.22 07:19 PM - Comment(s)
WBI's Open Innovation Challenge Provides Revamped Training Model for B-21 Crews

In late summer 2020, Wright Brothers Institute was put to work on an issue identified by the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). Training practices for B-21 bomber pilot and maintainer crews had not kept up with technology, creating a bottleneck in keeping the fleet properly manned and trained....

23.02.22 08:27 PM - Comment(s)

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