Air Force Materiel Command consolidates research labs
Released: May 5, 1997
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS)
-- The Air Force Materiel Command streamlined its laboratory
structure April 8 by forming a single Air Force laboratory. The
new organization places the four existing labs and the Air Force
Office of Scientific Research under a single commander.
The name of the new organization is the Air Force Research
Laboratory. The laboratories that comprise the single lab
include the Armstrong Laboratory, headquartered at Brooks
Air Force Base, Texas; Phillips Laboratory, Kirtland AFB,
N.M.; Rome Laboratory, Rome, N.Y.; and Wright
Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB. The Air Force Office of
Scientific Research is located at Bolling AFB, D.C.
Maj. Gen. Richard R. Paul is the commander of the new lab.
He has been director of Science and Technology at AFMC
headquarters.
The Air Force is responding to a Congressionally mandated
initiative to consolidate defense laboratories and test centers
into as few as practical and possible. The single Air Force
Research Laboratory is a key element in the Air Force's
approach to the laboratory portion of the initiative.
Initial planning calls for research activities to remain at their
current geographic locations. The current headquarters AFMC
Science and Technology staff here will provide the core of the
new single laboratory staff, augmented by the staffs of the four
dispersed labs.
This reorganization is expected to result in some manpower
reductions, but it is too early to say how large those reductions
will be or where they will occur, General Paul said. There is
already a previously mandated 35-percent manpower
reduction in the laboratories which must be implemented by the
year 2001. (Courtesy of Aeronautical Systems Center News
Service)
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