Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne presented the 2005 Harold Brown Award to John Caldwell during a Pentagon ceremony to honor Caldwell’s work in the biosciences and protection division of the human effectiveness directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory. His research focused o the effects of fatigue on pilots and sought ways to fight sleepiness in order to improve performance. The results of his work helped establish new fatigue countermeasures that are being used today.
Amid NATO’s continued push to ramp up air defenses in Eastern Europe, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall swung by seven allied countries to boost relations last week, including those on Russia’s and Ukraine’s doorstep.