New AFRL Executive Director Speaks

The chapter welcomed Dayton-raised Ricky Peters, the new executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, as its April luncheon speaker. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Peters grew up in the Dayton area and was educated at Dayton-area universities. He discussed the challenges and areas of growth facing the AFRL with regard to the reorganization of the Air Force into five major centers, and two of them located at Wright-Patterson. Peters is the principal assistant to the commander and the senior civilian executive responsible for managing the Air Force's $2.5 billion science and technology program, additional customer-funded research and development of $2.5 billion and a workforce of approximately 10,400 people in the laboratory's component technology directorates and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.