Wright-Patterson
AFB is managed and maintained by Aeronautical Systems
Center, the Air Force organization responsible for
developing, acquiring, modernizing, and sus- taining
the world's best aerospace systems. Wright-Patterson
AFB is home to the foremost aeronautical and aerospace
research organi- zation in the Air Force, the Air
Force Research Laboratory.
Missions
range from acquisition and logistics management,
to research
and development,
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education, flight
operations, and many other defense related activities.
Wright-Patterson AFB includes the Air Force Institute of Technology,
which trains thou- sands of students each year, and the Air Force
Museum, which receives more than 1.2 million visitors a
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