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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      USecAF visits Wright-Patterson AFBPublished Jan. 9, 2023
                    
                    By Hannah Carranza
                    
                    
                    88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
            **WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS)  --**Under Secretary of the Air Force **Gina Ortiz Jones** got a look at various organizations and missions during a daylong tour of **Wright-Patterson Air Force Base**, Jan. 9.
Jones was also briefed on a variety of topics, ranging from cold-spray technology and strategic transport to sustainment innovations and **flying while pregnant**.
Her first stop was the **445th Airlift Wing**, where she met with aeromedical evacuation and staging Airmen, as well as crewmembers who **delivered an Afghan baby** on a **C-17 Globemaster III**. After that, the senior leader made stops at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and National Security Innovation Capital for classified briefings.Gina Ortiz Jones, undersecretary of the Air Force, meets with aeromedical evacuation and staging Airmen from the 445th Airlift Wing on Jan. 9 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones meets with aeromedical evacuation and staging Airmen from the 445th Airlift Wing, Jan. 9, 2023 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The 445th AW mission is to attain and maintain operational readiness; provide strategic transport of personnel and equipment; conduct medevac; and recruit and train toward these objectives. (U.S. Air Force photo by Hannah Carranza)
            
            
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    Capt. Kristina Wood, Rapid Sustainment Office program manager, shows Undersecretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones how materials are scanned Jan. 9 at The Greene in Beavercreek, Ohio.Capt. Kristina Wood, Rapid Sustainment Office program manager, shows Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones how materials are scanned, Jan. 9, 2023, at The Greene in Beavercreek, Ohio. RSO’s vision is to transform the acquisition approach and sustainment enterprise vital to the world’s most advanced Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Hannah Carranza)
            
            
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    Gina Ortiz Jones, undersecretary of the Air Force, has lunch Jan. 9 with Air Force Institute of Technology students at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz, right, has lunch with Air Force Institute of Technology students at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jan. 9, 2023. During her visit, Jones also toured the 445th Airlift Wing, National Air and Space Intelligence Center, National Security Innovation Capital, 711th Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory and Rapid Sustainment Office. (U.S. Air Force photo by Hannah Carranza)
            
            
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When Jones broke for lunch at the **Air Force Institute of Technology**, she found time to connect with a few AFIT students.
After lunch, she made her way to the **711th Human Performance Wing** and received briefings on flying while pregnant and a tour of the Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training Laboratory, which focuses on measuring and assessing cognitive and physical biosignatures in order to generate ways to develop training, supplementation and technology for performance enhancement.Gina Ortiz Jones, undersecretary of the Air Force, learns about the Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training Laboratory during her visit Jan. 9 to the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz learns about the Signature Tracking for Optimized Nutrition and Training Laboratory during her visit, Jan. 9, 2023, to the 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The STRONG lab is focused on measuring and assessing cognitive and physical biosignatures in order to generate ways to develop training, supplementation and technology for performance enhancement. (U.S. Air Force photo by Hannah Carranza)
            
            
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Jones went from the STRONG lab to the **Air Force Research Laboratory** and was given a demo on how strategic guidance is driving new technology imperatives. The under secretary then made her way to the **Rapid Sustainment Office** at The Greene in Beavercreek, where she was able to see firsthand a variety of new RSO innovations.
Jones ended her tour at a reception in the Wright-Patt Club, where she got a chance to connect with local community leaders from the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and Dayton Development Coalition.FS 



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