711th Human Performance Wing

711th Human Performance Wing
ActiveMarch 2008 — present
CountryUnited States
BranchAir Force
TypeHuman
Size2000
Part ofAir Force Materiel Command
Garrison/HQWright-Patterson AFB
Commanders
Current
commander
Colonel Theresa Goodman

The 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW) is a wing of the United States Air Force based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.

Air Force officials redesignated the inactive Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, or AAMRL, as the 711th HPW and activated it on March 26, 2008, as one of 10 entities moving under the control of the Air Force Research Laboratory.[1] The AF Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (AAMRL) was constituted on 20 Aug 1979, and activated 8 Sept 1979. The AAMRL was the predecessor organization of the RHC & RHP Divisions as they existed in 2008. The Laboratory was redesignated the Harry G. Armstrong Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory 1 Jan 1985, and inactivated on 13 December 1990.[2]

  1. ^ http://www.usafunithistory.com/PDF/0700/711%20HUMAN%20PERFORMANCE%20WG.pdf, accessed January 2021.
  2. ^ "711th Human Performance Wing and USAF School of Aerospace Medicine: A Center of Excellence in Aerospace Medicine, 24 April 2008, presentation accessed via health.mil, January 2021.