• MUPI Conference Reception Features Keynote on AFRL Opportunities (Diversity)

    Mr. Ed Lee, who manages Air Force Research Laboratory's Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program, was recently the featured speaker at the opening reception for the 2010 Member University Professional Institute Conference: "HBCUs and Beyond, Cultivating Leaders for

  • Optical Societies Honor AFRL Engineer

    Dr. James G. Grote, a principal electronics research engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, earned Fellow status both from the Optical Society of America and from the European Optical Society, where he also now holds the distinction as being the first

  • Aerospace Castings Inspection Enters the Digital Age

    In a move heralding sizable savings of both money and time for the aerospace castings industry--and ultimately, the military--a government/industry collaboration is introducing digital radiography as a viable method for inspecting strategic and complex aerospace castings in accordance with DoD

  • Advanced Composites Office "HAMs" It Up

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Air Force Advanced Composites Office (ACO), located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, recently transitioned to Ogden Air Logistics Center a hot air module  addressing problematic elevated-temperature bonded repairs, which are especially difficult for depot crews working

  • SBIR Technologies Promise Power and Performance for

    Technologies newly demonstrated by Air Force Research Laboratory industry partner PC Krause and Associates, Inc., could significantly impact the electrical power systems of the Joint Strike Fighter and future More Electric Aircraft . The milestone success occurred during a recent Integrated Vehicle

  • Successful Combined-Cycle Integrated Inlet Testing

    Air Force Research Laboratory propulsion engineers completed a series of successful experiments demonstrating industry partner Aerojet's combined-cycle integrated inlet, an enabling technology for the integrated turbine-based combined-cycle engines that will ultimately advance hypersonic cruise and

  • Axing the Competition

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Battle-Axe Ordnance program, which works to enhance the lethality of multimode ordnance packages, completed a successful test series for two integrated warheads. Supporting the lab's premiere micro munitions, the Battle-Axe warhead will increase the capacity of

  • Laser Diodes Demonstrated as IR Beacon

    Ever attuned to the warfighter need for enhanced battlefield awareness and lowered risk of friendly fire and fratricide, Air Force Research Laboratory scientists demonstrated the viable use of infrared laser diodes as an Identification Friend or Foe and Positive Identification--IFFPID--beacon for

  • Materials and Manufacturing Know-How Bests Failed Breakers

    Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory's expertise in evaluating and resolving a potentially costly problem related to KC-135 circuit breaker failure, a novel routine for checking--and, as necessary, replacing--these critical components is now in place. Affecting nearly 400 aircraft, the