• AFRL Sensors Scientist Earns Air Force Science and Engineering Award

    Dr. Boris Tomasic, of the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate, earned the 2009 Air Force Science and Engineering Award for Exploratory or Advanced Technology Development. The award recognizes noteworthy achievements in applied research or advanced technology development, with emphasis

  • Lynx Aerodynamic Design Tested in AFRL Wind Tunnel

    Working under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, XCOR Aerospace, Inc., performed subsonic wind tunnel tests using an Air Force Research Laboratory facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. XCOR completed the test series to validate the aerodynamic design of its all-metal

  • New Simulation Capability Aids Cooperative UAV Research

    Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory design and development expertise, an important new collaborative simulation capability--one facilitating coopera-tive unmanned air vehicle research--has emerged. The pursuit of a shared simulation capability for independent teams generated the AVTAS (Aerospace

  • Geodesic Dome Phased-Array Antenna Demonstrates TT&C Capacity

    An Advanced Technology Demonstration pursuing sophisticated communications support for overtaxed Air Force Satellite Control Network assets took a giant step forward, proving an advanced antenna's capacity to establish multiple, simultaneous, dual-band (L-band and S-band) transmit and receive

  • Ultra-High-Purity Synthesis Improves Nanotube Materials

    Scientists and engineers from Air Force Research Laboratory, Fisk University and Riehl Engineering, Ltd., have achieved a significant advancement in the field of carbon nanotechnology. Using an innovative process for achieving ultra-high-purity synthesis, the combined research and development effort

  • T-REX Hits New Heights in Human Performance Training Research

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Warfighter Readiness Research Division, or RHA, hosted a select group of highly experienced joint warfighters for T-REX 09-1, an important RHA Air and Space Operations Center Training Research Exercise geared towards investigating the immersive learning, information

  • President nominates new AFMC vice commander

    The President has nominated Maj. Gen. Janet C. Wolfenbarger, director of the Intelligence and Requirements Directorate at Air Force Materiel Command, for confirmation by the Senate to the rank of lieutenant general with assignment to the position of AFMC vice commander.As vice commander of AFMC, she

  • Advanced Algorithms to Enhance Mobile Autonomous Robots

    Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Imagination Engines, Inc., a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop advanced algorithms for mobile autonomous robots. The Air Force needs creative terrain-sensing and multivalued behavior-fusion algorithms for these robots due to the

  • Collaboration Addresses AFSOC Need for Functional Spotting Charge

    Air Force Special Operations Command turned to Air Force Research Laboratory for assistance in finding a more affordable and efficient training round with an observable impact assessment capability. Faced with a dwindling ammunition inventory but reluctant to consume expensive high explosive