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  • Cyber Defense Simulation Trainer Demonstration

    Researchers demonstrated the AFRL-developed Cyber Defense Simulation Trainer (CYDEST) to the Director of Human Resources and Training (Assistant Secretary of Defense/National Information Infrastructure, Defense-Wide Information Assurance Program), as well as to members of the Defense Information

  • ACC Performance and Training-Related ATD "WRAPs" Up

    AFRL completed a Category I advanced technology demonstration (ATD) for Air Combat Command's (ACC) Warfighter Readiness Assessment and Performance Measurement and Tracking System (WRAPMTS). This research program developed and demonstrated an integrated capability for performance measurement and

  • Improving AF Situational Awareness with Smart Satellite Imagery

    Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) and small business Geosemble Technologies are improving Air Force situational awareness with software that presents vast amounts of map data in a more manageable format for its commanders in theater. Using basic research funding from the

  • 'Conductive ink' solar panels capture sun power for soldiers

    Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (AFRL/RX), in a concerted effort with Plextronics, Inc., and the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, both located in Pittsburgh, Pa., developed a ready-to-use, cost-reducing technology that can

  • Base exercise to run July 8 - 10

    Base and local emergency response officials plan to jointly exercise response actions following two simulated aircraft crashes here July 8-10. Other exercise activity will also be going on throughout the three days. Several scenarios will test fire fighting, security, command and control and other

  • Senior DoD human systems leaders seek synergy at WPAFB meeting

    A historic Human Systems Senior Leader Forum was held 24-25 June 2009 at Wright-Patterson AFB, hosted by the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing.Department of Defense leaders at the general officer and senior executive service level gathered to share perspectives on their

  • Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Power Laser in Flight

    Members of the 413th Flight Test Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., and contractor Boeing successfully fired the high-power laser aboard the Advanced Tactical Laser aircraft for the first time in flight. The combined effort was instrumental to the "first light" of the high power ATL. "This successful

  • Tactical Satellite-3 completes successful first month of operations

    A month after launching, the Tactical Satellite-3 has exceeded expectations and is performing well, accoding to the program manager of the experimental spacecraft. Launched on May 19, TacSat-3 is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here. Within 30 days of

  • Ride with us to Tattoo

    Many events are judged by visitors from the time the family car is parked until the time it arrives back home, and the people behind Air Force Materiel Command's Freedom's Call Tattoo have spent months preparing to send everyone home satisfied. The fifth annual Tattoo event, on the grounds of the