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Illustration of cooperative communications with source node A, relay nodes B and C, and destination node D. (AFRL Image)

Illustration of cooperative communications with source node A, relay nodes B and C, and destination node D. A paper by AFRL associates won an award at IEEE ICC 2010. (AFRL Image)

Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE). (AFRL Image)

Combined Information Data Network Exchange (CIDNE) is used daily by thousands of military personnel, civilians and analysts as the US CENTCOM-directed tool for the majority of operational reporting within Afghanistan and Iraq. (AFRL Image)

BATNET provides better IP capabilities to dismounted troops. (AFRL Image)

Battlefield Airman Targeting Network (BATNET) is lighter and smaller, while providing increased IP capabilities for dismounted troops. (AFRL Image)

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Links to more information about Spring Review

AFOSR Spring Review 2012

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research will host its annual Spring Review from 5 through 9 March, 2012. This program review, to be held at 950 Glebe Road, Suite 210, in Arlington, Virginia, will be the 55th formally designated annual assessment of AFOSR’s research portfolio. It will also be streamed live online. For more information, visit https://community.apan.org/afosr/spring_review_2012.

Superfluid Helium Droplet Assembler schematic

Schematic of AFRL’s new Superfluid Helium Droplet Assembler, which synthesizes energetic material nanoclusters and thereby aids advanced munitions research. Shown left to right are the helium droplet source, pickup cells wherein nanocluster synthesis (layering) occurs, and diagnostic instrumentation. (Image courtesy of Shelley Bloomfield, AFRL/RW)

Research Quenches Need for Mixed-Dimensional Coil Modeling

A diverse effort involving lab funding and Florida A&M University research produced a hybrid finite element model for analyzing quench dynamics in superconducting coils. (AFRL image)

YIP making large strides

Young Investigator Research Program computer scientists are making large strides in developing new tools and techniques to reverse-engineer data-hiding algorithms from watermark detectors, which once commercialized and deployed, will improve the security of the GlobalInformation Grid of the Air Force computer networks.(Graphic by Craver, Binghamton University)

Self-Healing Circuits Boost Performance, Cut Costs

As part of supporting a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to create self-healing integrated circuitry, AFRL sensors scientists oversaw development of a wideband, 6-18 GHz receiver-on-a-chip with baseband outputs, the architecture of which is illustrated. (Air Force image)