New Simulation Software Lights the Way to Better Antilaser Eyewear

AFRL's deployment of commercially developed OptisWorks software enables simulations of light and color for assessing antilaser eyewear designs for military use. Pictured are the results of color changes that occur when a pilot views cockpit instrumentation through the particular design. (Air Force image)

New Simulation Software Lights the Way to Better Antilaser Eyewear

AFRL deployed OptisWorks commercial software to aid engineers in better gauging laser eye protection designs for possible military use. The technology enables accurate simulations of light and color as perceived by pilots. Pictured are the results of a geometric coverage simulation, wherein reverse ray tracing techniques reveal possible laser entry paths. (Air Force image)

ESP Adds New Dimension to Engine Health Prediction

AFRL's transition of Engine Prognosis System technology for accurately predicting the health of turbine engine components will provide the Air Force a means for budgetary, safety, and operational success. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency developed software includes a plug-and-play capability for incorporating updates. (AFRL image)

Tip-to-Tail M&S ReINVENTs the Future of Aircraft Energy Optimization

Tip-to-tail thermal modeling and simulation demonstrates how integrated systems affect each other's individual performance. (AFRL image)

Aerospace Parts Machining Gains an "AdvantEdge"

Drilling analysis of a two-flute twist drill. Illustrated are temperature profiles showing the drill completely broken through the work piece. The graphic also depicts chip formation. (AFRL image)

Aerospace Parts Machining Gains an "AdvantEdge"

Carbide drilling analysis simulated to aid user understanding of cutting edge temperatures and stresses as indications of tool wear (AFRL image)

The RISE of Phoenix

Air Force Research Laboratory's Phoenix information management capability provides Department of Defense organizations and contractors a mechanism for storing, filtering, brokering, routing, and disseminating information to edge consumers

Chat Extractor 'ICEs' the Competition

Headquarters Air Force demand prompted the Air Force Research Laboratory to create ICE, an Internet Relay Chat Coordinate Extractor, that collects geospatial coordinates entered in online chat rooms and plots the locations in FalconView for mapping purposes. (Air Force image)

SBIR Technologies Promise Power and Performance for 'More Electric' Platforms

Pictured left and right, respectively, are the newly demonstrated Advanced Load Emulator and Electrical Accumulator Unit, each of which will impact More Electric Aircraft power capabilities. Shown center are various performance measures collected during the recent demonstration activity. (AFRL image)

Artist conception of TacSat-3

The 880-pound experimental Tactical Satellite-3 developed by Air Force Research Laboratory and launched in May 2009 transfers to operational status under the operational control of Air Force Space Command in June 2010. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Pursuing Multisensor GUI Advances

AFRL-developed Pursuer technology provides users a graphical user interface for assimilating multisensor imagery and metadata for review in one composite display. (AFRL image)

Successful Combined-Cycle Integrated Inlet Testing

This industry-developed, AFRL-tested combined-cycle integrated inlet will contribute to advances in hypersonic cruise and operationally responsive space access capability. (AFRL image)

ManTech/SBIR Effort Drills Into Time and Cost of JSF Production

Artist's concept of Inlet Duct Robotic Drilling cells (AFRL image)

AFRL Commander?s Challenge 2009

Technology devised by Commander?s Challenge 2009 winner Team Wright-Patt displays sensor information in a layered sensing application (pictured) adapted from work already under way in the lab. (AFRL image)

"AIMing" to Improve ISR Data Availability

The server node of Air Force Research Laboratory's Advanced Information Management System resides on the airborne LITENING targeting pod. AIMS provides a high-speed publish/subscribe/query capability for near-real-time delivery of critical data to tactical warfighters. (AFRL image)

"AIMing" to Improve ISR Data Availability

The ground (client) node of Air Force Research Laboratory's server-based Advanced Information Management System (AIMS) uses FalconView for advanced mapping capabilities. AIMS enables warfighters to obtain near-real-time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data. (AFRL image)

Aeromedical Care Advanced by Fuel-Cell-Powered System

AFRL is testing this Portable Electronic Power Supply for Aeromedical Evacuation (PEPSAE) system as an alternative to problematic avionic frequency converters. It is a small, high-power, zero-emissions system designed to provide continuous, long-duration power for individual patients throughout their transport from field hospital to aircraft to base facility and it does not rely on aircraft power to do so.

Advanced Algorithms to Enhance Mobile Autonomous Robots

Pictured is a pattern master screen for mobile autonomous robots that, thanks to small business innovation research-enabled algorithms advancing artificial intelligence to new levels, will ultimately leverage neural control systems technology to adapt and improvise their behavior.

Laser Modeling with Wolfram Mathematica

Screen-shot of the fiber amplifier graphical user interface, a software system in Mathematica to simulate fiber lasers (Artwork credit: Clint Zeringue)

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Coalition data broker

Coalition data broker enables metadata sharing between distributed common ground station and the CSD. AFRL Image.

Coalition data broker

Coalition data broker enables metadata sharing between distributed common ground station and the CSD. AFRL Image.

Prof and graduate students investigate space applications of terahertz technology

Working under an AFRL-funded Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program, Prof Daniel van der Weide and graduate students Rashmi Pahak and Min Choi investigate space applications of terahertz technology at the University of Wisconsin (UW) (photo credit: Jim Beal, UW-Madison College of Engineering).

Antireflective properties of moth eyes

AFRL funds academic researchers to build upon the antireflective properties of moth eyes in order to make better protective skins for unmanned air vehicles. National Taiwan University’s Prof Li-Chyong Chen has produced an antireflective nanostructure surface using arrayed silicon nanotips (photo courtesy of Prof Chen).