Located at the Griffiss Business and Technology Park, the Information Directorate occupies 892,896 sq ft (100 acres) of floor space in six buildings. The site features some of the finest research and development facilities in the country, including areas for research in intelligence exploitation, communication networks, information fusion and virtual reality. The Information Directorate also operates two off-base sites: Newport, NY and Stockbridge, NY.
Technical Library
The Technical Library of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate is regarded as an in-depth resource in the areas of computer science, signal processing, communications, and radar. It is part of a network of research libraries that work together to bring scientific literature to the military and engineering staff of all AFRL locations and components. The Technical Library encompasses extensive electronic and traditional collections of research papers, technical reports, journals, and over 23,000 books.
Newport Research Facility
The Newport Research Facility is located 26 miles northeast of Rome in Herkimer County. It is the largest facility of its kind with the most advanced instrumentation and antenna measurement technology to the United States. The facility is located on two hilltops that are situated approximately one and one-half miles apart with a 400-foot-deep intervening valley. The facility has several "far field elevated" outdoor ranges spanning the two hilltops. The primary mission is to evaluate antenna performance on full scale aircraft.
Stockbridge Research Facility
The Stockbridge Research Facility is located 23 miles southwest of Rome in Madison County. The facility consists of 300 acres of land with 13,983 sq ft of laboratory, office, operations center, maintenance, equipment modification and storage space, and a heavy duty turntable with a 200 ft high arched measurement probe system that is used to perform hemispherical RF / Optical system evaluations. The facility is used for demonstrations of advance RF / Optical communications systems, radar imaging systems, foliage penetration studies and for communications link experiments with small unmanned aircraft systems.
