IVAN, AFRL’s Immediate Visual Assessment and Neutralization unmanned ground vehicle

IVAN, AFRL’s Immediate Visual Assessment and Neutralization unmanned ground vehicle, can function autonomously or with operator input, delivering lethal or nonlethal payloads, securing base perimeters, and performing similarly redundant and/or dangerous tasks. (AFRL image)

Scanning electron microscopy image

Scanning electron microscopy image of Shewanella oneidensis bacterial biofilm associated with a carbon fiber electrode (AFRL image)

Standard Space Trainer

A Government Accountability Office report entitled “SPACE ACQUISITIONS – Challenges in Commercializing Technologies Developed Under the SBIR Program” praised AFRL contributions to the Small Business Innovation Research-enabled Standard Space Trainer. (AF image)

Rubidium vapor fluoresces under the illumination of a semiconductor laser

Photodigm, Inc., engineer Judy Perez observes the faint, deep red glow of rubidium (Rb) vapor fluorescing under illumination of the company’s new semiconductor laser, precisely tuned to match an electronic transition of Rb atoms. (Credit: Martin Achtenhagen)

VIM-VAR

VIM-VAR [vacuum induction melting-vacuum arc remelting] steel (AFRL image)

AFRL's LaserFest

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first working laser, and AFRL is recognizing the five decades of successful laser-based research, development, and application through a yearlong event known as LaserFest. (AFRL image)

The Virtual Environment Research, Interactive Technology, and Simulation Chamber

The Virtual Environment Research, Interactive Technology, and Simulation Chamber enables investigations of advanced audio technology that could aid warfighter combat awareness. (Air Force image)

Advanced Guided Weapons Test Bed

To test the capacity of wide-field-of-view sensors to aid urban combat weapons navigation, the Advanced Guided Weapons Test Bed projects dimensional scenes. (AFRL image)

Radio frequency manifold created in Phase I and Phase A efforts of an AFRL Manufacturing Technology?led program for improving the manufacture—and consequently, reducing the costs—of Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems (AFRL image)

Radio frequency manifold created in Phase I and Phase A efforts of an AFRL Manufacturing Technology-led program for improving the manufacture—and consequently, reducing the costs—of Active Electronically Scanned Array radar systems (AFRL image)

Pyroshock testing of hard-target fuzes

AFRL is performing pyroshock tests that will aid efforts to improve intelligent fuzes and penetrators for hard-target defeat. (AFRL image))

Dr. Datta Gaitonde (right) receives the 2010 AIAA

Dr. Datta Gaitonde (right) receives the 2010 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Thermophysics Award at the June 29 AIAA Awards Luncheon in Chicago. (AFRL image)

Kentucky Air Guard supports aeromedical training

CINCINNATI, OHIO -- Capt. Marsha Starks, a nurse from the 633rd Air Base Wing at Langley Air Force Base, Va., notes the vital signs of a simulated patient while airborne Feb 11, 2010, as 1st Lt. Leann Hisle, a flight nurse from 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., observes. Captain Starks was participating in a two-week Critical Care Air Transport Team course designed to provide medical personnel with total immersion in the care of severely injured patients. Ground training and simulated-flight training are conducted at the University of Cincinnati, one of four Air Force Centers for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (CSTARS) nationwide, but the final day of instruction is provided during actual flight aboard a Kentucky Air Guard C-130. Kentucky's 165th Airlift Squadron began providing C-130s to use as a CSTARS training platform in 2009. (U.S. Air Force by Maj. Dale Greer)