Self-Reconfigurable Robots Funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Self-Reconfigurable Robots Funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research

711 HPW engineers design improved in-flight safety restraint

Engineers from the 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, partnered with Wolf Technical Services, Inc., to design and test the Universal Mobile Aircrew Restraint System for crewmembers who must remain mobile while working in the rear section of a helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. When coupled with an improved body harness, engineers expect the device to help reduce fatalities and injuries suffered by medics, pararescuers, gunners and flight engineers involved in mishaps or violent in-flight maneuvers. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

Student researcher plays a smart game for 711 HPW and Diamonds

Student researcher Robyn Bradford of the 711th Human Performance Wing's Human Effectiveness Directorate suits up April 11 in preparation for the Dayton Diamonds' first full-contact intrasquad scrimmage on their Roush Stadium home field. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

711 HPW student researcher takes two-minute-drill approach to life

Robyn Bradford, a Consortium Research Fellows Program student with the 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, is one of several Dayton Diamonds women's professional football players with a connection to the military and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

AFRL simplifies data transfer for combat controllers

AFRL project engineer Greg Burnett demonstrates the user-friencly cable designed for combat controllers to quickly transfer digital coordinates from a laser rangefinder to a computer in the field. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

711 HPW Stand Up Ceremony

Major Gen. Curtis M. Bedke, AFRL Commander, and Mr. Thomas S. Wells, 711th Human Performance Wing Director, stand at attention for the reading of the official order to activate the 711th HPW. The ceremony was held at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenny Auditorium, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, March 25. Photo by Chris Gulliford

Staff Sergeant Dennis Krouse, of the 9th Air Support Operations Squadron, calls for F-16 close air support on enemy positions inside the virtual environment of AFRL’s Joint Terminal Attack Control Training and Rehearsal System (photo by AFRL’s Gina Cinard

Staff Sergeant Dennis Krouse, of the 9th Air Support Operations Squadron, calls for F-16 close air support on enemy positions inside the virtual environment of AFRL’s Joint Terminal Attack Control Training and Rehearsal System (photo by AFRL’s Gina Cinardo).

Cooperative Operations in Urban Terrain Program Reaches Important Flight Test Milestone

Cooperative Operations in Urban Terrain program unmanned air vehicle

AFRL Funds Research of Oil-Repellent Surfaces

This graphic shows the magnification of microfiber composed of fluorinated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes, or FluoroPOSS, which repels both water and oil.

Fiber laser

Fiber laser

Mr. Scott Fleming (pictured left), anthropologist with AFRL’s Human Effectiveness Directorate, positions AFRL Vice Commander Colonel David B. Glade II in the lab’s three-dimensional whole-body surface scanner as he explains how the body measurement proces

Mr. Scott Fleming (pictured left), anthropologist with AFRL’s Human Effectiveness Directorate, positions AFRL Vice Commander Colonel David B. Glade II in the lab’s three-dimensional whole-body surface scanner as he explains how the body measurement process works (photo by AFRL’s Chris Gulliford).

AFRL/Boeing Mach 6 Quiet Wind Tunnel

AFRL/Boeing Mach 6 Quiet Wind Tunnel

AFRL partners with Kettering Health Network on human performance study

Colonel Patricia A. Reilly, chief of AFRL's Human Effectiveness Directorate, Biosciences and Protection Division, listens with Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher as a panel member explains details of an Air Force collaboration with Kettering Health Network to study fatigue and human performance. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

AFRL partners with Kettering Health Network on human performance study

AFRL partners with Kettering Health Network on human performance study

Military vehicle marked with TRON I (glowing strip in the center) and TRON III, as viewed through night vision goggles

Military vehicle marked with TRON I (glowing strip in the center) and TRON III, as viewed through night vision goggles

Member of the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group shown wearing TRON I

Member of the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group shown wearing TRON I

AFRL's CAESAR project wins technology transfer award

Dr. Kathleen Robinette

AFRL auditory horizon named DoD Hot Technology

Test subject Jay Brandon, a senior research engineer in the Flight Dynamics Branch at NASA Langley Research Center, wears opaque black goggles to literally “fly blind” during 3D audio tests conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory Human Effectiveness Directorate at the NASA Langley Research Center in Virginia. The instrumentation on top of Brandon's head is a head-tracking system that measures the orientation of the pilot's head for updating the 3D audio display. (Photo courtesy AFRL)

Target Recognition Operator Notification system supports warfighters

1st Lt. TJ Turner, a member of the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group, is shown through night vision googles holding TRON III (left) and TRON I. Air Force Research Laboratory partnered with industry to develop the identification system to save lives and enhance combat effectiveness. (U.S. Air Force photo)

TRON to save lives, increase combat effectiveness

1st Lt. TJ Turner, a member of the 455th Expeditionary Mission Support Group is shown wearing TRON I on his left shoulder. Air Force Research Laboratory partnered with industry to develop the identification system to save lives and enhance combat effectiveness. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Blast pressure hitting precast concrete wall panels creates water vapor clouds that evaporate a few milliseconds later.

Blast pressure hitting precast concrete wall panels creates water vapor clouds that evaporate a few milliseconds later.

Automated aerial refueling flight test

Automated aerial refueling flight test

Brig. Gen. Dana H. Born presents furled SES flag to outgoing RH director

Dr. Hendrick W. "Henk" Ruck (right) accepts the furled and sheathed Senior Executive Service flag from Brig. Gen. Dana H. Born, Dean of the Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy. Gen. Born was the featured speaker January 4 as Dr. Ruck stepped down as director of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate. Looking on at left is AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Curtis M. Bedke. (Photo by Chris Gulliford AFRL/RH)

AFRL student researcher named ESPN Academic All-America

Shauna Stapleton, an Air Force Research Laboratory technician and entomology student at Purdue University, has been named to ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-America Women's Soccer Team for 2007.