AFRL tests NASA communications system

Engineer Dustin Gohmert of NASA’s Johnson Space Center installs a launch/entry helmet over the communications cap worn by test subject John Vinskey of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Human Effectiveness Directorate are conducting tests to determine the level of hearing protection that the equipment provides. (Photo by Chris Gulliford, AFRL/HE)

AFRL tests NASA communications system

Engineer Dustin Gohmert of NASA’s Johnson Space Center locks a launch/entry helmet into place on test subject Beth Greschner of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems. NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Human Effectiveness Directorate are testing a next-generation communications system for shuttle astronauts. (Photo by Chris Gulliford, AFRL/HE)

AFRL tests NASA communications system

Engineer Dustin Gohmert of NASA’s Johnson Space Center installs a launch/entry helmet over the communications cap worn by test subject John Vinskey of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems as audiologist Dr. Richard W. Danielson of the National Space Biomedical Research Institute observes. NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Human Effectiveness Directorate are conducting tests to determine the level of hearing protection provided by a new communications system. (Photo by Chris Gulliford, AFRL/HE)

AFRL/HE chief scientist retires

"...I approached each problem with a passion and a sense that time was critical because I was leaving soon..." Dr. Kenneth R. Boff, AFRL/HE chief scientist, whose first position out of New York's Columbia University evolved into a 30-year career with the Air Force Research Laboratory. (Photo by Chris Gulliford, AFRL/HE)

AFRL/HE chief scientist retires

"Turned out I was the only one with the right expertise to deal with the problems..." Dr. Kenneth R. Boff, AFRL/HE chief scientist, on his early success in applying human factors psychology to complex systems design. (Photo by Chris Gulliford, AFRL/HE)

AFRL, FAA team up for laser safety research

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Tech. Sgt. Darrell Martin and electrical engineer Brenda J. Novar, an AFRL/HEDO contractor with Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology Group and creator of the laser control optics, adjust the laser guidance system they developed and integrated with the Federal Aviation Administration’s full-motion flight simulator at the FAA’s facility in Oklahoma City, Okla. (Photo by John Schutte AFRL/HE)

Coin presented

Lt. Col. John Kaplan, Director, Policy and Integration, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (right) presents Maj. General William T. Lord, Director, Services and Integration, Secretary of the Air Force of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., with an AFOSR coin in appreciation for Maj. General Lord’s participation as a keynote speaker at the 44th National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium held April 26-30 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Air Force photo by Erin Crawley)

Graduate discussion

Dr. Kathleen Kaplan, Program Manager, External Programs & Resources Interface, Air Force Office of Scientific (AFOSR), discusses AFOSR's grant portfolio for graduate and post graduate students with a student attendee at the 44th National Junior Science and Humanities Symposium held April 26-30 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Air Force photo by Erin Crawley)

Grant awarded

Col. Jeff Turcotte, Deputy Director at the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, presents a plaque to Prof. Aditi Chattopadhyay, Principal Investigator of the aerospace research project at the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at Arizona State University, supported by an $8.6 million Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative program grant. (Photo by Kenneth Sweat, Arizona State University)

Cluster form to cluster solid

The above illustration represents the element arsenic appearing as a free form cluster (left) and as a cluster solid (right). (Illustration courtesy of Drs. A. W. Caslteman Jr, S.N. Khanna, and A. Sen)

Brownout video displayed

AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate engineer, Dr William Albery, displays video and handouts on AFRL's Rotary Wing Brownout Integrated Solution Study , a program supported by four directorates identified as AFSOC's #1 operational problem.

Inspired flight

Air Force Office of Scientific Research program managers recently participated in a workshop entitled, "Biologically Inspired Flight for Micro Air Vehicles" in Denver, Colorado. One of the topics was "Flow Physics of Flapping Flight" in which attendees discussed flight control options and the flow physics of biology-inspired mechanisms that simultaneously lift, thrust, and hover. (Photo and graphics courtesy of S. Swartz and K. Breuer, Brown University)