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)

Heat resistant ceramic coating research promising for future aerospace vehicles

University of Arizona Professor Erica L. Corral (second from left) with her undergraduate and graduate research assistants review research findings in the high-temperature ceramics lab. The UA students shown from left to right are Doctoral candidates David Pham and Luke S. Walker and undergraduate research assistants Victoria Marotto and Mario Valdez. Air Force Office of Scientific Research is supporting the effort for future hypersonic aerospace applications. (Courtesy photo/Pete Brown, University of Arizona)

Third Year Residency in Aerospace Medicine student speaks with a group about

Maj. Erich Schroeder, 3rd Year Residency in Aerospace Medicine student speaks with a group about his experiences in the program; “Knowing what the warfighter needs and how to best support those needs are what the RAM helps us do.” Maj Schroeder will graduate from the RAM program on June 30th, 2011 as part of the last graduating class from Brooks City-Base. The USAF School of Aerospace Medicine is currently relocating to Wright-Patterson AFB. Behind Maj Schroeder are many of the reminders of the long heritage of the RAM program. (Photo By: Amy Velasquez, USAFSAM/EDD)

School of Aerospace Medicine’s massive move begins with classes at temporary location

Colonel Donald Noah, deputy commander of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, welcomes students to the first class at the school’s temporary location at the Kettering Business Park in Kettering, Ohio. The School of Aerospace Medicine is relocating to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio from Brooks-City Base in Texas.

AFRL showcases integrated training capabilities at I/ITSEC

The 711th Human Performance Wing Human Effectiveness Directorate’s Warfighter Readiness Research Division showcased its integrated training capabilities at the 2010 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Fla. Nov. 29 - Dec. 2, 2010. Demonstrations linked Division and partner tools and technologies such as Remotely Piloted Aircraft mission training devices together with others, such as Joint Terminal Attack Controller and Airborne Warning and Control System trainers in integrated theater combat operations training research set of scenarios. The 711th HPW is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Bruce Liddil)

Colonel Platt AFRL promotion

Lt. Col. Michael H. Platt, Air Force Research Laboratory Detachment 7 commander, is officially promoted to colonel during a ceremony at AFRL’s Rocket Science Center, Nov. 30. Colonel Platt had his family pin on his new rank in front of AFRL staff and Edwards leadership. He has commanded AFRL’s Edwards detachment since July. (Air Force photo by Ron Fair)

HBC Research Nets Double-or-Nothing eat Transfer

North Carolina A&T State University-developed spray chamber for testing technologies that could enhance high-heat-flux heat transfer. (AFRL image)

STEM Puts Students in the Driver's "Seat"

Pictured left to right, students fly a remote-control aircraft, launch a rocket, and attend a robot competition. (AFRL image)

Materials Innovation Amplifies Terahertz Power and Performance

A single-wall carbon nanotube fiber made to design specifications for a traveling wave tube amplifier. (AFRL image)

AOS Team Aids Haitian Earthquake Recovery

Pictured is the Port-au-Prince-based Toussaint Louverture International Airport runway before and after an AFRL team's removal of dangerous rubber buildup. (AFRL image)

AOS Team Aids Haitian Earthquake Recovery

AFRL materials experts created a chemical rubber removal system (pictured) that safely and effectively removed dangerous buildup from a Port-au-Prince airport used during the Haitian earthquake recovery effort. (AFRL image)

Gold Nanoparticles Increase Viral 'Brainpower'

Transmission electron microscope pictures reflect gold nanoparticles attached to viruses. (AFRL image)

Space Responsiveness a la Carte

Mini-PnP ASIM (AFRL image)