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)