AFRL Sensors Scientist Earns Air Force Science and Engineering Award

Dr. Boris Tomasic, of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Sensors Directorate, earned the 2009 Air Force Science and Engineering Award for Exploratory or Advanced Technology Development. The award recognizes noteworthy achievements in applied research or advanced technology development, with emphasis on improving technology readiness levels, transitioning technology into acquisition programs, and/or direct-fielding technology to operational forces.

Payload Demonstration Success a 'Project Marti' Party

Air Force Research Laboratory engineers used this high-altitude (60,000-85,000 ft) balloon in demonstrating the feasibility of a new payload that supports tactical operations by enabling airborne publish-and-subscribe database access and geographically extended machine-to-machine situational awareness in limited-bandwidth battlefield environments. (Photo Credit: Mathew Gillen)

Geodesic Dome Phased-Array Antenna Demonstrates TT&C Capacity

The Geodesic Dome Phased-Array Antenna Advanced Technology Demonstration proved the antenna's capacity to provide multiple, simultaneous, dual-band (L-band and S-band) contacts for telemetry, tracking, and command of Air Force Satellite Control Network satellites.

Affordability Initiative Software Lowers Aircraft Engine Component Costs

Air Force Research Laboratory engineers worked with GE Aircraft Engine Group, Rolls Royce Corporation, and other industry partners to develop and transition a new manufacturing methodology that uses enhanced DEFORM software to lower the costs of producing components such as the pictured aircraft engine disk.

T-REX Hits New Heights in Human Performance Training Research

Observers measure warfighter performance during T-REX 09-1, an important Training Research Exercise conducted by the Air Force Research Laboratory Warfighter Readiness Research Division's Air and Space Operations Center and geared towards investigating immersive learning, information simulation, and other leading-edge training tactics. (Photo by Bruce Liddil / Air Force photo)

Louisiana Civic Leaders tour Eglin AFB

Briefer Brian Mitchell informs a group of civic leaders about past, present and future war technology, in the Taconi Room of the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., October 22, 2009. More than twenty-six influential civic leaders from the Shreveport/Bossier City area of Louisiana gained first-hand knowledge of operations of the Air Force during a two-day “Civic Leader Tour” flight from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., to Eglin on October 21-22, 2009. The leaders received several mission briefings and viewed a static display of the MC-130 Combat Talon I as well as touring several facilities at Eglin AFB and Duke Field, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Jeff Walston)