 
USAFSAM's DIMO presents regional trauma and disaster response training
Lt. Colonel W. Tracy Jones (left) is shown with Tajikistan Minister of Health Nusratullo Salimov following a regional trauma and disaster response training event held in Tajikistan for 26 senior-level physicians representing Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. (Air Force photo)
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Posted: 9/21/2009
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USAFSAM's Defense Institute for Medical Operations trains Tajikistan physicians
Defense Institute for Medical Operations members who participated in a training mission for physicians in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan included (from left): Lt. Col. Barry Thomas, Captain Heather Hancock, Mr. Nusratullo Salimov, Tajikistan Minister of Health; Captain Francis Obuseh, and Lt. Col. W. Tracey Jones. (Air Force photo)
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Posted: 9/21/2009
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X-Ray Fluorescence Gets Glowing Reports in Engine Debris Analysis
Researchers from AFRL and industry partner GasTOPS, Inc., successfully demonstrated this prototype engine lubricant analyzer, which employs X-ray fluorescence technology. The XRF analyzer uses data from an aircraft engine's magnetic chip detectors to assess the levels and types of particulate debris captured (AFRL image).
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Posted: 9/21/2009
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New Magnetron Could Help Defeat Enemy Electronics
Existing UM relativistic magnetron that generates 100's of MW of microwave power. The new UM magnetron invention is expected to be much more compact than the existing device with higher power and faster startup.
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Posted: 9/10/2009
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Super-fast Computing
Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data storage and transmission on Air Force systems. (Bo Sun, artist, Applied Physics doctoral student, University of Michigan)
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Posted: 9/8/2009
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711th Human Performance Wing program wins regional technology transfer award
Kristen Schario (left), regional coordinator for the Federal Laboratory Consortium Midwest Region, presented an FLC Midwest Region Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for AFRL’s Live-Virtual-Constructive technology to (from second-left) Kristen Barrera, LVC program manager; and AFRL collaborators Brian Schreiber of LUMIR Research, Inc. and Rod Powers from Cubic Applications, Inc. (Photo by Amanda Snyder, FLC)
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Posted: 9/4/2009
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SBIR On Board With Engine Health Management
An AFRL/industry Small Business Innovation Research effort successfully demonstrated a generic integrated onboard system supporting aircraft engine health management.
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Posted: 9/11/2009
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Affordable RadHard Components a Modified Foundry Away
AFRL demonstrated a technique that uses
16 Mbit static random access memory to modify a high-volume, commercial microcircuit foundry to provide radiation-hardened microcircuits with high yield and reduced cost. The new technique lowers production costs by millions of dollars and is minimally invasive to the foundry?s existing commercial process.
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Posted: 9/11/2009
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Tracking space clutter
The sodium guidestar provides real-time, high-fidelity tracking and imaging of satellites too faint for conventional optical systems. Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Starfire Optical Range at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., use this break-through technology to provide valuable space situational awareness capability. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Posted: 9/3/2009
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Shiva Star
Research into the military applications of high-energy pulsed power systems is conducted in the 34,261-square-foot Air Force Research Laboratory?s Directed Energy Directorate, High Power Systems Facility. The facility houses Shiva Star, the Air Force?s largest pulsed-power system. Shiva Star stores nearly 10 million joules of energy (equal to 5 pounds of TNT). It produces a pulse of 120,000 volts and 10 million amps in one-millionth of a second to produce a power flow equivalent to a terawatt. Shiva Star has evolved from a 1 megajoule system in 1975, a 2 megajoule system in 1979, to its final form as a 10 megajoule system in 1982. Shiva Star has been used over the years for many different types of experiments such as pulse compression to increase energy in the pulse, plasma liner implosion for production of x-rays, solid liner implosions to compress matter to high density and pressure, compact toroids for generating high-energy plasmas, and simulation of explosive pulsed-power generators. U.S. Air Force photo
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Posted: 9/3/2009
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Mission ready electronics
AFOSR-funded near-field plates could lead to microscopes with unprecedented resolution, hi-tech lithography systems, and electronics that are always charged and mission ready. (Photo Credit: Cyan James)
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Posted: 9/2/2009
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Supercomputer supports Gotcha radar
Distinguished visitors dedicate Desch, an SGI Altix ICE 8200 supercomputer, during a ribbon cutting ceremony August 31 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The new supercomputer is named after Joseph Desch, a Dayton, Ohio engineer who developed computing machines during World War II to decipher German Enigma-coded communications. It will be used to translate real-time synthetic aperture radar data from the Gotcha radar system being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory into high-resolution 3D images. Pictured from left to right are Dr. David Jerome, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate; Deborah Desch Anderson, daughter of Joseph Desch; Dr. Michael Kuliasha, AFRL chief technologist; Jim Brinker, vice president of SGI Federal Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/William Pugh)
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Posted: 9/1/2009
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