Orgranizational Chart

Orgranizational Chart

AFOSR MC Laser Technology Creates New Forms of Metal and Enhances Aircraft Performance

Dr. Chunlei Guo of the University of Rochester stands in front of his femtosecond laser. (Credit: Walter Colley Studio)

JSHS #3

Female high school students edged out their male counterparts at the 47th National Junior Sciences Humanities and Symposium (JSHS), a four-day science research competition sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), the Army Research Office (ARO), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) held at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA). Of the six first-place winners, four girls took home the top prize in their respective research categories. (U.S. Air Force photo/USAFA)

JSHS #2

Faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy Space Physics and Atmospheric Research Center demonstrate the equipment used in their lab to a small group of students as part of the 47th National Junior Sciences Humanities and Symposium held in Colorado Springs, Colo. (U.S. Air Force photo/LeAndrea White)

Air Force Funds New Generation of Energy Efficient UAVs

With AFOSR funding, a team from the University of Michigan is working on a project to integrate solar power cheaply and easily into the base materials used to build UAVs. The team is pictured above posing around a customized reel-to-reel coating apparatus they developed for making large quantities of fiber-based energy conversion devices. (Center) Max Shtein, an assistant professor working on optoelectronic materials and devices, thin-film processing (Left to Right) Kevin Pipe, an assistant professor working on thermal phenomena in materials and devices; Brendan O'Connor, a graduate student working on organic solar cells on fibers; Abhishek Yadav, a graduate student working on thermoelectric devices on fibers; and Steven Morris, a graduate student working on reel-to-reel deposition of films and devices on fibers. (Photo Credit: University of Michigan)

AFOSR MC Detecting Explosives and Guiding High Power Microwaves with Curved Laser Beams

An ideal finite-energy Airy Beam, a light beam that can bend and propagate without spreading.(Credit: Dr. Georgios Siviloglou, Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida)

Four 150 W fiber amplifiers

Four 150 W fiber amplifiers emitting average far-field intensity with phase-locked feedback “off.” (U.S. Air Force)

Four 150 W fiber amplifiers

Four 150 W fiber amplifiers emitting far-field intensity for a sparse array with phase-locked feedback “on.” (U.S. Air Force)

B-52 fuel strainer

The B-52 fuel strainer (shown with captured debris) is part of the filter system affected by cracking and peeling of the fuel tank’s protective interior coating. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Ground test under way

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne SJX61-2 Mach 5 ground test under way at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center’s 8 ft high-temperature tunnel. (U.S. Air Force)

AFOSR Program Manager Receives Web Intelligence Recognition

Dr. Hiroshi Motoda, program manager with the Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD) — an international detachment of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) — has been awarded the 2008 Web Intelligence Consortium Outstanding Contribution Award. (Credit: AF Photo)

AFOSR SPC CMST

(L-R) St. Peter's College President Eugene J. Cornacchia, Ph.D. accepts a large novelty check from AFOSR Director Dr. Brendan Godfrey and AFOSR program manager, Dr. Robert Barker. The money will help fund the formal establishment of the college's Center for Microplasma Science and Technology. (Credit: St. Peter's College, Jersey City, N.J.)

AFOSR MC Air Force Supports Sugar-to-Hydrogen Research

If Zhang and his team are successful with their research, they will help to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by producing hydrogen from biomass sugar and at the same time increase energy utilization efficiency. (Credit: Dr. Percival Zhang, Virginia Tech)

AFOSR MC Communication Earplug Offers Hearing Protection to Pilots

AFOSR-sponsored research has led to a communication earplug that revolutionizes hearing protection for Air Force pilots and flight crews and could substantially reduce hearing loss and improve radio communication. (Credit:Sound Innovations, Inc.)

AFOSR MC Making High-Quality, Lower-Cost Transistors for Flexible electronics

Transistors after processing: metallic carbon nanotubes have been removed from the semiconducting tubes. (Credit: DuPont)

AFOSR MC Ledlie Prize Awarded for Research Expected to Improve Fiber Optics and Computing

Dr. Lene Hau, Mallinckrodt professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University, has discovered applications through her work with light and matter that will impact the Air Force by providing significant advances in computing, optical networks, and quantum cryptography. (Photo courtesy of Justin Ide/Harvard News Office)

Dr. Michael Berman

AFOSR Program Manager Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (Credit: AFOSR)

Micci

Air Force-supported Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) research that began at Pennsylvania State University may lead to higher performing miniaturized electric propulsion systems for satellites. This would mean improved satellite maneuverability, endurance, fabrication and testing of a space flight ready microwave thruster system. Credit: Frederic Souliez, Penn State University.

JHU

A celebrated electrical and computer engineering professor at Johns Hopkins University is conducting AFOSR-supported research about the “miniaturization” of electronic chips, which would allow for lighter, smaller and faster computers for the Air Force. Dr. Alexander Kaplan, right, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Dr. Sergei Volkov, a postdoctoral fellow at John’s Hopkins University are working together on the research. (Photo Credit: Will Kirk, Johns Hopkins University)

Bat-Inspired Flight for MAVs

As part of the 2007 MURI program, researchers from several universities are studying how the biological attributes of flapping and flexible flight demonstrated by birds, bats and insects can improve future MAV systems. This research has led to the creation of engineering models, such as the one illustrated in this graphic. (Image credit: Dr. Wei Shyy, University of Michigan)

Thurgood Marshall

David Streat, AFOSR program Manager (left) and Ed Lee, AFOSR Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions deputy director (right), join Dr. N. Joyce Payne, founder of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Leadership Institute. AFOSR is actively engaging historically black and minority institutions to expand the pool and talent of students participating in Air Force research. (photo courtesy of the Thurgood Marshall Leadership Institute)

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Destructive acoustic waves inside a simulated rocket combustor. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Dr. Howard Schlossberg

Dr. Howard Schlossberg

Cognitive Modeling-Software Engineering Workshop

Cognitive Modeling-Software Engineering Workshop