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  • Deployed Scientist Helps AF Leadership Understand Afghan Population

    Air Force Research Laboratory scientist Lieutenant Colonel Alex Barelka, PhD, used his six-month deployment to Afghanistan to apply methodologies honed at home in the 711th Human Performance Wing, where he works as a Behaviorist. Lt Col Barelka, deployed last November to serve as Chief of Assessment

  • Collision Avoidance Technology Expands to F-16 Aircraft

    Through the Hybrid Technology (Hy-Tech) program, AFRL researchers have developed the Hybrid Flight Control Computer (HFLCC), which enables integration of digital cards into F-16 Analog Flight Control Computers. The HFLCC allows F-16s that are not equipped with digital flight control computers to

  • All Access Contest offers chance to win VIP parking

    Anyone registering for the 2013 Air Force Marathon before February 28 will be automatically entered for a chance to win one of our All Access Prize Packages. "This is the fourth year we've had this contest," said Robert Aguiar, Air Force Marathon Race Director, "We are filling up faster this year

  • AFRL Sensor Supports Surrogate Predator Program

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Standoff Intelligence Detection (SID) team is supporting the Surrogate Predator program with an asset that relays real-time video to the ground for battlefield situational awareness through an AFRL-installed infrared downlink. The Surrogate Predator program

  • New AFRL Initiative Shares Artifacts, Period Pieces with Museums

    The Air Force Research Laboratory has entered into education partnership agreements with two prominent museums, the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, and Explora Science Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The agreements allow AFRL to lend historical artifacts such as

  • ‘Life Cycle Thrust' directorate making a name throughout command

    In six months, the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Propulsion Directorate has come into its own. Emphasizing the motto, "Life Cycle Thrust," the directorate prides itself on a new way of doing business.Introduced by Air Force Materiel Command in the summer of 2012, the propulsion

  • KC-135 tankers get a boost from innovative, fuel-saving engines

    Some decades-old KC-135 Stratotanker are drinking from the fountain of youth -- or at least the engines are.Airmen installed the first of 1,440 upgraded Stratotanker engines at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Jan. 15. The 1970s engine parts will be replaced with modern engines that burn less fuel and

  • F-35 training 'Year of execution' in review

    This time last year, the 33rd Fighter Wing stood up its Marine squadron with a fleet of aircraft with the thought 2012 would be their "year of execution."Air Force F-35 Lightning IIs stationed here would take off for their first of hundreds of sorties that year once they had their military flight

  • Air Force begins testing new pod capability

    The Air Force completed testing this month on a flying wireless router to ground troops with almost instantaneous communications. The biggest difference between the router in most homes and the new flying router... the Air Force's version is attached to a 30mm Gatling gun.The flying router is a new