• Knighthoods for Nobel-winning Graphene Pioneers

    Two Nobel laureates funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), involved in the creation and isolation of graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, have received British knighthoods from the Queen of England. Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, from the

  • Graphene: Impressive Capabilities on the Horizon

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), along with other funding agencies, helped a Rice University research team make graphene suitable for a variety of organic chemistry applications--especially the promise of advanced chemical sensors, nanoscale electronic circuits and metamaterials.

  • Wright-Patt volunteers a hit with local civic organization

    Wright-Patterson Air Force Base received the President's Volunteer Service Award at the Habitat for Humanity volunteer celebration Jan. 19. The base was one of three organizations to take top group honors at the annual award event, held at the America's Packard Museum in downtown Dayton. Maj. Lee

  • Aero-Optics Beacon Corrects Turbulence Around Aircraft Platform

    In response to an Air Force need for a beacon to correct for the near-field turbulence around an aircraft platform, the Air Force Research worked with Passat Inc. through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project to develop a technology that would assist in this correction. Phase II SBIR

  • AFRL Increases Production Size of Sapphire Sheets for Windows

    Air Force Research Laboratory Materials researchers teamed with Saint-Gobain Ceramics and Plastics Inc., to develop new manufacturing processes that increase the size and thickness of sapphire sheets for electro-optic (EO) and infrared (IR) windows.This collaborative work pushed the state of the art

  • Unmanned Operational Envelope Expands Through Sense & Avoid Technologies

    The Air Force Research Laboratory took another step toward developing conflict and collision avoidance technologies for unmanned aircraft with the Multiple Intruder Autonomous Avoidance (MIAA) flight demonstration. The demonstration was a five-day effort to evaluate the software algorithms and other

  • Air Force announces workforce restructure

    Air Force officials announced 4,500 additional positions for elimination as a continuation of its FY12 Civilian Workforce Restructure. This reduction builds on the realignments announced in November, including the elimination of 9000 positions and the addition of 5900 positions against the Air

  • Base plans controlled burn at Huffman Prairie

    The annual prairie burn, originally scheduled for this past November will take place today at approximately 1 p.m.Base officials had to postpone the burn until favorable weather. To be successful, very precise temperature, relative humidity, wind direction, wind speed and ground moisture conditions