• Base to conduct controlled archery deer hunt

    Wright-Patt will hold a proficiency test/lottery drawing on Dec. 7 to identify participants for the controlled archery deer hunt.  Over the past few years the deer herd in the vicinity of the Twin Base Golf Course has been increasing, which has led to an increase in landscape damage to the course;

  • AFRL Scientist Becomes First U.S. Citizen Honored with British Award

    Lt. Col. Laura Barnes of the Air Force Research Laboratory's 711th Human Performance Wing became the first U.S. citizen to receive the Special Commendation Coin from the United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). The award, which Lt Col Barnes received Sept. 14, 2011, is one

  • Lightweight Megawatt Generator Comes Through in Demonstration

    The Air Force Research Laboratory and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase III industry partner Electrodynamics Associates, Inc. demonstrated a multi-megawatt, high speed (15,000 rpm) generator to 25 members of industry and the Department of Defense.The demonstration showed 10X power

  • Universities Succeed in Small Hybrid Propulsion System Demonstrator

    The objective of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Small Engine Research Laboratory (SERL) Capstone Project was to develop a ground-based demonstrator platform to evaluate small, hybrid-electric propulsion/power systems of particular interest to the RPA development community. The project leveraged

  • Ferroelectric Nanoparticle Discovery Greatly Enhances Optical Materials

    AFRL researchers have developed the world's smallest ferroelectric nanoparticles. At less than ten nanometers in size, these materials, with enhanced ferroelectric properties, can be easily incorporated into a range of host materials with uses in photo-activated optical filters, liquid crystal

  • Value Stream Analysis Improves Processes, Saves Money

    Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory have stimulated industrial base investments in infrastructure and technology by leveraging the value stream analysis (VSA) process to identify significant process improvement opportunities.As a result, General Electric Aviation, Pratt & Whitney and

  • Researchers Identify Path to Emulate Visual Cortex V1 and V2 Layers

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Computational Intelligence research group has developed a rapid prototype of the functions traditionally attributed to the visual Brodmann Area 18 (V2) "pale stripe" and has been built to assess "templating" as a plausible mechanism for form perception. V2 pale

  • AFRL Materials Experiments Fly on Endeavour, Return on Discovery

    On 16 May 2011, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Endeavour space shuttle carried Air Force Research Laboratory materials on International Space Station Experiment - 8 (MISSE-8) to the International Space Station (ISS). AFRL researchers designed, built and are flying one of the

  • Modeling and Simulation Conference Kicks Off

    With the motto "Prepare the Force-Secure the Future", the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference 2011 formally got under way Nov 29th here.  The conference, which promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, industry, academia and various government agencies in pursuit