• Air Force Marathon Registration to open with one-day only special price

    Registration for the Air Force Marathon will open Jan. 1, 2012 at midnight with a special one-day only price.For Jan. 1 only, the full marathon is $75; half marathon is $60; 10K is $35 and the 5K is $20. "We've offered special pricing on January 1st for the last few years and it has helped get our

  • New Measurement Into Biological Polymer Networks

    The development of a new measurement technology, under a research project funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Science Foundation, is probing the structure of composite and biological materials."Our results have provided some of the first microscopic insights into a

  • New Firefighting System Three Times More Effective Than Previous Method

    Air Force Research Laboratory researchers have developed ultra-high pressure (UHP) firefighting technology that is three times more effective than conventional capability and increases the length of time a firefighting vehicle can remain on scene. UHP technology, compared with conventional methods

  • First Hemispherically Shaped Camera Reduces Distortions

    AFRL-funded researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University have developed the first curvilinear, or hemispherically shaped, camera that reduces optical distortions normally associated with flat-sensor camerasThe camera is built from planar silicon

  • Nanoscale Photonic-Crystal Lasers: 10 Times Faster, 1000 Times Less Energy

    Supercomputers consume super amounts of energy, and there is an ongoing technological solution to reduce that consumption. Funded in part by AFOSR, a Stanford University team unveiled a tiny, highly efficient semiconductor laser that could herald a new era in low-energy data interconnects that

  • Physicists First to Observe Electron Ejected from Atom

    Air Force Research Lab-supported physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, became the first researchers to observe the motion of an

  • Research in Microscale Heat Transfer Will Benefit Military Systems

    A 2-year-old Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative involving the Air Force Research Laboratory, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Brown University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, is making great strides in achieving a fundamental understanding of heat

  • Design, Tools Aim for Accessible Silicon Optical Chips

    In an effort to make it easier to build inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips, which allow computers to move information with light and electricity, a University of Washington research team is developing design tools and using commercial nanofabrication tools. The Air

  • B-2 Spirit featured aircraft for 2012 Marathon

    The B-2 Spirit stealth bomber will be the featured aircraft for the 2012 Air Force Marathon. The iconic batwing shaped aircraft will be prominently displayed on all official Marathon gear, including the highly coveted finisher's medal racers receive after crossing the long 26.2-mile road to the