• AFRL’s Munitions Directorate Stands Up New, Unique Capability

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Munitions Directorate is standing up a brand new capability, the High Pressure Particulate Physics (HP3) Facility, to enhance the role of science and technology in smart munitions development. This capability will include a 60-mm smooth bore gun, complemented with

  • AFMC wins Marathon MAJCOM Challenge

    Air Force Materiel Command was announced as the winner of the 2011 Air Force Marathon MAJCOM Challenge recently at CORONA Fall. This was the fifth year for the challenge, which uses a point system to evaluate both participation and performance from each major command. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.

  • Engineering Methodology Designed to Monitor Software Security

    Computer Measurement Laboratory, Inc. (CML) designed an engineering methodology for software process control developed around an 8-Lane PCI Express (PCIe) card, which is the initial release of an extensive family of software process control systems. Through use of the CML Attack Recognition

  • Speed Agile Transport Vehicle Concept Undergoes Critical Testing

    AFRL researchers are embarking upon a critical set of experiments designed to test a new Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) transport vehicle concept. During this set of experiments, a 23 percent scale model vehicle is being tested in the Arnold Engineering and Development Center's (AEDC) National

  • AFRL Engineer Identifies, Solves Problem with Minuteman III Support

    An engineer from the Air Force Research Laboratory identified the cause of damage to Minuteman III re-entry vehicle support equipment, assessed the damage, and identified novel solutions to allow the command to quickly reduce mishap cost estimates and mitigate future incidents. He developed and

  • Proactive Response to Recent Data Breach Announced

    The Department of Defense announced today that the TRICARE® Management Activity (TMA) has directed Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to provide one year of credit monitoring and restoration services to patients who express concern about their credit as a result of a data breach that

  • Micro-Cavity Arrays: Lighting the Way to the Future

    It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids--and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be precise, a plasma is an ionized gas; thus, a subset of the big three. But this subset has coexisted