• Harlem Globetrotters, Slick Willie Shaw, to visit WPAFB

    The Harlem Globetrotters will visit the Prairies Child Youth Complex on December 17, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Their purpose is aimed at sharing their successful educational program for youth called "C.H.E.E.R. for Character."They will share the benefits of character development for youth. The CHEER

  • Tiny MAVs for Hazard Detection

    Air Force Research Laboraotry-sponsored researcher and Harvard University professor Dr. Robert Wood is leading the way to what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force. His basic research is on track to evolve into robotic, insect-scale devices for

  • Adaptive Control for Aero-Optical Compensation

    AIr Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research addressed the Air Force requirement for robust adaptive optics beam control in airborne laser directed energy systems, a capability enabling such systems to maintain optical quality throughout a laser's traverse of its path from

  • Materials Innovation Amplifies Terahertz Power and Performance

    Air Force Research Laboratory materials experts' discovery that single-walled [carbon] nanotubes boost terahertz imaging capabilities resolves a fundamental limitation in the lab's Hazardous Material Identification System. That directed energy system has heretofore generated its terahertz beam via

  • Fuels Researchers Flock to Aquatic Feedstock

    Given that "flocculation" is an essential step in amassing aquatic microalgae for subsequent harvest as biofuel feedstock, a lab-sponsored program at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez is researching methods for efficiently performing this all-important concentrating/partitioning process. The

  • STEM Puts Students in the Driver's "SEAT"

    A cross-directorate collaboration of scientists and engineers is engaging with Dayton, Ohio, high school students as part of a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics endeavor managed by Noble Solutions and sponsored locally by the Air Force Research Laboratory. As the program name

  • HBCU Research Nets Double-or-Nothing Heat Transfer

    Addressing major challenges related to the high-heat-flux thermal management of current and future airborne tactical platforms (especially directed energy weapons), researchers funded through Air Force Research Laboratory's Historically Black Colleges and Universities program developed novel

  • Research Quenches Need for Mixed-Dimensional Coil Modeling

    Motivated by the need for more in-depth study of yttrium barium copper oxide-coated superconducting coil--a technology of substantial value to compact, lightweight power applications of great interest to the Air Force--Florida A&M University researchers created a hybrid, finite element model of

  • HPM Tests Mark Advanced Flight Control Progress

    A multidisciplinary team of Air Force Research Laboratory researchers recently completed a series of high-power microwave tests ultimately aimed at reducing the susceptibility of modern air vehicles to potentially damaging electromagnetic, or radio frequency, sources. Conducted at the US Army's HPM

  • Process Maturation Helps Solar Cells Shine

    By working to mature practices in place for manufacturing high-efficiency, multijunction space solar cells, Air Force Research Laboratory's Manufacturing Technology Division enabled key improvements in the critical performance, mass, and volume of warfighter-specific satellite payloads. Leveraging