• AETC civic leaders experience Wright-Patterson

    Twenty one civic leaders from across the country along with the commander of Air Education and Training Command, Gen. Stephen Lorenz traveled here Sept. 7-9 to get a firsthand look at the many diverse and critical missions vital to the Air Force. The civic leader group included men and women from a

  • ESP Adds New Dimension to Engine Health Prediction

    Air Force Research 's transition of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-developed system that calculates turbine engine component damage and facilitates accurate predictions of future engine health will cut costs and improve operational readiness and safety. Newly transitioned to

  • Lab Supplies "RX" for Carbon Nanotube Growth

    The Air Force Research Laboratory headed a research team internationally recognized for its groundbreaking discovery of chemical vapor deposition-based growth mechanisms for single-wall carbon nanotubes, which are key elements for an ever-increasing number of important technical applications. The

  • Eco-Friendly Fuel Cells the "Thermopower Wave" of the Future (Diversity)

    Funded jointly by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Science Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers are exploring an exciting new technology of interest to the Air Force based on its potential for converting chemical energy to fuel cells for use in micro

  • Tip-to-Tail M&S ReINVENTs the Future of Aircraft Energy Optimization

    As part of Air Force Research Laboratory's Integrated Vehicle and Energy Technology initiative, propulsion scientists demonstrated the first-ever practical application of aircraft tip-to-tail integrated thermal modeling and simulation. The tip-to-tail M&S approach enables researchers to understand

  • ManTech Leads DMS&T Pursuit of Better Cost Modeling Method

    The Office of the Secretary of Defense's Defense-Wide Manufacturing Science and Technology program, in partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Manufacturing Technology Division, managed the development of the Cost Modeling for Enterprise Transformation tool, which incorporates

  • Aerospace Parts Machining Gains an "AdvantEdge"

    While advances in the high-speed machining of aluminum materials have undeniably reduced the cost of aerospace structures, a recent breakthrough in the HSM of titanium (Ti) is likely to save the aerospace industry--and consequently, the Department of Defense--millions of dollars annually. Under

  • MURI in Clear View of Secure Cloud Computing (Diversity)

    With the help of Air Force Research Laboratory Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative funding, scientists at the University of Texas at Dallas are exploring solutions for maintaining privacy in Web-based computing environments known as clouds, wherein all necessary resources are offered on