• Tiny MAVs May Someday Explore and Detect Environmental Hazards

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored researcher, Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University is leading the way in 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

  • Chief of Staff to participate in the Air Force Marathon 10K

    The Air Force Chief of Staff is putting himself on the starting line during Air Force Marathon events here, joining thousands of others ready to show their dedication to physical fitness.Gen. Norton Schwartz plans to return to the Air Force Marathon for the second year in a row, this time running

  • Portable Laser Backpack Revolutionizes 3D Mapping

    A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has been developed at the University of California, Berkeley, where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of producing fast, automatic and realistic 3D mapping of difficult interior environments.Research leading to the development of the

  • Social media warning: AF officials urge operations security vigilance

    Fraudsters continue to hijack accounts on social networking sites and spread malicious software, FBI officials said. One technique entices users to download an application or view a video that appears to be sent from users' "friends", giving the perception of being legitimate. Once the user responds

  • C-17 conducts flight tests with biofuel

    The Air Force's ongoing alternative fuels certification efforts reached a new milestone Aug. 27 when a C-17 Globemaster III from here flew on all engines using jet fuel blended with a combination of traditional petroleum-based fuel, or JP-8, biofuel derived in part from animal fat, and synthetic

  • AFRL gains High Power Microwave Institute

    As part of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a High-Power Microwave Institute to the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here. High-Power Microwave technology can selectively degrade,

  • MQ-9 Reaper crashes near El Mirage Airfield, California

    An MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft crashed approximately one mile north of El Mirage Airfield, Calif., at 2:45 p.m. (EDT) August 31.The RPA was flying a training mission and launched from Gray Butte Airfield located about 5 miles east of El Mirage. Both airfields are about midway between

  • Chief Scientist describes future technology

    "Humans today are still more capable than machines, but by 2030 that is absolutely not going to be the case anymore," said Dr. Werner Dahm, Air Force Chief Scientist, in describing one of the conclusions he reached during the Air Force's first in-depth look at future technology in more than a