• Air Force names two new leaders at AFRL

    Air Force Manpower and personnel officials at the Pentagon announced Nov. 4 a change in leadership for two key organizations within the Air Force Research Laboratory here.Wendell Banks, will succeed Dr. David Jerome as director of AFRL's Sensors Directorate. Mr. Banks is currently AFRL's director

  • Base to conduct controlled burn of Huffman Prairie

    Base Environmental along with Ohio Department of Natural Resources-Division of Forestry will conduct a controlled burn of Huffman Prairie on Tuesday, Nov. 9, weather permitting.The controlled burn is used to maintain and expand existing prairie vegetation as well as prohibit the spread of invasive

  • Nobel Prize Winning Graphene Research Highlights AFOSR-Funded Physicists

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, announced recently the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Professor Andre Geim and Dr. Konstantin Novoselov from the University of Manchester for their 2004 graphene research.Mr. Geim and Dr. Novoselov achieved science's highest

  • Title III Nets Honors for High-Temperature Superconducting Advances

    Having not long ago finished a 5-year effort to establish commercial production capabilities for yttrium barium copper oxide-coated high-temperature superconductor wire--a technology that will significantly increase device energy efficiency for several military and industrial applications--a team

  • Senior Scientific Advisor Earns Fellow Standing

    Mr. Richard McKinley, of the 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, earned Air Force Research Laboratory's 2010 Fellow status in recognition of his substantial contributions in the critical area of bioacoustics--work that has profoundly impacted the fields of noise effects

  • Dr. Winston Bennett Named Among AFRL 2010 Fellows

    Dr. Winston (Wink) Bennett, of the 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate, has achieved Air Force Research Laboratory's 2010 Fellow status for his pioneering work in training, education, and measurement technologies, as well as his efforts in transitioning research results to

  • SiC Manufacturing Advances Aid Next-Generation Engine Technology

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Manufacturing Technology Division and GE Aviation are transitioning state-of-the-art technologies related to the improved manufacture of coated silicon carbide fibers--which, as vital materials in the development and maturation of ceramic matrix composite engine

  • Self-Healing Circuits Boost Performance, Cut Costs

    In supporting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's pursuit of affordable high-performance electronics, Air Forcer Research Laboratory sensors scientists are addressing the tendency of high-frequency integrated circuits to become increasingly smaller and, further, more costly due to