• 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

  • Symposium presents case study in saving lives

    "History has favored those that embraced technology ahead of their adversaries," said Gen. Donald Hoffman, Air Force Materiel Command commander in opening the Air Force Association's Technology Symposium August 26 in the Hope Hotel. "It's not just the weapons you produce, but how you sustain them."A

  • High-Strength, Conductive Adhesives a Sticky Proposition

    Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research resourcefulness is behind new adhesives promising increased performance and substantial cost savings for a wide variety of Air Force and Department of Defense air and space platforms. Specifically, the SBIR Phase II work--performed by

  • New Materials Technology a Coat of a Different Color

    Working under an Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract, Conductive Composites Company, LLC, produced new polymer coatings novel in their capacity to provide--via single-material solution--both the conductivity needed for effective electromagnetic

  • Nanolithography Nets Biopolymer EO Device Improvements

    Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory and the University of Arizona collaborated to demonstrate the first-ever fabrication of DNA biopolymer nanostructures via nanoimprint lithography, a technology of merit for low-cost, portable (in-field) production of chemical and optical sensors,

  • Micro AVIARI, Big Results

    In a May 2010 ribbon-cutting ceremony, the Air Force Research Laboratory launched the Micro Air Vehicle Integration and Application Research Institute, or µAVIARI, Indoor Flight Test Laboratory, the new $1.5 million facility dedicated to the advancement of Micro Air Vehicle technologies.The Indoor

  • Enlightened Treatment of Battlefield Injuries

    A new, light-activated nanosuture technology known as photochemical tissue bonding may soon facilitate more effective treatment of traumatic battlefield injuries sustained by Airmen. Developed as a result of research managed by Air Force Research Laboratory and funded by the Office of the Secretary