Human Performance Wing developing analysis tool that can track anomalous behavior

The Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, Anticipate and Influence Behavior Division, Behavior Modeling Branch, or 711 HPW/RHXB, is developing an analysis tool that will help the military discover and track unusual behavior in a city setting to help avert criminal or dangerous

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

WPAFB making way for new IT complex

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

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

Lt Col Mark Duffy of USAF School of Aerospace Medicine Receives the 2010 James H. Nakano Citation for the Article "Zika Virus Outbreak on Yap Island, Federated States of Micronesia"

Lieutenant Colonel Mark Duffy, operational support section chief, Epidemiology Consult Service with the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine was awarded the James H. Nakano Citation at an awards ceremony on Aug. 24 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta,

Brigadier General Tchoua, The Deputy Director of Military Health Services in Gabon, Africa Visits the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine

Brigadier General Romain Rodrigues Tchoua, the deputy director of military health service, in Gabon, Africa, visited and toured the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks City-Base, TX on Aug. 26. During the visit  General Tchoua,  Master Corporal Ghislaine Ntsame Obame, 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