• Band of Flight honors Korean War heroes with music at Tattoo

    The United States Air Force Band of Flight will join many other organizations here June 25 as it pays tribute to military heroes, tactics and technology at Air Force Materiel Command Freedom's Call Tattoo 2010. The theme of this year's Tattoo is 'Reflections on 60 Years' and will commemorate and

  • Two image collects released by Tactical Satellite-3 demonstration program

    Air Force officials have released two image collects obtained by the Tactical Satellite-3's primary payload, the Advanced Responsive Tactically-Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer, during the experimental demonstration's 13-month mission.One image featuring the Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, and the

  • MUPI Conference Reception Features Keynote on AFRL Opportunities (Diversity)

    Mr. Ed Lee, who manages Air Force Research Laboratory's Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program, was recently the featured speaker at the opening reception for the 2010 Member University Professional Institute Conference: "HBCUs and Beyond, Cultivating Leaders for

  • Optical Societies Honor AFRL Engineer

    Dr. James G. Grote, a principal electronics research engineer at Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, earned Fellow status both from the Optical Society of America and from the European Optical Society, where he also now holds the distinction as being the first

  • Aerospace Castings Inspection Enters the Digital Age

    In a move heralding sizable savings of both money and time for the aerospace castings industry--and ultimately, the military--a government/industry collaboration is introducing digital radiography as a viable method for inspecting strategic and complex aerospace castings in accordance with DoD

  • Advanced Composites Office "HAMs" It Up

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Air Force Advanced Composites Office (ACO), located at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, recently transitioned to Ogden Air Logistics Center a hot air module  addressing problematic elevated-temperature bonded repairs, which are especially difficult for depot crews working

  • SBIR Technologies Promise Power and Performance for

    Technologies newly demonstrated by Air Force Research Laboratory industry partner PC Krause and Associates, Inc., could significantly impact the electrical power systems of the Joint Strike Fighter and future More Electric Aircraft . The milestone success occurred during a recent Integrated Vehicle

  • Successful Combined-Cycle Integrated Inlet Testing

    Air Force Research Laboratory propulsion engineers completed a series of successful experiments demonstrating industry partner Aerojet's combined-cycle integrated inlet, an enabling technology for the integrated turbine-based combined-cycle engines that will ultimately advance hypersonic cruise and

  • Axing the Competition

    Air Force Research Laboratory's Battle-Axe Ordnance program, which works to enhance the lethality of multimode ordnance packages, completed a successful test series for two integrated warheads. Supporting the lab's premiere micro munitions, the Battle-Axe warhead will increase the capacity of