• Laser Diodes Demonstrated as IR Beacon

    Ever attuned to the warfighter need for enhanced battlefield awareness and lowered risk of friendly fire and fratricide, Air Force Research Laboratory scientists demonstrated the viable use of infrared laser diodes as an Identification Friend or Foe and Positive Identification--IFFPID--beacon for

  • Materials and Manufacturing Know-How Bests Failed Breakers

    Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory's expertise in evaluating and resolving a potentially costly problem related to KC-135 circuit breaker failure, a novel routine for checking--and, as necessary, replacing--these critical components is now in place. Affecting nearly 400 aircraft, the

  • ManTech Tackles Rapid Response NFL-Style

    A successful flight test conducted by Boeing and the Air Force Research Laboratory proved the feasibility of designing, developing, and manufacturing--in a dramatically streamlined process spanning less than 4 weeks--an unmanned air vehicle capable of carrying a defined payload. The solid test

  • New Focus on Space Object Identification

    A just-released Air Force Research Laboratory software update will significantly aid the identification of space objects. Improvements to Physically Constrained Iterative Deconvolution  software promise image processing results at resolutions considerably higher than previous products were able to

  • Say "HALO" to Hologram-Enhanced Adaptive Optics

    Lab-sponsored research of a novel adaptive optics capability may help transform ordinary imaging software into computer-free electronics enabling unmanned aerial vehicles, high-energy lasers, and free-space optical communications systems to run faster and more efficiently than ever before. The

  • IDCAST Partners With Industry for Third Frontier Effort

    Thanks to $906,000 in support to be supplied by the State of Ohio's Third Frontier Commission over a 2-year period, a collaborative effort to develop sensor technology enabling continuous, near-real-time video monitoring of city-sized areas for urban law enforcement and security applications is now

  • Pursuing Multisensor GUI Advances

    Air Force Research Laboratory sensors scientists have developed a graphical user interface capable of assimilating wide-area motion imagery, ground-based sensor data, and narrow-field-of-view sensor overlays for review in one composite display composed of multisensor imagery and associated metadata.

  • Risk Model for High-Altitude Missions Added to NATOPS

    An important Air Force Research Laboratory-developed model used by flight mission planners, operators, pilots, and commanders to gauge the risks of altitude decompression sickness in a given situation is now part of the Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization program. Developed

  • Researchers Compute the Way to Better Resource Exploitation (Diversity)

    Supporting the Air Force's commitment to make the best possible use of aircraft, fuel, and personnel, two Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored researchers at Colorado State University are working to solve computationally difficult problems related to logistics planning, vehicle routing, resource

  • Optimizing UAV Mission Control

    Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored engineers at Boston University are pursuing a theoretical approach to unmanned aerial vehicle fleet automation that would save Air Force pilots substantial effort by enabling UAVs to adapt more rapidly in response to unforeseen events and, ultimately, to