• BEYA Honoree Blazes Trails for Others (Diversity)

    Mr. Ed Lee, Air Force Research Laboratory Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions program manager, recently received a Trailblazer Award at the 23rd Annual Black Engineer of the Year Awards Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Global Competitiveness

  • Joint Service/Industry Alliance Jams on JAMMA

    An Air Force Research Laboratory/Army/industry effort successfully addressed unique Air Force Special Operations Forces requirements by overseeing the TAC-V company's development of JAMMA, a Joint All-Terrain Modular Mobility Asset that reigns as the world's only armor-ready, four-passenger, hybrid,

  • ManTech/SBIR Effort Drills Into Time and Cost of JSF Production

    Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory's Manufacturing Technology and Small Business Innovation Research--enabled results, technology supporting affordable, high-rate, and ergonomically sound production practices is transitioning to the Joint Strike Fighter program. The new technology comprises

  • Mini-Thrusters No Small Achievement in Satellite Propulsion

    Based on the in-progress development of miniature electric propulsion systems, or mini-thrusters, small satellites--including CubeSats, the Air Force's latest--may soon perform space maneuvers with greater ease and undertake increasingly formidable tasks, such as searching for planets beyond earth's

  • Base security forces train for the worst

    "On Me"With the simple two word instruction Tech. Sgt. Jeffrey Jones, 88th Security Forces Squadron, went from being a searcher to point man, and three other members making up the diamond formation snapped left, each encountering new roles and responsibilities within the team structure. This was

  • Chilling Results for MURI Effort

    Thanks to Air Force Research Laboratory Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative funding, a team led by University of New Mexico professor Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae created the first solid-state cryocooler capable of airborne and spaceborne sensor application. Also known as optical

  • New Models for Optimizing Mission Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    With funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, engineers at Boston University are working on a theoretical approach to improve automated mission control and decision-making for fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles.While unmanned systems currently rely on the automation of low-level

  • Air Force takes step toward cleaner fuel, energy independence

    Air Force officials, embracing the national priorities of cleaner fuel and energy independence, took a step toward a greener, energy independent future when an A-10C Thunderbolt II here took to the air March 25 fueled with a blend of Hydrotreated Renewable Jet, or HRJ, and JP-8.This first-ever

  • AFRL Commander's Challenge 2009

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Commander's Challenge 2009 concluded with the announcement that Team Wright-Patterson had won the year's event, which hinged on developing a system to monitor mountain passes--the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, for example--for insurgent activity.

  • "RADICAL" Improvements to IED Detection

    The urgency of improvised explosive device threat mitigation for deployed troops warrants an immediate and sweeping response, and an AFRL/Electronic Systems Center program aptly hailed as RADICAL delivers just that. The chief goal of RADICAL--referenced more formally as the Remote-Controlled