• Advanced Algorithms to Enhance Mobile Autonomous Robots

    Air Force Research Laboratory awarded Imagination Engines, Inc., a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop advanced algorithms for mobile autonomous robots. The Air Force needs creative terrain-sensing and multivalued behavior-fusion algorithms for these robots due to the

  • Collaboration Addresses AFSOC Need for Functional Spotting Charge

    Air Force Special Operations Command turned to Air Force Research Laboratory for assistance in finding a more affordable and efficient training round with an observable impact assessment capability. Faced with a dwindling ammunition inventory but reluctant to consume expensive high explosive

  • Scout Airfield Interdictor Flight Test: Coordinated Rendezvous

    Air Force Research Laboratory researchers completed a successful flight test of the Scout challenge test beds. The test's goal was to direct two test beds to search tactical areas of interest and later attack a stationary target simultaneously. The Scout problem gives guidance researchers an

  • Federal Benefits Open Season Health Fair is Nov. 18

    Base civilian employees can learn more about their health care benefits plan options during a Federal Benefits Open Season Health Fair, Wednesday, Nov. 18 at the Hope Hotel here.This year's event will include will include representatives from the Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Ohio, Government

  • Air Force family's 'Extreme Makeover' to air on Nov. 8

    During this Year of the Air Force Family, one ultimate act of Airmen helping their own will get national attention Nov. 8 when ABC-TV's 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' features a civilian Airman and his new custom-built house. "We are having lots of fun in the new house and life has been so much

  • Tops In Blue 2009 to perform at Ervin J. Nutter Center

    The U.S. Air Force's Tops In Blue 2009 will perform for its 5th time at the Ervin J. Nutter Center, Wednesday, Nov. 25, at 6:00 p.m. The event will offer a free night of family entertainment that is open to the public. This year's theme "To Dream" presents an "extravaganza of sight and sound, of

  • Carbon Nanostructures Research May Prompt Revolutionary Devices

    Cornell University's Dr. Jiwoong Park conducts Air Force Research Laboratory-sponsored basic research of carbon nanostructures, which may one day be used in Air Force electronic, thermal, mechanical, and sensing devices. His research team is examining single molecules, nanocrystals, nanowires,

  • AFRL Funding Propels Advances in Eco-Friendly Rocket Fuel

    A collaborative effort between Air Force Research Laboratory, NASA and academia resulted in the successful launch of a small rocket using a safe, environmentally friendly propellant. The substance, comprising aluminum powder and ice, thus known as ALICE, is suitable both for short flights in earth's

  • AFRL DIMOnstrates Dedication to World-Class Health Education

    The Defense Institute for Medical Operations -- a unit of the Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing, US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine--demonstrated its commitment to high-quality international medical training by participating in Operation SOUTHERN PARTNER, a 12th Air