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  • AFRL DEVELOPS WASSAR TO DETECT MOBILE TARGETS

    AFRL is developing state-of-the-art weaponry that users can launch into the vicinity of mobile targets to autonomously find and defeat them. This capability provides increased survivability, multiple kills per pass, and minimal pilot workload. Since there is an inherent delay between observing a target and subsequently launching a weapon, users
  • AFRL TRANSITIONS HYPERSPECTRAL EXPLOITATION TECHNOLOGY TO THE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

    Researchers from AFRL and SRA International, Inc., developed Visual Checklist--a software program that provides process standardization, simple process documentation, decision support, and repeatable analyses, increasing both the productivity and the target identification accuracy of hyperspectral analysts. The Visual Checklist tool has aided the
  • AFRL DEMONSTRATES TACTICAL SOLID-STATE LASER WEAPON TECHNOLOGY

    A team of engineers from AFRL and Northrop Grumman Space Technology (NGST), of Redondo Beach, California, demonstrated a solid-state (electric) laser. This research effort addressed the laser device output for high-power solid-state laser (HPSSL) technologies, which have the potential to meet the performance, efficiency, and weight/volume
  • AFRL COMPLETES SUBSONIC SWEPT-WING LAMINAR FLOW FLIGHT TEST

    Turbulent airflow over an air vehicle wing surface increases airfoil drag and inhibits efficient flight. In an effort to reduce this problem, AFRL researchers completed a subsonic swept-wing laminar flow flight test (SWIFT) to investigate spanwise periodic discrete roughness element (DRE) technology for maintaining wing laminar flow. DREs are
  • AFRL COMPLETES SIX-YEAR SPACE MISSION TO MONITOR RADIATION ENVIRONMENT

    (CEASE) recently completed a 6-year mission in low earth orbit, during which it monitored and mapped the near-earth radiation environment and provided real-time space environment hazard warnings to satellite operators. AFRL sponsored the June 2000 launch of CEASE aboard the Space and Missile Systems Center, Space Development and Test Wing,
  • AFRL DEVELOPS NEXT-GENERATION EFFECTS-BASED DECISION AIDS

    AFRL engineers working under the Cyber Crew Interface and Development program developed and demonstrated prototypes for next-generation effects-based decision aids and warfighter-tailored information visualizations that support the information warfare (IW) planning cycle. Powerful decision support system tools and information management
  • AFRL-LED UNIVERSITY COMPETITION PROVIDES INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR THE SMALL-SATELLITE COMMUNITY

    Through AFRL's University Nanosat program, a student-built spacecraft made its first flight into orbit aboard a Boeing Delta IV heavy demonstration launch vehicle. The objectives of the program's funded projects are to complete small satellite (i.e., nanosat) design, fabrication, and functional testing; foster research to enable nanosat
  • AFRL COMPLETES 10-YEAR DEPLOYABLE OPTICAL TELESCOPE PROGRAM

    AFRL scientists completed their final task of phasing multiple large mirror segments for the laboratory's Deployable Optical Telescope (DOT) system. The DOT ground demonstration enables space-based imaging apertures larger than launch vehicle fairing sizes through multiple-segment telescope phasing. The AFRL Ultralightweight Imaging Technologies
  • AFRL Delivers Linerless Composite Tanks for Nanosat-3

    The University of Texas developed the FASTRAC [formation-autonomy spacecraft with thrust, relative navigation, attitude, and cross-link] nanosatellite (Nanosat-3) to demonstrate technologies that enable formation flying. The Nanosat program entails an annual competition amongst US universities to develop, fabricate, and functionally test small
  • AFRL's Covert Wireless Networking Technology Showcased at USSOCOM

    AFRL showcased its covert wireless networking technology to representatives from US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), Air Force Special Operations Command, and the US Navy and Army. As part of the lab's USSOCOM-sponsored program, Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) integrated its MobileRoute® mobile ad hoc networking software into Thales
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