• AF-Funded Engineer Honored for a Lifetime of Scientific Achievements

    After decades of research at the University of Michigan in areas ranging from materials to circuits, 2008 has been an especially noteworthy year for Dr. Pallab Bhattacharya, who earned numerous accolades from the engineering community. This year three well-known organizations recognized Dr.

  • USAF Marathon breaks attendance record as weekend events arrive

    As the 12th annual U.S. Air Force Marathon approaches, the event already has surpassed last year's attendance record and is poised to exceed the 7,000 mark. Total registration stood at more than 6,900 early Wednesday afternoon. The 2007 marathon drew more than 6,700 total participants for all

  • Advances in Holographic Impedance Surfaces for Antennas

    Air Force-funded researchers at HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California are working on holographic impedance surfaces for antennas, which will give aircraft improved aerodynamics. "We are using a design technique that is similar to how people make holograms," said Dr. Daniel F. Sievenpiper, lead

  • Researchers compress light to advance optical communications

    Air Force Office of Scientific Research-funded scientists at the University of California at Berkeley fabricated a new type of metamaterial that bends light backwards, in a way that does not exist in nature. Such metamaterial compresses light into tighter spaces and improves optical communication,

  • Acclaimed scientist named AFRL Fellow

    Dr. James G. Grote, award-winning scientist and a principal electronics research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, has been named a 2008 Fellow of AFRL for outstanding contributions to the Air Force and the Department of Defense. Dr. Grote has worked at AFRL for 30 years and is an

  • AFRL deploys 500 materials specimens aboard International Space Station

    The Air Force Research Laboratory recently partnered with NASA to conduct materials experiments aboard the International Space Station. The Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing and Propulsion Directorates, working with NASA, the Air Force Academy, Sandia National Laboratories, U. S. Naval

  • Big storm can't stop USAF Marathon

    Despite widespread power outages and massive amounts of debris from the remnants of Hurricane Ike Sept. 14, Wright-Patterson AFB is ready for the 12th annual United States Air Force Marathon and related activities Thursday, Friday and Saturday. But base officials say participants should be aware

  • Base helps dialysis center provide ‘life-sustaining’ treatment

    For several hundred people in the Miami Valley, the sustained power outage caused by the recent wind storm left them facing stark circumstances - either they find the treatment they need or die. "We call dialysis a life-sustaining treatment, because without it the patient will die," said Mike

  • Wind storm claims information for base employees

    The base legal office here has good news for Airmen and base federal civilian employees who suffered damage to personal property resulting from the Sept. 14 wind storm. The Military Personnel and Civilian Employees Claims Act may be able to help. The act provides protection for extraordinary acts of