• Defense forum highlights national need for scientists, engineers

    The Air Force and the United States forecast a serious shortage of scientists and engineers. That assessment was made by Joe Sciabica, executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, during a Regional Defense Forum hosted by the Dayton Business Journal and Dayton Development Coalition May 6

  • Air Force Team Wins FAA 2007 Excellence in Aviation Research Award

    The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) selected the US Air Force B-52 Aircraft Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) Fuels Research Team as a recipient of the 2007 Excellence in Aviation Research Award. The team includes primary members from AFRL; Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center; Air Force Flight Test Center;

  • Prototype Decision Support System Improves Situational Awareness

    Prompted by an Air Force request for improved situational awareness, AFRL initiated development of the Joint Situational Awareness & Response System (JSARS). The specific aim of this Core Process-3 effort was to provide the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) with a prototype decision support

  • AFRL and GNC to Study Effects of Whey Protein on Warfighter Performance

    Researchers from AFRL and General Nutrition Centers (GNC), Inc., kicked off a unified effort to determine whether a specialized form of whey protein--a pure, natural, high-quality protein derived from cow's milk--can aid warfighter strength and alertness during fatigue-inducing missions. This joint

  • AFRL Connects Warfighters With Intuitive Battlefield Technology

    AFRL engineers responded quickly to an Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) challenge to solve a nagging combat problem related to directing air strikes against enemy positions. They developed and delivered a simple, lightweight, user-friendly cable enabling the transfer of critical

  • Researchers Explore Materials Degradation in Space

    When Space Shuttle Endeavor launched in March 2008, it carried aboard more than 1,000 new materials for testing as part of the sixth Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-6. AFRL initiated MISSE-6 to gain a theoretical understanding of the mechanisms involved in materials

  • High Stare Program Achieves Preliminary Design Review Milestone

    High Stare is an AFRL program aimed at creating the larger infrared sensors that future missile warning systems will require. Accordingly, the 5-year effort is specifically focused on developing high-performance, large-format, shortwave-infrared focal plane arrays. Industry partners Teledyne Imaging

  • BRAC construction progress brings new road detours to Area B

    As construction continues to progress on the infrastructure military construction project, base civil engineers must continue with road closures and modify several detour routes in Area B here. Utilities are being upgraded in Area B to support new 711th Human Performance Wing facilities to be

  • High-Altitude Return Vehicle Completes Phase II Tests

    The AFRL-sponsored Phillips Technology Institute (PTI) successfully completed Phase II of a three-phase test plan for the High-Altitude Return Vehicle (HARV). Phase II employed a balloon-launched, tactical operations payload in a small, recoverable unmanned air vehicle (UAV). Objectives included

  • Twofold Improvement of System's Vibration Isolation Capacity

    AFRL's TacSat-2 tactical satellite successfully completed the unlock sequence for the Miniature Vibration Isolation System-II (MVIS-II), prompting immediate improvement of on-orbit passive vibration isolation between satellite bus and payload. Specifically, MVIS-II now demonstrates twice its