• AFRL Coating Makes Publication's Top 100 Technologies List

    AFRL, in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), Boeing Phantom Works, Deft Coatings, and Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC), developed an environmentally safe corrosion-inhibiting coating for aluminum aircraft surfaces and structures. R&D Magazine subsequently named this

  • AFRL Develops Remote Auxiliarary Power System

    At the request of Air Force Special Operations Command's Special Tactics Squadron, AFRL engineers addressed an urgent operational need to solve the problem of recharging batteries in forward locations. The resulting remote auxiliary power system (RAPS) allows military forces to harvest power from

  • AFRL Conducts New Air Force Aircrew Anthropometry Study

    The last time the Air Force (AF) conducted a large-scale anthropometric (human body measurement) survey of its pilots was 1967. Countless changes have occurred since then, one of which being the average size and shape of the human body. The critical significance of this evolution is evident in

  • University Researchers Use Lab-Developed Wind Tunnel for Hypersonic Testing

    AFRL funded the research that ultimately produced the world's only quiet hypersonic wind tunnel. Purdue University researchers are now using this unique resource to test the performance of vehicles traveling at hypersonic speeds (i.e., approximately 4,000 mph). The research team, led by Purdue's Dr.

  • Mathematician Helps Scientists' Efforts to Observe New Worlds

    Dr. Oscar Bruno, an AFRL-funded mathematician, is applying his methodologies to a project aimed at discovering new planets. Dr. Oscar Bruno researches numerical methods and develops the resulting software that predicts the interaction of electromagnetic waves, such as radar and light, with

  • Engineers prepare to break ground for BRAC

    The $330 million facility construction effort required to bring multiple missions to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure is under way. On Sept. 26, 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract for the first step - a fiscal year 2007

  • New STEM school could benefit Air Force mission

    When the Ohio Board of Regents awarded $600,000 in state funds Feb. 15 to Dayton to develop a special school aimed at educating tomorrow's high-tech workers, the Air Force Research Laboratory was one step closer to being a direct beneficiary of the schools' graduates. Students attending the new STEM

  • Air Force contracting executive to lead new human performance wing

    Air Force officials announced today that Thomas S. Wells, a member of the federal Senior Executive Service, will lead the new 711th Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Wells comes to the new wing after serving first as deputy director, then director, of contracting at