• Air Force sponsors research to improve antennas for micro air vehicles

    Professor Richard James of the University of Minnesota is an AFOSR-funded scientist who has discovered a systematic approach to nanotechnology based on the concept of objective structures. Dr. James designs new materials that look like carbon nanotubes using innovative and powerful mathematical

  • WPAFB Ghost Hunters episode to air Wednesday

    Ghost Hunters fans will now have a chance to decide for themselves whether one of the Air Force's oldest installations is haunted. Wright-Patterson will go prime time when the base's premiere episode airs Wednesday, April 9 at 9 and 11 p.m. on the Sci-Fi Channel, as part of the all-new fourth season

  • Researchers explore materials degradation in space

    When Space Shuttle Endeavor launched in March, more than 1,000 new materials were onboard to be tested as a part of the sixth Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-6. The Air Force Office of Scientific Research initiated MISSE-6 to gain a theoretical understanding of the

  • Researchers honored for work with self-healing plastics

    Professors Scott White and Nancy Sottos, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have been awarded several recent honors for their breakthrough research in self-healing plastics. In January 2008, they were included in the

  • Researchers honored for work with self-healing plastics

    Professors Scott White and Nancy Sottos, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)-funded scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have been awarded several recent honors for their breakthrough research in self-healing plastics. In January 2008, they were included in the

  • Biofuel research could result in alternative energy source

    Air Force-funded biofuel researchers are investigating ways to produce large quantities of hydrogen gas using photosynthetic microbes, commonly known as algae and cyanobacteria. In large quantities, the hydrogen gas could function as a renewable, cheap and clean energy source for future military

  • AFMC announces top Airmen

    Air Force Materiel Command officials announced their top enlisted members April 2 during a ceremony at the nearby National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. They were chosen from among 40 nominees recommended by leaders in their chain of command and respective centers as the best Airmen. After reviewing

  • AFRL connects warfighters with intuitive battlefield technology

    In the spring of 2007, an Air Force joint tactical combat controller (JTAC) challenged researchers to quickly solve a nagging combat problem--he and his fellow warfighters needed a simple, lightweight, user-friendly cable to transfer target location information from their laser rangefinders to a