• 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

  • Columbus man loses 120 pounds to join Air Force

    For as long as he can remember, Daniel Kuertz said he has admired the uniformed Airmen in his community of Columbus, Ohio. As he grew into a young man, Kuertz said joining the Air Force was a logical conclusion, considering many people in his family served in the military, including his father, Greg

  • AFOSR Continues History of Success with NDSEG Fellowship Program

    As part of the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) prepares for the 2008 application review meeting, which will take place February 15-17 in Arlington, Va. NDSEG is a Department of Defense (DoD) fellowship program