• Afghans complete advanced medical training

    Less than a month after a basic Emergency Medical Technician training class graduated here, seven more Afghan men entered the medical career field after graduating from a nursing school program facilitated by the joint Air Force and Army Provincial Reconstruction Team here. The 12-month training

  • AFRL engineers support mobile inspection system evaluation

    Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineers traveled to Alaska to help evaluate a system designed to reduce the danger military personnel face while performing under-vehicle searches for explosives."This system helps ensure the safety of military personnel by

  • AFRL coating named one of 100 most significant technologies

    An environmentally safe corrosion control coating for aluminum aircraft surfaces and structures developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, in conjunction with the University of Missouri-Rolla, Boeing Phantom Works, Deft Coatings and Warner-Robins Air

  • AFRL develops lightweight next generation airfield matting system

    Engineers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, working with Webcore Technologies, Inc., Dayton, Ohio, have made significant advancements developing a super-strong, lightweight composite airfield matting that speeds-up forward aircraft deployments, expands

  • AFRL Develops Friend-Versus-Foe Identification System

    AFRL researchers developed a technology that helps warfighters distinguish friendly forces from adversaries during combat exercises. The lab teamed with Lumitex, Inc., to create and field the Target Recognition Operator Notification system, which has the potential to save lives and increase combat

  • Opportune Landing Site Testing Proves Successful

    The AFRL-managed Opportune Landing Site (OLS) program recently conducted two successful landing site soil tests. Boeing and the US Army's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) jointly developed the OLS software, which uses satellite imagery, digital terrain elevation data, and Air

  • Engineers Test Actively Cooled CMC Panels for Rocket and Scramjet Engines

    AFRL engineers, under an Integrated High-Payoff Rocket Propulsion Technology (IHPRPT) contract with Teledyne Scientific Company (Thousand Oaks, California), completed environmental testing on actively cooled ceramic matrix composite (CMC) panels. The panels tested extremely well in both rocket rigs

  • Researchers Create Family of Composite Materials

    AFRL-funded researchers have constructed an entirely new class of materials that could potentially aid Air Force (AF) missions. Dr. David Avnir, head of the Institute of Chemistry at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, led the scientists whose initial research yielded this surprising outcome.

  • AFRL partners with Kettering Health Network on human performance research

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate is joining the Kettering Health Network on a quest to learn more about the relationship between human stress and fatigue, and to determine how to improve human performance in stressful situations. Officials announced the unique

  • AFRL's CAESAR researchers win 2008 Federal Laboratory Consortium award

    The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) has selected the Civilian American and European Surface Anthropometry Resource (CAESAR™) project conducted at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate as winner of a 2008 Award for Excellence in Technology