• 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

  • Airmen based in Ohio should file Ohio State taxes

    This year several Airmen have received "delinquent" notices from the state of Ohio advising them they failed to pay Ohio state taxes in past years. These individuals hadn't filed taxes with the state of Ohio because they claimed a state of residence other than Ohio. Generally, an active-duty

  • AFRL auditory horizon project named DOD Hot Technology winner

    Technology developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory to help keep general aviation pilots flying safely in low-visibility conditions has won a contest that highlights top projects within the Department of Defense laboratory network. Researchers at the AFRL Human Effectiveness Directorate,

  • AFRL Mesa-based researcher wins Myers Award for applied research

    Dr. Winston "Wink" Bennett, principal scientist for training systems and performance assessment at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate, is one of five individuals selected to receive the 2008 M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in the Workplace. Dr. Bennett