• AFRL’s Top Civilian Executive Retires

    The executive director for the Air Force Research Laboratory headquartered here retired from federal service Wednesday in a formal ceremony conducted at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. A member of the Senior Executive Service, Les McFawn retired after a 38 years in both the active-duty

  • Medical capacity grows in Zabul Province

    In an area where Taliban attacks and improvised explosive devices are commonplace, a joint U.S. Air Force and Army team continues to build capacity for local civilians to treat injured people here. During a graduation ceremony Jan. 8, five young Afghan men from Zabul Province received certificates

  • Wright-Patt to co-sponsor FIRST LEGO League Ohio State Championship

    Forty-eight teams representing some of the best and brightest students from across the state will compete at the FIRST LEGO® League Ohio State Championship Tournament at the Ervin J. Nutter Center, on the campus of Wright State University, January 12 -13. The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

  • AFRL student researcher named to ESPN Academic All-America Soccer team

    Shauna Stapleton, a student researcher with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate, was recently named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Women's Soccer first team. Ms. Stapleton, a senior at Purdue University majoring in entomology, works as a laboratory

  • AFRL Investments Provide High-Tech Cargo Delivery System

    Years of basic research investments have paid off in the successful transition of Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) technology. Conceived and funded by AFRL and the Army, the high-tech cargo delivery system's first deployment to a combat zone was in Afghanistan. JPADS uses the same Global

  • AFRL Designs and Constructs Double-Deck Aircraft Mockup for Fire Research

    AFRL collaborated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to design, fabricate, and install a 60 ft section mockup of a double-deck aircraft, facilitating new large aircraft (NLA) fire research that is unachievable with smaller-scale mockups. Both agencies gain the capability to conduct

  • AFRL Provides Research Funding for Signal Processing Expert

    AFRL-funded scientist Dr. Wil Myrick is conducting research that could ultimately provide the military with advanced remote sensing capabilities. Dr. Myrick is investigating the use of software-defined radio (SDR) technology in flexible adaptive signal processing architectures. First receiving AFRL

  • AFRL Supports Research of Materials for Use in Extreme Environments

    AFRL supports leading-edge scientific research that precipitates new performance capabilities for materials used in extreme environments--materials having the potential to impact the future of hypersonics. AFRL-funded researchers are making significant headway in advancing this critical area of

  • AFRL Funds Research for High-Power Airborne Laser Systems

    AFRL is funding research at the University of Notre Dame to advance the knowledge of near-field aero-optic deviations and their effect on directed energy. A team at the university is researching the effect of aero-optics and its implication to laser communication applications and other optical