• AFRL Develops Alternatives for Maritime Control

    Researchers from AFRL and Mustang Technology Group, a radar technology company based in Allen, Texas, are providing the Air Force (AF) a simple and affordable approach for attacking seaborne threats. The AFRL/industry team developed a low-cost seeker known as the FALCON EYE, a small, all-weather,

  • AFRL Program Helps Reduce Cost of Focal Plane Arrays

    AFRL researchers completed their involvement in the F-35 Infrared Focal Plane Array (FPA) program, contributing expertise that led to a decrease in cluster defects and the insertion of larger-scale indium (In) antimonide (Sb) wafers into the arrays. The FPA is a significant component of infrared

  • AFRL Program Helps Reduce Cost of Focal Plane Arrays

    AFRL researchers completed their involvement in the F-35 Infrared Focal Plane Array (FPA) program, contributing expertise that led to a decrease in cluster defects and the insertion of larger-scale indium (In) antimonide (Sb) wafers into the arrays. The FPA is a significant component of infrared

  • Physicists Convert Light Pulses Into Matter for Quantum Communications

    AFRL-sponsored physicists at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts) have--for the first time--halted a light pulse and regenerated it in a new location. This research is of consequence to the future of the Air Force because it could provide a powerful technique for fiber-optic communication

  • AFRL Tests Fuze Survivability

    AFRL teamed with Alliant Techsystems (Plymouth, Minnesota) to conduct cannon testing of the Survivable Thermostable Robust Intelligent Fuze (STRIFE). STRIFE is an intelligent fuze capable of making active decisions during penetration. The device can sense voids, layers, and distance traveled; it

  • AFRL Captures Real-Time Video for Ballistic Missile Test

    AFRL engineers tracked and collected data on a successful missile defense intercept test at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), located off the Hawaiian island of Kauai. They fed real-time video to the control center, successfully capturing the intercept of a Scud-type ballistic

  • AFRL Research Team Awarded for International Collaborative Effort

    Members of an AFRL-led cooperative program team that developed the Next-Generation Active Buffeting Induced-Stress Suppression System earned The Technical CooperationProgram (TTCP) Team Achievement Award for their efforts towards creating a vibration suppression system with the potential for

  • AFRL Develops Lighter-Weight Battlefield Power System

    AFRL engineers advanced and deployed a battlefield power system that reduces the carrying loads of Air Force forward battlefield operators by 24%. In the past, operators carried up to 35 lbs of batteries into the field. AFRL developed the lighter-weight power technology over the past 3 years,

  • Education and Training Flight highlights fall class offerings

    The Base Education and Training Flight here is offering a number of fall classes for the Wright-Patt community. Most classes are no-cost and are open to all Wright-Patterson employees, both military and civilian. Class sessions are held at the Education and Training Flight in Bldg. 50, Area B. "Our