• AFRL Researchers Perform Functionally Graded Material Bending Tests

    AFRL researchers completed quasi-static bending tests of functionally graded titanium/titanium boride test specimens. The twofold purpose of this test effort was to gain a better understanding of the material-structure interactions and to evaluate laboratory testing tools and techniques.

  • AFRL Researchers Test Sense-and-Avoid Technology

    In an effort to improve the safety and expand the reach of unmanned air vehicles (UAV), AFRL scientists conducted a series of Sense-and-Avoid Flight Tests (SAAFT) in Niagara Falls, New York. AFRL established the SAAFT program to demonstrate autonomous collision avoidance capabilities in both

  • AFRL Assists Northrop Grumman With Supersonic Tailless Air Vehicle Tests

    AFRL provided a full-motion flight simulation environment to test candidate control systems for Northrop Grumman's Supersonic Tailless Air Vehicle (STAV) concept. The testing, conducted in the lab's Large-Amplitude Multimode Aerospace Research Simulator (LAMARS), incorporated design improvements

  • AFRL Enhances Diminishing Manufacturing Sources Analysis

    The AFRL-managed Air Force Materiel Command Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) program office recently demonstrated the Web-based Air Force Module's (AFM) value in linking the service to the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) Shared Data Warehouse (SDW). The DMS

  • AFRL Helps Identify Intelligent Communication and Hearing Protection System

    AFRL researchers assisted the US Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF) in identifying an adaptive intelligent communication and hearing protection system designed to enhance military operations and make hostile environments less dangerous for US ground forces. The new, lightweight technology--known as

  • AFRL Demonstrates Unmanned Air Vehicle Target Localization Capability

    The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (Redstone Arsenal, Alabama), designed and tested a system providing precise ground target coordinates via commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) camera and mapping software. The

  • AFRL Enhances Miniature Fragmentation Warhead Design

    AFRL completed a computational analysis effort supporting the design and evaluation of a miniature fragmentation warhead intended to provide warfighters with a lethal and readily deployable weapon system. AFRL engineers first designed and tested the device, which comprises an array of small

  • Fabrication Processes Developed for 3-D Polymeric Photonic Crystals

    As part an AFRL Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I effort, Omega Optics, Inc., and EM Photonics, Inc., successfully developed fabrication processes for constructing three-dimensional (3-D) polymeric photonic crystals. Having now proceeded to SBIR Phase II activities, the researchers

  • 'Volunteer of the Quarter' recognized at museum

    88th Air Base Wing Vice Commander Col. Neal B. McElhannon presented Tipp City resident Christian Cross with the Team Wright-Patt "Volunteer of the Quarter" award for the first quarter of 2007 on May 29 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Cross began volunteering at the museum in

  • AFRL physiologist wins 2007 human factors award

    Dr. James C. Miller, senior research physiologist for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate, Bio-Behavioral Performance Branch  at Brooks City-Base, Texas, received the Henry L. Taylor Founder's Award at the May 14 meeting of the Aerospace Human Factors Association held