• 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

  • AFRL pens agreement with DOE’s Argonne National Lab

    Maj. Gen.Ted Bowlds, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, signed an agreement May 14 with officials from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory that promises to save taxpayer dollars and speed the delivery of technological advances to American military forces. The new

  • AFRL Student Researcher Wins Regional TriBeta Award

    Michael Karns, a Consortium Research Fellows Program student-researcher at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate won first place for best cell/molecular oral presentation at the TriBeta Midwest Regional Conference held April 14 at the University of Dayton Science

  • German filmmaker documents AFRL's high-altitude research pioneers

    German film producer Daniel Muenter wants the world to know the story of Air Force high-altitude research pioneers Captain Joseph W. Kittinger and Lt. Col. (Dr.) John Paul Stapp, who made invaluable contributions to flight science by subjecting themselves to high-risk experiments as mankind pondered

  • Tattoo offers rare heritage aircraft flyovers

    Both heritage and modern aircraft will perform at this year's Air Force Materiel Command's "Freedom's Call" Tattoo as part of its theme, "Heritage to Horizons." "This event will provide the aviation enthusiast a rare opportunity to view a wide selection of World War II era and modern day aircraft