• DoD’S newest supercomputer enables powerful innovation for users

    Staying on the cutting edge of technology isn't just a slogan at the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center here. With the addition of an SGI® Altix® 4700 computer, the ASC MSRC will house one of the Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program's largest

  • Study targets improved command and control network strength, availability

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here, in cooperation with Binghamton University, recently began funding a new research project targeted at improving the strength and availability of command and control networks. The team of Dr. N. Eva Wu, professor, department of Electrical and Computer

  • Light carbon-fiber structure protects heavy space cargo

    The successful performance of the TacSat-2 micro satellite in December delivered on the expectations of scientists serving here, who established the foundation for this project almost 13 years ago.Known as the Advanced Grid-Stiffened Composite Payload Fairing, the structure, 20 feet long and 5 feet

  • Magic Number 39 for Air Force Physics and Electronics Research Director

    It's not uncommon for people who join the Defense Department to offer 20 years of service to the nation and then call it a career. Dr. Forrest "Jack" Agee would probably classify 20 years as "a good start." Agee is the director of physics and electronics research, Air Force Office of Scientific

  • Air Force Provides Presence at 2006 Naval Science & Technology Conference

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently exhibited at the 2006 Naval Science & Technology Partnership Conference held recently in Washington, D.C. This was the inaugural year for the 2006 Naval S&T Partnership Conference, which replaced the annual Naval-Industry R&D Partnership

  • AFRL participates in Supersonic Tailless Air Vehicle testing

    The Air Force Research Laboratory recently provided a full-motion flight simulation environment to test candidate control systems for Northrop Grumman's Supersonic Tailless Air Vehicle concept. The testing, conducted in AFRL's Large Amplitude Multi-mode Aerospace Research Simulator incorporated

  • Numerical simulations Hoped to One Day Cut Expensive Flight Test Costs

    An Arizona State University scientist, together with colleagues from Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Cobalt Solutions and funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research here, is working on computer simulations hoped to one day save precious defense dollars used for flight experiments and