• Student-built satellite prepared for mission fast track

    Approximately 18 months after edging out 12 other college teams in the Nanosat-3 competition, The University of Texas at Austin's winning structure arrived at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., in June for integration and testing prior to

  • AFRL awards ‘MAJIIC’ research contract

    The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate awarded a $4,840,528 contract to Raytheon Systems Co. of State College, Pa., Nov. 16. The 22-month agreement, "Distributed Common Ground Station Coalition Releasable Enclave," will provide technology that uses MAJIIC -- which stands for

  • Multi-national agreement to advance high-speed flight

    The U.S. Air Force and Australian Department of Defence signed a multi-national research partnership Nov. 10 in Canberra, Australia, which will explore and develop fundamental hypersonic technologies, and experimental methodologies that could enable the next generation of weapon systems. The $54

  • Micro Air Vehicles fill skies over Eglin range

    Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs, took to the skies over Eglin ranges during the second annual U.S.-European Competition and workshop, known as MAV-06, held Oct. 30-Nov. 2. The event was hosted jointly by the Emerald Coast Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and the Air

  • AFRL tests helped define new rescue helicopter

    Tests conducted in hurricane-force winds by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Human Effectiveness Directorate helped the Air Force define its next-generation combat search-and-rescue helicopter. Test data showed that pararescuemen--known as PJs from their earlier designation as para-jumpers--can

  • Active Aeroelastic Wing flight research vehicle receives X-53 designation

    Air Force Research Laboratory researchers recently received word that the Active Aeroelastic Wing (AAW) flight demonstrator has been assigned the Mission Design Series number X-53. The designation makes it the first successful X plane initiated within the Air Vehicles Directorate since the X-24

  • Four more F-16s to be delivered to Poland

    Four more F-16s are scheduled to arrive in Poland Dec. 14 as part of a second wave of a 48-aircraft delivery and a $3.8 billion program executed by Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Security Assistance Center here. The F-16 deliveries are part of the Poland Peace Sky Program, a Foreign

  • AFOSR underwrites Indian workshop

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has agreed to underwrite an information assurance workshop planned by the Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate Jan. 12, 2007, in Bangalore, India. AFOSR's Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), with an initiative to

  • Air Force launches Young Investigators Research Program

    The Air Force Office of Scientific Research here Oct. 2 announced it will award approximately $6.3 million in grants to 21 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's new Young Investigator Research Program. The program is open to scientists and

  • AFRL awards $9.5 million contract for information security research

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate has awarded a $9,513,756 contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. of San Diego, Calif., for research to enhance computer network security. The three-year agreement is a follow-on to an award made in April 2003 to Orincon Information Assurance of