• AFRL Successfully Demonstrates Lightweight Modular Support Jammer

    AFRL engineers successfully demonstrated several support jamming techniques at the Naval Air Weapons Center, California. The lightweight modular support jammer (LMSJ) is a scalable-architecture, digitally controlled support jammer based upon digital common modules and highly integrated transmitters

  • AFRL Establishes AMIST for Focused Warhead Development

    AFRL and the Department of Energy's Kansas City Plant are collaborating to provide ordnance designers the initiation tools necessary for developing focused warheads, such as the dual-role munition. These advanced weapons will require an interdisciplinary technical solution that incorporates

  • AFRL Advances Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Research

    AFRL manages and conducts exploratory and advanced development programs to provide power systems and cooling technologies for aircraft, missile, terrestrial, and special applications. AFRL researchers are conducting in-house proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell research to help these fuel cells

  • AFRL Deploys Oil-Filled Switch Technology

    AFRL researchers deployed a novel oil-filled switch technology developed over the last 3 years. This device incorporates advances in switching technology made at the University of Missouri-Columbia and Alpha-Omega Power Technologies. The newly deployed high-voltage switch utilizes the poly-a-olefin

  • AFRL Successfully Demonstrates High-Assurance Security Architecture

    AFRL is working with industry under the High-Assurance Security Architecture for Embedded Systems program to develop and advance the Multiple Independent Levels of Security/Safety (MILS) architecture, an enabling technology offering an affordable near-term solution to building high-assurance systems

  • Successful Scramjet Combustor Testing

    AFRL's Robust Scramjet [supersonic combustion ramjet] program establishes new and improved capability in dual-mode scramjet combustors along three major pillars: scalability, operability, and durability. Working under the Robust Scramjet program, Aerojet (Orange, Virginia) successfully completed the

  • SBIR Company Advances Future Space Computers

    Onboard computers are the primary means of operating satellites that cost millions of dollars to build and launch; once in orbit, however, these computers are not easily repaired if problems arise. Furthermore, space-deployed hardware cannot tolerate data errors, since ordinary microchip performance

  • Revolutionary Rotary Airflow Controller

    The cyclic (on/off) characteristics of pulsed detonation engine (PDE) airflow requirements impose a difficult airflow matching problem for the integration of an unsteady PDE with a high speed limit. Therefore, AFRL engineers developed a revolutionary airflow controller and isolator to (1) control