• DoDIIS Trusted Workstation Version 3.2 Installed at Multiple Sites

    AFRL installed Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Trusted Workstation (DTW) version 3.2 at multiple sites: the Multinational Force (Baghdad, Iraq); US Transportation Command (Scott Air Force Base, Illinois); Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (Quantico, Virginia); Office

  • AFRL Successfully Tests COUNTER Project

    As part of the Cooperative Operations in Urban Terrain (COUNTER) project, AFRL scientists used unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to conduct flight tests designed to provide special operations forces with situational awareness in an urban environment. Small urban targets are harder to detect from high

  • AFRL Develops Superior Approach for Synthesizing Energetic Ionic Liquids

    AFRL propulsion experts Dr. Suresh Suri and Mr. Jacob Marcischak developed a superior methodology for the synthesis of nitrate-derived ionic liquids. The pair successfully demonstrated their approach using imidazolium salts with the new agent. Nitrate-derived ionic liquids could potentially replace

  • Manufacturing Technology Program Reduces B-2 Bomber Fleet Maintenance Time

    The B-2 Systems Group initiated a major effort to improve the B-2 fleet mission capability (MC) rate. This effort involved the removal of the tape that covers access panel gaps and fasteners, followed by the replacement of the tape with a material known as alternate high-frequency material (AHFM).

  • 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

  • AFRL Aids Memphis Belle Restoration Effort

    Second Lieutenant Grant Parker, of AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, recommended a variety of paint strippers to the Restoration Division of the National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF) to aid restoration of the Memphis Belle aircraft. The restoration team estimates it

  • AFRL Supports CCID With Radio Frequency Tag Flight Tests

    AFRL conducted three radio frequency (RF) tag technical flight tests as part of an operational demonstration supporting the Coalition Combat Identification (CCID) technology demonstration. The test results were instrumental to modifying the radar software subsequently used during the final military

  • Data Collection Supports Sensors Development

    AFRL engineers conducted joint data collection with representatives from the Air Force Institute of Technology, Strategic Communications, and Los Alamos National Laboratory to support development of the Angel Fire airborne electro-optical sensor and the Goals, Objectives, Technical Challenges, and

  • Camera Trio Enhances Solar Storm Forecasting

    Every 100-plus minutes, while orbiting approximately 50 miles above the earth aboard the Coriolis satellite, the experimental Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) scans the darkness of space seeking sun-generated, magnetic particle clouds bound for earth. Since the SMEI became operational in January