• AFRL Transitions CVT3 to Help Facilitate Accident Investigations

    AFRL engineers transitioned their cockpit voice recorder transcription and timing tool (known as CVT3) to both the Air Force Safety Center and the Army Combat Readiness Center. The audio processing technology is designed to facilitate accident investigations that involve audio recordings and

  • AFRL Fields Web-Based Tool for Evaluating

    AFRL engineers conceived, designed, and developed an online image-quality evaluation tool to fulfill a critical need associated with the creation of an autonomous approach and landing capability (AALC). The AALC encompasses sensor, human, and air vehicle considerations and thus employs an

  • Virtual Mannequins Help Improve Ergonomic Design of Future Automobiles

    Ford Motor Company has adopted an AFRL-developed multivariate case method to establish an automotive-industry first--a set of nine computer-aided design (CAD)-created virtual mannequins modeled after representative human body characteristics. Ford is using the virtual human mannequins to assist its

  • AFRL Simulates Air-to-Air Combat With Directed Energy Weapon

    In an effort to investigate the effect of a high-energy laser in air-to-air combat, AFRL is performing a Tactical High-Energy Laser Utility Study (THELUS) in a virtual simulation environment. As a follow-on to a previous test, AFRL scientists performed simulated tests of air-to-air engagement

  • Bright Onyx Sensor Designed for UAV Homeland Security Missions

    AFRL scientists are tailoring a Bright Onyx sensor, an active multispectral chemical, to be in sync with unmanned air vehicle (UAV) performance standards (such as weight, size, and power requirements). The sensor's design enables remote detection of chemicals associated with weapons of mass

  • AFRL Completes Successful Dual-Use Science and Technology Initiative

    AFRL, in partnership with Williams International and Hood Technology Corporation, managed a Dual-Use Science and Technology initiative to advance Nonintrusive Stress Measurement System (NSMS) technology for small turbine engines. Exploiting initial NSMS research conducted by the Arnold Engineering

  • Alternative Jet Fuel Shows Reduced Emissions

    AFRL researchers completed successful engine emissions tests supporting the Department of Defense's Assured Fuels Initiative, an effort to develop secure domestic fuel sources for the military's energy needs. Under the program, researchers demonstrated the operation of a manned Air Force aircraft

  • Office of Naval Research Using AFRL SBIR-Developed Technologies

    Scientific Research Corporation (SRC) developed a trio of technologies under an AFRL Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) Cave-Optimized Audio/Video-Enabled Network (CAVE-Net) program is now utilizing these technologies. CAVE-Net provides

  • AFRL Develops Plasma Actuator Computational Model

    Controlling subsonic aerodynamic flow by means of plasma actuators is an active area of research in both the Air Force (AF) and the general scientific community. A typical plasma actuator consists of two offset electrodes separated by a dielectric material. Plasma forms as the voltage difference