• Handheld Laser Eliminates Costly Waste Streams

    AFRL scientists and engineers, working with Air Force Materiel Command, identified and tested several portable handheld laser devices that can remove paint from small-area aircraft surfaces and individual aircraft components without the use of hazardous chemical strippers or abrasive blast media.

  • AFRL Conducts Successful Micro-Meteoroid Impact Tests

    AFRL scientists, partnering with Sandia National Laboratories, replicated a micro-meteoroid's collision with a satellite. The effort, which involved ground-based replication of a cosmos-based event, proved a daunting challenge for the team, but perseverance--along with a strategy change--overcame

  • AFRL Research Helps Relieve Pain for Wounded Forces

    Wounded Airmen and soldiers being airlifted from the Iraqi battlefield have not previously had an effective pain control system available to them during transport. To address this critical need, AFRL scientists completed electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) research that subsequently qualified the

  • AFRL Releases New TBONE Capabilities

    AFRL engineers successfully completed a 46th Test Squadron, combined test force, risk reduction test (RRT) at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The RRT served to incrementally test newly developed capabilities for the Theater Battle Operations Network-Centric Environment (TBONE) and integrate them into