• Air Force agreement enables collaboration on aircraft anti-icing technology

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center  and Battelle Memorial Institute established a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to develop affordable, light-weight, easily-adaptable ice protection technology.  In order to achieve maximum operational

  • SMC, ULA Enter into CRADA to Certify Vulcan Launch Vehicle

    The Space and Missile Systems Center signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with United Launch Alliance (ULA) as part of the company’s effort to certify its new Vulcan launch vehicle for National Security Space (NSS) missions. This cooperative, jointly-written agreement

  • AFRL celebrates patents, seeks to further bolster numbers

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- It would be safe to assume that a pioneering research and development organization such as the Air Force Research Laboratory possesses its fair share of patented intellectual property.  The fact is that 218 patents have been filed by AFRL since 2011, with 49

  • An AF first for aircraft research, development

    For the first time the Air Force has a means to conduct airworthiness assessments on non-Defense Department military type aircraft. This process enables the Air Force to gain a much deeper understanding of the state of civil aviation, while providing industry with an expert, independent evaluation

  • USAFSAM to study potential transfer of novel viruses via bed bugs

    The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine recently signed a limited-purpose Material Transfer Agreement Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (MTA-CRADA) with the University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio. This unique agreement does not include a financial contribution, but rather the

  • Battlefield Airmen use science to beat the heat

    Heat-related illness is a critical factor when personnel are operating in extreme temperatures. Dr. Reginald O'Hara and his exercise physiology research team at the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, are working to reduce that heat stress.