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Robotic wheelchair competition unleashes student creativity
Students participating in the Robotic Sentry portion of the 2017 AFRL Student Challenge prepare to demonstrate their robot on the obstacle course. This yearly AFRL-sponsored project enables college seniors to gain practical experience in aerospace engineering by taking on real-world Air Force needs. (Photo courtesy of Ohio Aerospace Institute)
Robotic wheelchair competition unleashes student creativity
The student team from Worcester Polytechnic Institute poses with a tracked all-terrain chair, donated by Action Trackchair, that they will use to build their prototype robotic sentry as part of the AFRL Student Challenge. (Photo courtesy of Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
NextFlex Fellow named from AFRL
Dr. Richard Vaia (left), technical director, in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, was one of six people selected to receive the NextFlex Fellow award. Vaia is congratulated by Dr. Benjamin Leever, senior materials engineer and Government Chief Technology Officer of NextFlex. (U.S. Air Force photo/Karen Schlesinger)
AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
AFRL-developed microencapsulated chemiluminescent materials can be used to create “crayons” to write glowing messages or mark items in the field. This technology was recently licensed to startup company Battle Sight Technologies LLC for commercial production. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
The AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Technology Transfer office recently licensed in-house developed microencapsulated chemiluminescent materials to startup company Battle Sight Technologies LLC. These materials can be used in glow stick “crayons” to write messages or mark items in the field. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
AFRL-developed microencapsulated chemiluminescent materials were recently licensed to Battle Sight Technologies LLC for the production of glowing “crayons” that can be created in many colors for different uses. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
AFRL-developed microencapsulated chemiluminescent materials can be formed into large beads for a variety of potential “glow stick” applications. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
AFRL partners with entrepreneurs to light the way for the warfighter
AFRL Materials Engineer Dr. Larry Brott demonstrates the process through which he microencapsulates chemiluminescent materials for use in applications such as multi-use glow stick “crayons.” (U.S. Air Force Photo/Holly Jordan)
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Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright answers questions during the Air Force Materiel Command’s Chief Orientation Course Feb. 8, 2018, in the AFMC headquarters building, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The course was attended by the command’s senior master sergeants who have been selected for advancement to the rank of chief master sergeant. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
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Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force Kaleth O. Wright answers questions during the Air Force Materiel Command’s Chief Orientation Course Feb. 8, 2018, in the AFMC headquarters building, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The course was attended by the command’s senior master sergeants who have been selected for advancement to the rank of chief master sergeant. (U.S. Air Force photo by R.J. Oriez)
AFRL helps enable laser paint removal technology
The newly-approved Robotic Laser Coating Removal System vaporizes paint in a self-contained process that significantly reduces environmental hazards to maintainers. AFRL contributed technical expertise to help enable the use of this technology for production F-16 aircraft. (Photo courtesy of University of Dayton Research Institute/Dale Jackson)
AFRL senior scientist receives society’s highest honor
Dr. Daniel Miracle, a senior scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, will receive The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Fellow Award on March 14, 2018, in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Personnel from the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and Samson Rope, Ferndale, Wash., demonstrate proposed items for the C-17 Globemaster III fleet Jan. 30, 2018, on Dover Air Force Base, Del. Maintenance personnel from the 736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron set up an aircraft and back-shop facilities to gather additional data for synthetic rope chains and winch cable usage. (U.S. Air Force photo/Roland Balik)
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate honors annual awards winners
Michael Cleary presented the directorate’s most prestigious award, the Charles J. Cleary Scientific Achievement Award, to the Flexible Gallium Nitride for High Performance, Strainable Radio Frequency Devices Team at the 65th Annual Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Awards Luncheon. Shown left to right Dr. Donald Dorsey, Col. Charles Ormsby, Dr. Benji Maruyama, Dr. Nicholas Glavin, Dr. Timothy Bunning, Dr. Eric Heller and Michael Cleary. (U.S. Air Force photo / Karen Schlesinger)
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate honors annual awards winners
Dr. David Walker served as guest speaker for the 65th Annual Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Awards Luncheon. Walker currently serves as Director of Technology in the Office of Naval Research. He was honored to return for the event as he has ties to the Directorate in his former capacity as former AFRL Vice Commander and former Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Director. (U.S. Air Force photo / Karen Schlesinger)
Materials engineer finds second calling as historic novelist
Engineer by day, author by night: AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineer TJ Turner demonstrates a conformal body armor prototype, part of a project he worked on to develop more comfortable armored vests with greater coverage. (U.S. Air Force photo/Lori Hughes)
AFRL licenses antibody breakthrough for humanitarian use
AFRL project researchers Dr. Joseph Slocik (left), Dr. Rajesh Naik, and Dr. Patrick Dennis review the recently-signed licensing agreement that grants locally-based innovators S.A.Wyze exclusive rights to use AFRL-developed Ultra-Stable Antibody Liquids technology for human diagnostic work. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Kristi Singh)
General Server
General Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command commander, serves up dinner to enlisted airman at the Pitsenbarger dining facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base December 12, 2017. As an annual one evening event WPAFB top leadership act as servers at the base dining facility during the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Al Bright/Released)
General Servers
From the left, Lieutenant General Robert McMurry, Jr., Air Force Life Cycle Management Center commander, General Ellen Pawlikowski, Air Force Materiel Command Center commander, Ms. Patricia Young, Air Force Materiel Command executive director and Ms. Kathy Watern, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center executive director, stand by to serve holiday dinner to base enlisted members at the Pitsenbarger dining facility, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base December 12, 2017. As an annual one evening event WPAFB top leadership act as servers at the base dining facility during the holiday season. (U.S. Air Force photo by Al Bright/Released)
AFRL enhances survival tools for isolated airmen
2nd Lt. Brent Young, AFRL researcher and member of the Ejection Seat Survival Kit Enhancement, Modernization and Optimization team, tests a new and improved knife for the kit. Testing and consensus from the 22TRS and 336TRG will be determined and then recommended to the Air Force for inclusion in the survival kit. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Jason Goins)