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AFRL employees receive Fellow and Early Career Award recognition
Dr. Benji Maruyama, Principal Materials Research Engineer and Leader of the Flexible Materials and Processes Research Team in the Functional Materials Division, is named an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow for his scientific and engineering achievements. (U.S. Air Force photo/Karen Schlesinger)
AFRL team invents cargo aircraft tire change tool
Current C-5 cargo airplane tire replacement requires up to five Airmen with a multitude of tools to replace a tire. The Air Force Research Laboratory Junior Force Warfighter Operations Team works on a solution for this awkward and uncomfortable task.(U.S. Air Force photo)
AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate Open House wows visitors
AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate Aerospace Engineer Chris Marks explains the low speed cascade wind tunnel during the Aug. 19, 2019, Open House. This facility is used to gather data that impacts the efficiency, size, weight, and cost of future Air Force engines. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tim Bergeron)
Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductor
The Air Force Research Laboratory developed Polymerized Liquid Metal Network rupturing to transform into a highly stretchable design that autonomously increases conductivity with strain. (Courtesy Image/Second Bay Studios.)
AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate welcomes new director
Dr. Michael Gregg officially assumed the role of director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate on Sept. 3, 2019. (U.S. Air Force Photo)
AFRL employees receive Great Minds in STEM Award
Capt. Lisa Fernandez, Air Force Research Laboratory medical entomologist, is selected to receive the 2019 STEM Military and Civilian Hero Award at the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM Conference in September 2019, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
AFRL employees receive Great Minds in STEM Award
Javier Rodriguez, engineer, of the Air Force Research Laboratory is selected to receive the 2019 STEM Military and Civilian Hero Award at the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM Conference in September 2019, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
AFRL licenses second technology to local firm
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Assistant Chief Engineer, Dr. Larry Brott, displays infrared powder used to form pellets in the creation of infrared technologies for battlefield communication and training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Donna Lindner)
AFRL researcher honored with 2019 SASE award
Dr. Vikas Varshney of the Air Force Research Laboratory is one of four AFRL personnel chosen to receive the 2019 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers award.
AFRL engineers lauded for professional achievements
Dr. James Joo, AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate Advanced Structural Concepts team lead, received the Engineer/Scientist of the Year award from the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers for his work with advanced aircraft structural concept designs. (U.S. Air Force photo)
AFRL engineers lauded for professional achievements
Capt. Dharyl Monsalud, deputy chief of the AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate Combustion Devices Branch, received the Technical/Research/Business Achievement award from the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers for his work in space technologies. (U.S. Air Force photo)
AFRL researcher named American Chemical Society Fellow
Dr. Hilmar Koerner of the Air Force Research Laboratory, was elected to the 2019 Class of the American Chemical Society of Fellows. He uses a 3D printer to print epoxy carbon fiber reinforced inks. (U.S. Air Force photo/Donna Lindner)
AFRL aerodynamics expert honored with Presidential Early Career award
Dr. Daniel Garmann (left) received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, at a July 25, 2019, ceremony in Washington, DC. (U.S. Department of Energy Photo/Donica Payne)
711th Human Performance Wing welcomes new commander
Brig. Gen. (Dr.) James H. Dienst assumed command of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing June 21, 2019, in a change of command ceremony at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/courtesy photo)
AFRL and partners reclaim obsolete aircraft parts using advanced manufacturing technology
Solomon Duning, Research Engineer from The University of Dayton Research Institute, uses laser scanning technology to inspect an F-16 vertical tail on a depot fixture. (Courtesy photo)
AFRL produces lighter, thinner transparent armor
A projectile exit point is shown in the ballistic glass (left). The aluminum oxynitride transparent ceramic armor is shown (right) with a bulge and no exit from the projectile. (Courtesy photo)
AFRL produces lighter, thinner transparent armor
The Army UH-60M helicopter platforms use transparent armor systems mounted behind the pilots. (Courtesy photo)
AFRL’s metals experts receive STAR Team Award
STAR teams use Synchrotron X-Ray facilities to conduct High Energy Diffraction Microscopy experiments. The data collected from these experiments is used to create models. (U.S. Air Force photo/Paul Shade)
AFRL’s metals experts receive STAR Team Award
Close up of the High Energy Diffraction Microscopy machine. (U.S. Air Force photo/Paul Shade)
Air Force, industry consortium advancing tech for aeromedical evacuation
These wearable sweat patch prototypes from GE Global Research are among the technologies being explored through an industry-academia partnership managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and SEMI, a global industry association of manufacturing companies. Through a recently-released request for information, the team is looking to advance human-monitoring research and development for the future warfighter. (Photo courtesy of SEMI/Heidi Hoffman)