THE FOLLOWING KEY WORDS WILL SEARCH BY THOSE CATEGORIES: BASE EVENTS; BASE EXERCISES; PEOPLE, WPAFB IN THE COMMUNITY
Only 100 pages of images will display. Consider refining search terms for better results.
AFOSR-Funded Self-Healing Plastics
A singularly successful energy related program funded by AFOSR at the turn of the century was the development of self-healing plastics. This research could lead to enormous payoffs for the Air Force—as well as many commercial applications—resulting in more durable and longer lasting aircraft structures. (Credit: University of Illinois)
Advanced Appraisal of Protective Eyewear a Foreseeable Field Capability
Physical Optics Corporation worked under AFRL Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop this DOUBLET (Dual Optical Ultrawide Band Laser Eyewear Transmission) device, a capability enabling field personnel to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively evaluate the protective capacity of their laser eye protection eyewear (e.g., spectacles, visors, side shields) according to rigorous LEP safety controls.
Advanced Appraisal of Protective Eyewear a Foreseeable Field Capability
Physical Optics Corporation worked under AFRL Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop this DOUBLET (Dual Optical Ultrawide Band Laser Eyewear Transmission) device, a capability enabling field personnel to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively evaluate the protective capacity of their laser eye protection eyewear (e.g., spectacles, visors, side shields) according to rigorous LEP safety controls.
Laser Modeling With Wolfram Mathematica
Mr. Clint Zeringue, from the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate's Laser Division, and Wolfram Research developed an extensive modeling and simulation software package in Mathematica to model fiber laser amplifiers. (Photo by Jilyan Landon)
Reducing Power System Weight for Combat Controllers
AFRL engineers manage the Battlefield Renewable Integrated Tactical Energy System to reduce the power system weight of combat controllers by 50 percent for a standard 72-hour mission.
Air Force, NASCAR discuss hearing protection technology
Air Force officials partnered with Richard Petty Motorsports and the storied No. 43 car, which is pictured here driven by Reed Sorenson at Bristol Motor Speedway. Air Force Technology Transfer officials met with NASCAR and industry officials recently to discuss hearing protection and communications technology for drivers. (Photo submitted)
Air Force, NASCAR discuss hearing protection technology
Government and SPEAR Labs officials met at Bristol Motor Speedway to discuss hearing protection and communications technology that was successfully developed for the Warfighter to determine if it can work for NASCAR drivers who also operate in extremely noisy conditions. From left are Augustine Vu (seated), Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program manager; Mr. Dale Lott, president of SPEAR Labs; Mr. John Thornton, co-owner of SPEAR Labs; and Ms. Cynthia Gonsalves, director, Office of the Secretary of Defense/Office of Technology Transition (OSD/OTT). (Photo submitted)
Air Force, NASCAR discuss hearing protection technology
Pictured at Bristol Motor Speedway are, from left: Mr. Reed Sorenson, driver of the Air Force sponsored NASCAR racecar; John Thornton, co-owner of SPEAR Labs; Lt. Gen. Larry D. James, Commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command, and Commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command; Ms. Cynthia Gonsalves, Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense/Office of Technology Transition (OSD/OTT); and Mr. Augustine Vu, Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Manager. (Photo submitted)
Finding New Applications for Carbon Nanostructures
Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives basic research funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may someday be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force. (Credit: Adam Tsen, Cornell University)
USAFSAM's DIMO presents regional trauma and disaster response training
Lt. Colonel W. Tracy Jones (left) is shown with Tajikistan Minister of Health Nusratullo Salimov following a regional trauma and disaster response training event held in Tajikistan for 26 senior-level physicians representing Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan. (Air Force photo)
USAFSAM's Defense Institute for Medical Operations trains Tajikistan physicians
Defense Institute for Medical Operations members who participated in a training mission for physicians in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan included (from left): Lt. Col. Barry Thomas, Captain Heather Hancock, Mr. Nusratullo Salimov, Tajikistan Minister of Health; Captain Francis Obuseh, and Lt. Col. W. Tracey Jones. (Air Force photo)
AFRL academic research partnership to investigate operational stressors on Airmen
Air Force Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Saber Hussain views particle interaction with cultured cells. His work on the development of a model to identify the impact of stressors on Airmen is at the center of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement that will establish a new laboratory facility at Wright State University. (Courtesy photo)
X-Ray Fluorescence Gets Glowing Reports in Engine Debris Analysis
Researchers from AFRL and industry partner GasTOPS, Inc., successfully demonstrated this prototype engine lubricant analyzer, which employs X-ray fluorescence technology. The XRF analyzer uses data from an aircraft engine's magnetic chip detectors to assess the levels and types of particulate debris captured (AFRL image).
New Magnetron Could Help Defeat Enemy Electronics
Existing UM relativistic magnetron that generates 100's of MW of microwave power. The new UM magnetron invention is expected to be much more compact than the existing device with higher power and faster startup.
Super-fast Computing
Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported physicists at the University of Michigan are developing innovative components for quantum, or super-fast, computers that will improve security for data storage and transmission on Air Force systems. (Bo Sun, artist, Applied Physics doctoral student, University of Michigan)
711th Human Performance Wing program wins regional technology transfer award
Kristen Schario (left), regional coordinator for the Federal Laboratory Consortium Midwest Region, presented an FLC Midwest Region Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for AFRL’s Live-Virtual-Constructive technology to (from second-left) Kristen Barrera, LVC program manager; and AFRL collaborators Brian Schreiber of LUMIR Research, Inc. and Rod Powers from Cubic Applications, Inc. (Photo by Amanda Snyder, FLC)
SBIR On Board With Engine Health Management
An AFRL/industry Small Business Innovation Research effort successfully demonstrated a generic integrated onboard system supporting aircraft engine health management.
Affordable RadHard Components a Modified Foundry Away
AFRL demonstrated a technique that uses 16 Mbit static random access memory to modify a high-volume, commercial microcircuit foundry to provide radiation-hardened microcircuits with high yield and reduced cost. The new technique lowers production costs by millions of dollars and is minimally invasive to the foundry?s existing commercial process.
Mission ready electronics
AFOSR-funded near-field plates could lead to microscopes with unprecedented resolution, hi-tech lithography systems, and electronics that are always charged and mission ready. (Photo Credit: Cyan James)
Supercomputer supports Gotcha radar
Distinguished visitors dedicate Desch, an SGI Altix ICE 8200 supercomputer, during a ribbon cutting ceremony August 31 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The new supercomputer is named after Joseph Desch, a Dayton, Ohio engineer who developed computing machines during World War II to decipher German Enigma-coded communications. It will be used to translate real-time synthetic aperture radar data from the Gotcha radar system being developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory into high-resolution 3D images. Pictured from left to right are Dr. David Jerome, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate; Deborah Desch Anderson, daughter of Joseph Desch; Dr. Michael Kuliasha, AFRL chief technologist; Jim Brinker, vice president of SGI Federal Service. (U.S. Air Force photo/William Pugh)