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  • AFIT, Air Force Academy partner with Thai Ministry of Defence

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force Institute of Technology and the U.S. Air Force Academy partnered with the Thai Ministry of Defence on an information-exchange agreement project titled, “Remote Sensing for Base Perimeter Defense.”It is the first such agreement between the

  • Sensors Directorate holds fifth annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- For half a decade, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has held a ceremony of remembrance to honor those who lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks and in the War on Terror since that day.It did so once

  • Environmental sensing platform offers added protection against corrosion

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – AFRL is developing an innovative new tool to more effectively manage aircraft corrosion.Researchers from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate are developing and testing a device that could help pre-emptively predict corrosive environmental

  • AFRL-led patches make ‘sense’ of sweat

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – It’s a sweaty project, but the sweat is worth the effort for scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory working to better understand the links between materials, technology and warfighter performance.Born out of an AFRL and industry collaboration within

  • AFRL’s AgilePod shows ISR versatility during Scorpion fit test

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- To be ‘agile’ means to be nimble, responsive and able to adapt quickly and easily to any situation. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s premier intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance pod, the AgilePod, lived up to its moniker as it integrated

  • AFRL developing AgilePod ‘family’ to augment sensing grid

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Building on the recent success of AgilePod ‘1.0,’ Air Force Research Laboratory engineers have embarked on a new “mini” AgilePod effort to increase the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities of the platform by decreasing the footprint of

  • AFRL’s cutting edge ISR platform commences Harvest Reaper flight testing

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A year of cutting-edge technology development and prototyping by Air Force Research Laboratory teams has culminated in a series of flight demonstrations as part of the Sensors Directorate Blue Guardian “Project Harvest Reaper.” AFRL’s AgilePod has embarked on