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  • Dr. Sean Donegan of the Air Force Research Laboratory, is a participant in the NAE 2020 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. He is a research materials engineer and lead for a Center of Excellence in machine learning for materials science with Carnegie Mellon University. (Courtesy photo)

    AFRL engineer to participate in NAE's 2020 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –  A high-performing Air Force Research Laboratory engineer will represent the lab at the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) 26th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) symposium.Eighty-five of the nation’s sharpest early-career engineers from industry, academia and government were nominated by
  • An F-16 Fighting Falcon flown by Maj. Jacob Schonig from the 416th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, California, conducts a mid-air refueling operation with a KC-135 Stratotanker during a captive-carry flight test of a Gray Wolf cruise missile prototype, June 9. (Air Force photo by Ethan Wagner)

    416th FLTS, AFRL tests “Gray Wolf” prototype cruise missile

    The 416th Flight Test Squadron recently completed a round of tests of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s “Gray Wolf” prototype cruise missile at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
  • A Transport Isolation System unit used to transport COVID-19 patients is positioned on a C-17 Globemaster III, June 26, 2020, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Two TIS units are located at Dover, which serves as the U.S. East Coast hub due to its location and support facilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Roland Balik)

    Air Force surgeon general talks about COVID-19, innovation, leadership

    Lt. Gen. Dorothy Hogg, U.S. Air Force surgeon general, accompanied by Chief Master Sgt. Dawn Kolczynski, Air Force Surgeon General chief of medical operations, toured and learned about the Transport Isolation System aboard a C-17 Globemaster III, June 26.
  • PHYSIO is an Air Force Research Laboratory project executed through NextFlex that aims at creating next-generation flight-suit technology for Air Force pilots with a compressed garment containing integrated biometric sensors. PHYSIO enables physiological monitoring of pilots. (Courtesy graphic)

    Department of Defense, NextFlex sign new cooperative agreement

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory and NextFlex recently settled on a seven-year funding agreement worth up to $154 million that includes funding from the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Manufacturing Technology program.The agreement focuses on defense manufacturing requirements to sustain NextFlex’s
  • Airman 1st Class Rehanna Payne, a medical technician, uses medical monitoring technology called the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit, or BATDOK, to check the vitals of a patient while she stands in a hallway of the Wright-Patterson Medical Center April 28. The Air Force Research Laboratory adapted this technology, originally developed for the pararescue community, for medical facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)

    Datalinks flight helps test mobile health monitor

    Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit connects to a variety of medical sensors that measures a patient’s vital signs such as heart and respiratory rates as well as blood oxygen saturation.
  • Master Sgt. James Chase of the AFRL 711th Human Performance Wing Biodynamics team prepares an instrumented 250-pound test device, simulating a human occupant, for seat testing on the Horizontal Impulse Accelerator, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The test is one of a series recently conducted to support the acceptance and implementation of the Portable Biocontainment Care Module, which will aid in the safe transport of personnel affected by infectious diseases, including COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of Infoscitex Corporation/Christopher Albery)

    AFRL quick-response testing aids COVID-19 medical transport

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing Biodynamics team is playing a vital role in the COVID-19 relief effort through testing to enable the safe transport of individuals affected by infectious diseases and biological agents.At the request of Air Mobility Command, the team recently
  • Airman 1st Class Rehanna Payne, a medical technician, uses medical monitoring technology called the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit, or BATDOK, to check the vitals of a patient while she stands in a hallway of the Wright-Patterson Medical Center April 28. The Air Force Research Laboratory adapted this technology, originally developed for the pararescue community, for medical facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo by Wesley Farnsworth)

    AFRL adapts PJ tactics for COVID-19 monitoring

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory is leveraging tactics from the Air Force pararescue (PJ) community, employing a new tool that can monitor multiple patients’ vital signs, helping to alleviate the lean doctor-to-patient ratio that many medical facilities are facing amidst COVID-19.“One of the struggles
  • A Bob Violett Models ‘Renegade’ commercial, off-the-shelf, turbine-powered jet aircraft, is parked at a dry lake bed prior to a test flight at Edwards Air Force Base, March 4. The aircraft will be used as an autonomous software test bed by the 412th Test Wing's Emerging Technology Combined Test Force. (Air Force photo by Chris Dyer)

    ET-CTF completes new test bed flight tests

    The Emerging Technology Combined Test Force successfully completed flight tests on its newest autonomous aircraft test bed last month at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The flight tests are in support of the Skyborg project with the goal to ultimately provide an autonomous software testing package.

  • Air Force expedites N95 mask production contract awards

    The Department’s Air Force Research Lab DPA Title 3 Executive Program Office, in coordination with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Office for Industrial Policy and Department of the Air Force’s Acquisition COVID-19 Task Force, or DAF-ACT, finalized contracts within five days of White House Task Force approval.
  • Dr. Rhett Martineau, UES/Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, visits the Environmental Assessment team demo described by Jerimiah Jackson, UES/711th Human Performance Wing. Dr. Amy Breedon and Jacke Kirsch, UES/711th Human Performance Wing, observe. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)

    AFRL holds Biotech Days

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory are using biotechnology solutions to address Air Force problems. Synthetic biology is being explored as a way to make novel chemical and materials, insect-inspired solutions are creating new ways to engineer remote navigation systems and other biotechnology
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