Sept. 15, 2021 AFRL to showcase key programs, processes to provide warfighters with innovative technologies at Air, Space & Cyber Conference WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory will showcase several areas including Department of the Air Force Vanguard programs, COVID-19 response efforts, innovative capabilities for base defense and palletized munitions plus several avenues for sharing ideas or
Sept. 14, 2021 AFRL breaks ground on high-tech wargaming facility The Wargaming and Advanced Research Simulation (WARS) Laboratory will house the Directed Energy Wargaming and Simulation Branch and the Space Vehicles Simulation and Analysis Branch.
Sept. 9, 2021 AFRL promotes ‘One lab, two services’ at Space Symposium COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AFRL) – Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle and other AFRL subject matter experts gathered to connect with the space community at the Space Foundation’s 36th National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs August 23-27. Space Foundation Chief
Sept. 2, 2021 AFRL offers university satellite program KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) request for proposals (RFP) will be open until October 1. UNP funds U.S. university students and programs to design, build, launch, and operate small satellites with the primary goal to
Aug. 30, 2021 AFRL extends capability for testing solid rocket motors with new equipment EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory's Rocket Propulsion Division has a new capability, a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar system, also known as a Kolsky bar, that measures stress at high strain rates and helps analyze material behavior under severe conditions. “This
Aug. 27, 2021 Air Force medics partner with University of Nebraska to sharpen biocontainment care skills Lt. Gen. Robert I. Miller, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, visited the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program on August 18, receiving updates on the program’s Principles of Biocontainment Care course and the Air Force’s partnership with Nebraska Medicine and the
Aug. 26, 2021 AFRL Munitions Directorate opens new collaborative facilities for faster technology development EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate recently opened two new jointly constructed facilities here, designed to serve as adaptable and collaborative workspace environments. These facilities will encourage rapid, cross-disciplinary interactions and
Aug. 26, 2021 USAFSAM provides deployment training to medics WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Aeromedical evacuation instructors from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine provided an all-day deployment training on patient movement Aug. 12 to a team of 14 medics from the 88th Medical Group who currently work at the Wright-Patt Medical
Aug. 25, 2021 Entrepreneur Opportunity Program helps turn AFRL people, ideas into new private sector businesses WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Entrepreneurial Opportunities Program is turning scientists and engineers into business owners to speed emerging technology to warfighters.“AFRL is great at innovating new technologies, but unless someone, somewhere
Aug. 20, 2021 Rapid Dragon conducts first system-level demonstration of palletized munitions EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Rapid Dragon Program, a fast-paced experimentation campaign led by the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office, completed two more successful demonstrations during its first system-level flight tests of this potential new