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
Aug. 19, 2021 AFRL to showcase space-related technologies, SpaceWERX at 36th National Space Symposium WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory will showcase several space-related technologies, new ways to connect with and share an idea or capability with AFRL, and the beginning of SpaceWERX, the U.S. Space Force affiliated arm of AFWERX during the 36th Space
Aug. 17, 2021 AFRL and UK partner, Dstl, bring together worldwide competitive AI experts with Swarm and Search Capture the Flag Challenge WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – A collaborative challenge formulated by the Air Force Research Laboratory in the United States and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, or Dstl, in the United Kingdom brought together competitive AI experts from around the world in its second
Aug. 17, 2021 AFRL showcases new precision effects capability EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory concluded its Dialable Effects Munition demonstration program during a test of the experimental weapon July 28. The DEM, an Office of the Secretary of Defense-funded Joint Capability Technology Demonstration, aims to mature,
Aug. 12, 2021 AFRL electro-optics team honored by U.S., UK Defense departments WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – A team of electro-optical scientists and engineers in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors and Materials & Manufacturing directorates and the 711th Human Performance Wing were recently recognized by the U.S. and UK governments with a 2021 U.S. -