Jan. 29, 2024 AFWERX Autonomy Prime, Xwing partner for autonomous flight demonstration AFWERX Autonomy Prime partner Xwing Inc. successfully completed an autonomous logistics mission in its Cessna 208B as dozens of Airmen watched from a ground control station at McClellan Airfield in Sacramento, California, Jan. 26, 2024.
Jan. 29, 2024 Third annual AFRL Cyber, Space Summit draws increased participation in New Mexico The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted its third annual New Mexico Cyber and Space Summit in Albuquerque last fall. Attendees included military and professionals from the Department of Defense, private and commercial industries, the intelligence community and academia. The summit aimed
Jan. 3, 2024 Combat Avionics Division demonstrates successful third-party PNT tech insertion Another breakthrough for the Agile Combat Support Directorate PNT program office.
Dec. 26, 2023 AFWERX Challenge rapidly brings solutions to the warfighter As the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force, AFWERX finds creative ways to bring cutting-edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to the battlefield. One of those methods is the AFWERX Challenge, a fast and efficient way to solve a mission-critical problem and create
Dec. 22, 2023 AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley to accelerate materials discovery to deployment The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, the National Science Foundation, or NSF, and representatives from some of the nation’s leading academic institutions joined forces at the Wright Brothers Institute in downtown Dayton, Ohio, for the NSF’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize our Future, or
Dec. 21, 2023 AFWERX Year in Review 2023 2023 was a historic year for AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and a directorate within Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. AFWERX brings cutting edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing
Dec. 20, 2023 Missile Community Cancer Study Round 1 environmental sampling results release The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and AFGSC released the complete results of the Round 1 Environmental Sampling effort at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming, and Minot AFB, North Dakota, today.
Dec. 19, 2023 Rapid Dragon top overall winner in Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards Lockheed Martin and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office, or SDPE, received top honors for the Rapid Dragon Palletized Munitions campaign at the Aviation Week Network 2023 Program Excellence Awards, announced Nov. 8, 2023.
Dec. 14, 2023 AFRL provides US with robust future quantum computing, networking capabilities In the past year, AFRL’s Information Directorate with congressional support and funding has collaborated with several industry and academic partners to help build an industrial support system that is advancing the United States’ capabilities in quantum technology.
Dec. 13, 2023 AFWERX accepting applications for spring 2024 fellowship AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is accepting applications for its upcoming spring Traditional Fellowship Program through Jan. 5.