March 15, 2024 AFRL senior leaders encourage Ohio youth at annual robotics state championship Middle and high school students joined senior Air Force Research Laboratory leaders at Hobart Arena in Troy, Ohio, March 9, 2024, to participate in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, or FIRST, Tech Challenge Ohio State Championship. Thirty-six teams across Ohio were
March 13, 2024 AFGSC, USAFSAM hold Missile Community Cancer Study virtual town hall AFGSC Commander Gen. Bussiere held a virtual town hall Feb. 23 with current and former missile community members currently serving throughout several organizations to provide updates on environmental sampling results, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) mitigation efforts, and the results from the
March 13, 2024 AFWERX director discusses role of tech startups, quick innovation in Great Power Competition AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm, met with technologists, startups and venture capitalists at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8-11, 2024, to discuss national and global security challenges and the role AFWERX plays in acquiring the cutting-edge technologies needed
March 12, 2024 AFWERX funds successful kitted maintenance enclosure product for improved DAF fleet sustainment AFWERX, the DAF’s innovation arm and a functional directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Direct to Phase II contract of approximately $1 million to Miamisburg, Ohio-based company Cornerstone Research Group, Inc. to fund the development
March 8, 2024 AFWERX, SpaceWERX announce Strategic Funding Increase selections at South by Southwest AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and powered by the Air Force Research Laboratory, and SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, announced the Program Year 2024 Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, a contract award
March 7, 2024 AFRL Biotech Days Summit unites scientific community Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers met with strategic partners from the Department of Defense, other U.S. government agencies, academia, industry and state organizations to share progress and collaborate at the third AFRL Biotech Days Summit Feb. 27-28, 2024, at Wright-State
March 5, 2024 Academia, workforce mutually benefit from new radiation effects and testing lab The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new University of New Mexico, or UNM, COSMIAC Radiation Effects Lab, or CREL, Dec. 8, 2023.
March 5, 2024 AFRL looks to fill multiple positions at hiring event April 2-3 The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will hire entry-level to expert positions across multiple AFRL locations at a hiring event at the Holiday Inn, 2800 Presidential Drive, Fairborn, April 2-3 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. DVIDS link:
March 1, 2024 AFRL Commander urges “AFMC Teammates” to participate in 2024 AFRL Commander’s Challenge The event, which is open to junior officers, enlisted military members and DOD civilians from across the entire Command, tasks competitors to develop low-cost solutions to intercept and defeat slow-moving, high-altitude aerial targets.
March 1, 2024 DAF successfully tests new agile aircraft power lightcart The Department of the Air Force, or DAF, completed testing of the 400Hz Aircraft Power Lightcart, or 400 APL in January 2024. The tests, which were conducted with the 174th Attack Wing at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base in Syracuse, New York, saw the prototype successfully power an MQ-9, or