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  • The Air Force Research Laboratory developed Polymerized Liquid Metal Network rupturing to transform into a highly stretchable design that autonomously increases conductivity with strain. (Courtesy Image/Second Bay Studios.)

    Air Force scientists discover unique stretchable conductor

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed liquid metal systems which autonomously change structure so that they become better conductors in response to strain.Conductive materials change their properties as they are strained or stretched. Typically, electrical conductivity decreases and resistance
  • An image of a technician securing a drone following a demonstration.

    38th CEIG hosts airspace security drone demonstration

     A small drone is flying over a military installation, when suddenly, like a bird of prey, an X-3 Drone Hunter swoops down and shoots a net at the drone, ensnaring it in the webbing and carries it back to the controller on the ground.  Sound like a scene out of the latest spy thriller movie? No. It was part of a demonstration of drone technology
  • Ethan Jacobs, unmanned aerial system engineer, launches a UAS during a field test Sept. 4 at Camp Bullis, Texas. The UAS was equipped with Light Detection and Ranging, multi-spectral sensors and machine-learning algorithms to map, survey and inventory habitat for the golden-cheeked warbler. The field test will help the Air Force determine if UAS technology can characterize habitat better, faster and cheaper than current methods.

    AFIMSC seeking to transform AF environmental program with latest UAS technology

    The Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center is leveraging the latest unmanned aerial system technology to transform the Air Force environmental program.
  • A screenshot from the Installation Health Assessment tool shows how it can help assess the overall health of various installation and mission support program areas across major commands. This displays performance, funding and risk with trendlines and base reports. Areas indicated in gray are still under development.

    SAF/CO, AFIMSC Enable Readiness Through Cloud-based Visualization Tool

    The AFMISC Innovation Office and the Air Force Chief Data Office successfully built the highly successful Installation Health Assessments using the Tableau visualization tool hosted on the Air Force’s Visible, Accessible, Understandable, Linked, and Trusted, or VAULT, Data Platform. This effort saved the Air Force months of intense labor and provided more accurate and actionable data analysis for Air Force leadership about installation health.
  • A coding team with the Air Force Business Enterprise Systems Directorate discusses a mobile app they are developing for the Air Force during a recent huddle in Atlanta. Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation - or BESPIN – based at the Maxwell Air Force Base Gunter Annex, Alabama, is teaming with the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Innovation Office to develop applications that will help Airmen do their jobs better and stay connected to their military community.

    Alliance improves mission support capabilities

    An alliance between the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center and the Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation office is improving mission support capabilities.
  • SimuRide

    Simulator teaches large vehicle, manual transmission driving

    The SimuRide, the $7,800 driving simulator puts Airmen into the “seat” of a semi-tractor trailer or 44-passenger bus without leaving the office.
  • Elise Kemper, a 2019 Belbrook High School graduate, presents her research poster to Maj. Gen. William T. Cooley, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, at the summer student research poster session Aug. 1. Kemper’s research area this summer was Polymeric Matrix Composites. She will be attending Ohio State University this fall, studying mechanical engineering. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)

    Students showcase innovation research for Air Force at AFRL summer poster session

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – About 70 student researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate displayed their research objectives, efforts and learning experiences at the directorate’s summer student researcher poster session Aug. 1 in the auditorium of Building 653.The students, ranging from
  • One goal of AFRL’s Digital Hangar effort is to research and identify high-value data that need to be maintained, or curated, to produce an enduring set of digital artifacts for aerospace platforms that can be shared with other AFRL researchers, Air Force Service Program Offices, as well as other agencies such as NASA. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Bradley T. Bowman)

    AFRL’s Digital Hangar to support lifecycle management of aerospace systems

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – There is a new hangar under construction at Wright-Patterson AFB, but this one will not be made of steel and concrete, but rather digital ones and zeros.The Air Force Research Laboratory’s “Digital Hangar,” a concept created by Dr. Rick Graves, an Aerospace Research Engineer with the Air Force Research

  • B-1 tool born out of necessity

    Sometimes tasks aren’t chosen, but are instead predestined.Melvin Pruitt, a sheet metal mechanic for the 567th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, said in 2015, he was tasked with repairing the nutplates on the inboard cockpit kick panels for the B-1 bomber. During that process he found that the area was hard to access using the tool provided to secure
  • Innovation showcase

    Eglin showcases its innovation

    AFMC leadership gets hands on view of Eglin's innovative instruments.
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