Aug. 26, 2024 Strategic improvements unveiled for AFWERX's Open Topic program Members from across AFWERX met in person for a process improvement off-site event to focus on making critical changes to the Open Topic program here June 25-26, 2024. The two-day exercise incorporated AFWERX cross-divisional teams to address the solicitation schedule, automation needs and additional
Aug. 12, 2024 AFWERX cultivates innovation experts through fellowship program; applications accepted through August 16 AFWERX is advancing cross-training for technical experts through its Traditional Fellowship program and is accepting applications for the next cohort through Aug. 16, 2024.
July 19, 2024 AFGSC’s local business partnerships boost DAF technological capabilities, modernization efforts Another win for DAF & American small businesses! To date the partnership between AFGSC and local small businesses have secured contracts totaling $240 million of outside AFGSC funding for 70 modernization technologies from U.S. small businesses, with an additional $74.3 million in pending contracts.
Jan. 4, 2024 AFRL announces record-breaking FY23 small business awards during Small Business Summit Significant funding growth in fiscal year 2023 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, contract awards to the small business sector was announced during the lab’s first enterprise-wide Small Business Summit.
Aug. 17, 2023 AFWERX reaches out to academia for new technologies AFWERX, the innovation arm for the Department of the Air Force, met with entrepreneurs, educators and researchers at a recent Academia Days outreach event in Dayton, Ohio, to hear about their dual-use and defense-specific technologies.
April 25, 2023 Air Force pilots reach new program milestones in electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft Four Air Force pilots remotely flew a Joby electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at the company’s Marina, California, manufacturing facility April 20. They were the first Air Force personnel to assume remote pilot-in-command responsibilities and transition flight for the eVTOL,
Jan. 12, 2023 AFWERX, Army partner in first multiservice contracting sprint The AFWERX contracting team partnered with two Army organizations to execute the first multiservice Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, and Small Business Technology Transfer, or STTR, contracting sprint. The exercise, in which AFWERX partnered with the Army Futures Command, or AFC, and
Oct. 28, 2022 AFTC gains new test capability Members of the 716th Test Squadron and Integrated Analysis Branch of the 804th Test Group of Arnold Engineering Development Complex are advancing the test capabilities available to develop and prove the superiority of those systems needed to meet the demands of the National Defense Strategy with the
July 18, 2022 B-1 training device to get Virtual update Leveraging research and development work done under a Phase II SBIR contract, the Simulators Division B-1 Training Systems team executed a contract modification to update the Cockpit Procedures Trainers with a new device that meets expanded capacities for B-1 aircrew training.
June 15, 2022 Propulsion team continues flow visualization study to save time, money Team members with the 717th Test Squadron, 804th Test Group, Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold Air Force Base are continuing to collect shadowgraph measurements of high sound pressure level nozzle acoustic events to validate computational fluid dynamics, or CFD, prediction methods.To