Dec. 8, 2021 5 Winners Selected for Dragon's Lair 6 Five servicemembers won the XVIII Airborne Corps Dragon's Lair, Episode 6. The trailblazers created three innovations, which were chosen by a panel of technology experts from across the civilian industry and the Defense Department. In the event’s, first-ever all-service competition, one of the five
Oct. 21, 2021 AFRL team collaborates with partners to build innovative airframe, test in state-of-the-art facility WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Under the Design for Manufacture of Attritable Aircraft Primary Structure (DMAAPS) program, an Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate team of researchers and engineers tested a low cost attritable aircraft fuselage and wings design,
Oct. 7, 2021 Air Force, university scientists share vision for unconventional computing Conventional computing hardware represents information as ones and zeros, depending on the state of electronic transistors. This creates artificial bottlenecks in the flow of information processing by first requiring that environmental loads be converted into an electronic state and second by
Sept. 3, 2021 AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate granted patent for innovative control surfaces technology WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate recently secured a patent for their control surface technology after successfully developing and demonstrating additively manufactured, multi-material conformal control surfaces
Aug. 3, 2021 DOD Official Says U.S. Faces Climate Change Crisis Climate change affects our national security and the Defense Department needs to compete for the energy technologies that will define the future, a senior climate advisor to the secretary of defense said.
July 27, 2021 XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 prepares for transfer to Air Force Museum WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Air Force Research Laboratory engineers prepared the XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 to be transferred to the National Museum of the United States Air Force here June 1.The XQ-58A Valkyrie is a low cost, high performance unmanned air vehicle. Tail #1 was the
June 1, 2021 AFRL Materials Characterization Facility pushes state of the art The Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base recently renovated their materials characterization facility to meet the ever-advancing needs of materials research.
April 21, 2021 AFRL testing made Perseverance, the search for life on Mars possible On February 18, 2021, NASA’s rover Perseverance touched down on the surface of Mars to begin searching for evidence of past life. The success of this touchdown would not have been possible without the work of a team of researchers who operate unique erosion testing equipment in a windowless bunker
April 15, 2021 Team from Air Force Research Lab finds a way to use packaged snow as explosion protection In March 2021, a team from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Junior Force Warfighter Operations in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate (designated “JFWORX”) led a collaborative, live-fire test with explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron at Eielson
April 11, 2021 New ‘Air Force Review Boards Agency’ website launched The Department of the Air Force debuted a new website for past and present Airmen and Guardians to correct their military records, April 5.