March 8, 2023 AFRL researchers contribute to prestigious scientific journal ACS Nano A team of Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, researchers partnered with Pennsylvania State University to publish an article in the February 2023 issue of the prestigious scientific journal ACS Nano.
Jan. 20, 2023 AFRL infrastructure projects boost readiness, security While the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is notable for developments inside the lab, a series of projects at AFRL sites across the U.S. is modernizing infrastructure and strengthening science and technology capabilities for national defense. These projects include new rocket fabrication
Jan. 19, 2023 2023 Star Team awards credit two AFRL directorates for innovation The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, announced the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, winners of the 2023 Star Team awards Jan. 11, 2023. The Star Team designation, managed by AFOSR, is awarded annually to the top 10% of AFRL Laboratory Tasks performing the most innovative
Dec. 20, 2022 AFRL division wins award for cold spray robot The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, teamed with the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute to win the Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award at the 2022 Defense Manufacturing Conference for the creation of an augmented reality-enabled cold spray robot, nicknamed
Dec. 14, 2022 AFRL launches wearable biomolecular sensors program for DOD, transfers technology to Sensate Biosystems The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, has partnered with the Nano Bio-Materials Consortium, or NBMC, and Case Western Reserve University to create wearable sensors that measure biomarkers in Airmen and Guardians. The term “biomarker” refers to any physiological or molecular information that
Dec. 12, 2022 Eglin HEXA milestone featured in Around the Air Force In this week’s look around the Air Force, new B-21 Raider long-range bomber rolls out for public view, Airmen fly the HEXA, an electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle, and the Air Force Research Lab is creating a domestic supply of rubber for aircraft tires using dandelions.
Dec. 1, 2022 AFRL accepting applications for fully funded graduate internship program The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is accepting applications now through Jan. 20, 2023, for a fully funded, world-class graduate student internship program here. Applicants must U.S. citizens who are currently enrolled full-time in a graduate-level Master of Science or Ph.D. program at an
Nov. 28, 2022 AFRL teams with industry to expand alternative natural rubber supply The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, launched a multimillion-dollar, multiyear program with BioMADE, Farmed Materials and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 2022 to develop a domestic source of natural rubber from a specific species of dandelion.
Aug. 30, 2022 AFRL experiments with heat flow to manipulate quantum materials The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Nano Electronic Materials Branch, part of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, used heat flow experiments to manipulate quantum materials into functioning in new and different ways at higher temperatures.
Aug. 29, 2022 Student interns present future technologies at AFRL summer poster session Student interns from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate presented their research experiments to the public at the annual morning and afternoon poster sessions Aug. 4, 2022, in the cafetorium of building 653.