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AFWERX Refinery program accelerates Airman and Guardian initiatives
U.S. Air Force Airmen receive training for the Laser Foreign Object/Debris detection system at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, Nov. 23, 2021. The LFOD detection system was developed through the partnership between contractors and F-15 Flight Safety NCO Tech. Sgt. Jacob Garcia, who credits the Refinery with the success of the project. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Jacob Wood)
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Take the load off: Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others
Brig. Gen. John Andrus, commander of 711th Human Performance Wing in the Air Force Research Laboratory, pushes a weighted sled while wearing the pneumatically-powered exoskeleton during an AFRL demonstration Oct. 6, 2022, at the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This technology, supported by AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation, was designed to assist aerial porters load and unload heavy cargo and is intended to minimize manpower needed as well as prevent injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick O’Reilly)
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Take the load off: Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others
Brig. Gen. John Andrus, commander of 711th Human Performance Wing in the Air Force Research Laboratory, dons the pneumatically-powered exoskeleton with assistance from Dr. Linus Park with ROAM Robotics during an AFRL demonstration Oct. 6, 2022, at the 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This technology, supported by AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation, was designed to assist aerial porters load and unload heavy cargo and is intended to minimize manpower needed as well as prevent injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick O’Reilly)
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Take the load off: Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others
2nd Lt. Ian Casciola, special warfare electrical engineer with the 711th Human Performance Wing in AFRL, performs a squat while wearing a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton system, developed by ROAM Robotics, during an AFRL demonstration Oct. 6, 2022, at the 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This technology, supported by AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation, was designed to assist aerial porters load and unload heavy cargo and is intended to minimize manpower needed as well as prevent injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick O’Reilly)
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Take the load off: Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others
The pneumatically-powered exoskeleton, developed by ROAM Robotics as part of a Direct to Phase II Small Business Innovation Research grant, is displayed during an Air Force Research Laboratory demonstration Oct. 6, 2022, at the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. This technology, supported by AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation, was designed to assist aerial porters load and unload heavy cargo and is intended to minimize manpower needed as well as prevent injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick O’Reilly)
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Take the load off: Exoskeleton to enhance safety, retention for aerial porters, others
Chief Master Sgt. Sean Storms, aerial port manager with the Air Force Reserve Command’s 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio pushes oversized cargo across the floor of a C-17 Oct. 6, 2022, during an Air Force Research Laboratory demonstration of a pneumatically-powered exoskeleton system developed by ROAM Robotics. This technology, supported by AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation, was designed to assist aerial porters load and unload heavy cargo and is intended to minimize manpower needed as well as prevent injuries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick O’Reilly)
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AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate granted patent for innovative control surfaces technology
AFRL showcases an illustration of the location of morphing control surface on a representative half-span wind tunnel model, Sept. 2, 2021, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This illustration highlights the innovations the Aerospace Systems Directorate team achieved in advancing aileron technologies. (Courtesy Image)
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From left to right, AFRL Vice Commander Col. Paul Henderson, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Chief Scientist Dr. Richard Vaia, and Deputy Director Col. Michael Warner cut the ribbon to open the renovated Materials Characterization Facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)
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Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021’s ceremony was held virtually. Recipients, shown clockwise from upper left, are: Doyle Edwards, Dr. Joey Mead, Dr. Jeremy Ward and Dr. Courtney Taylor. (Photo courtesy of Nextflex)
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Testing done at Wright-Patterson made Perseverance and the search for life on Mars possible
This image taken by NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance shows tracks from the rover’s first drive. It also shows an area that was scoured clean by the craft’s descent stage rockets — the lighter-colored area shown near the center-top. Testing done at AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing ensured the landing craft’s protective coating would survive being blasted by that debris. (Photo courtesy of NASA)
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A gauge stand measures the effect of an explosion during the snow mitigation test on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The foil pieces are used to measure the blast caused by the explosion. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) flight, the Iceman Spark Innovation team, Air Force Reach Laboratory innovation team, and other partners set off an explosion for the EOD snow mitigation test on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The experiment tested the use of snow to mitigate the damaging effects of explosions in an arctic environment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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U.S. Air Force Airmen from the 354th Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Flight prepare bags for the snow mitigation experiment on March 18, 2021, at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska. The experiment tested the use of snow to help mitigate explosive effects. Because of Alaska’s arctic environment, the usual method of using water to reduce blast wave peak pressures is often impractical. Therefore, Icemen Spark and EOD sought to use a more readily available material: snow. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Danielle Sukhlall)
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Diane Buhrmaster, engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, received the 2020 Brigadier General Wilma Vaught Visionary Leadership Award in the Civilian Category. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)
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AFRL researchers demonstrate record-breaking RF isolator performance in ultra-compact device
From the left to right, Drs. Derek A. Bas, Piyush J. Shah and Michael R. Page. In the tweezers, Bas is holding a chip that contains an array of four isolators. A state-of the-art commercial RF isolator has a much greater size and weight than the AFRL device. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dr. Michael Wolf)
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AFRL partners with Cornell to use micro-beam scanning technology for inspecting composite materials
During COVID-19 restrictions, the research team established protocols and routines that allow remote sample manipulation and data acquisition. From left to right: Dr. Hilmar Koerner, Cornell staff scientists Drs. Louisa Smieska and Arthur Woll, and AFRL Materials and Manufacturing research scientists Dr. Edward Trigg and Mr. Andrew Abbott. The black command window with code lines (upper left) shows the UNIX-based software package for instrument control and data collection SPEC. Users can run their own software packages written in the programming language python to position the sample stage and to program automated sample movement. The camera image (AXIS) in upper right shows a close-up of the sample stage in the beamline hutch. While beamline staff mount the samples, everything else is being done remotely from the comfort of either office or home. (Courtesy photo)
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Newly-acquired AFRL test aircraft to aid personnel recovery research
The AFRL LASH Lysander XCub is shown here during a Dec. 21, 2020 stop at the Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport in Greene County, Ohio, on its journey to the AFRL 711th Human Performance Wing’s contracted research flight test organization facility in Maryland. The craft will be used to advance the initial “Lysander” personnel recovery flight experiments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Richard Eldridge)
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Newly-acquired AFRL test aircraft to aid personnel recovery research
On Dec. 21, 2020, The AFRL LASH Lysander XCub stopped at the Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport in Greene County, Ohio, on its journey to the AFRL 711th Human Performance Wing’s contracted research flight test organization facility in Maryland. The craft will be used to advance the initial “Lysander” personnel recovery flight experiments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Richard Eldridge)
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Newly-acquired AFRL test aircraft to aid personnel recovery research
CubCrafters pilot Mark Keneston (left) and Air Force Research Laboratory pilot Dr. Eric Geiselman are pictured next to AFRL LASH Lysander XCub at the Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport in Greene County, Ohio, on Dec. 21, 2020. The aircraft made a brief stop before traveling on to the AFRL 711th Human Performance Wing’s contracted research flight test organization facility in Maryland, where it will be used to advance the initial “Lysander” personnel recovery flight experiments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Dr. Darrel G. Hopper)
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Dr. Richard A. Vaia, Chief Scientist at AFRL's Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2020. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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