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  • As a part of AFWERX, SpaceWERX will play a vital role in pursuing innovative technologies for the United States Space Force. The Department’s newest innovation arm will create platforms for space operators, lab engineers, and acquisition professionals to collaborate with the brightest minds in academia and industry pursuing novel solutions. Moreover, SpaceWERX will continue to leverage proven AFWERX tools such as the SBIR Open Topic, Challenge platform, STRATFI initiative, and Prime program. (Courtesy graphic/AFWERX)

    SpaceWERX launch drives AFWERX small business focus on universities and on-orbit capability

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – On August 19, SpaceWERX will officially launch. The kickoff will include a virtual Space Force Pitch Day highlighting the key partnership between the Department of the Air Force and small businesses by awarding up to $34 million to innovative startups competing for Small Business Innovation Research Phase II
  • A cryogenic refrigerator installed in the Quantum Information and Sciences Laboratory at AFRL’s Information Directorate in Rome, New York. The device is used by AFRL researchers to measure the energy and coherence times of superconducting quantum bits (qubits), two important characteristics that determine how long qubits can retain quantum information. (Courtesy photo)

    Air Force Research Laboratory designated as Quantum Information Science Research Center for U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory is now designated as the Quantum Information Science Research Center for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force. This designation, signed by then Acting Secretary of the Air Force John P. Roth in an April 23 memorandum, gives AFRL the authority to achieve faster
  • The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Chief Scientist’s office developed the Edison Grant program to promote technical proficiency in military members by encouraging research through small, short and rigorous risk-tolerant experiments that create a cross-organizational community and generate new S&T grants and a professional support network. Sixteen Edison Grants totaling $778,000 were awarded during FY21 out of 50 applications received totaling $2.7 million. (Courtesy graphic)

    Edison Grants promote technical proficiency in military members by encouraging research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) – Objective three of the Air Force Science and Technology 2030 Strategy calls to deepen and expand the scientific and technical enterprise across the Department of the Air Force.In fact, according to the strategy, “The Air and Space Force’s scientific and technical workforce is foundational to
  • Field Grade Officers participate in a ceremonial swearing-in event livestreamed Aug. 2 from the Pentagon as Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. Raymond administers the oath of office to more than 700 officers, ceremonially commissioning them into the U.S. Space Force. Locations from across the world participated including this group of FGOs who gathered in the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Kenney Hall at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Keith Lewis)

    Some AFRL Field Grade Officers transfer to U.S. Space Force

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Eleven Field Grade Officers assigned to the Air Force Research Laboratory joined more than 700 Airmen across the nation, ceremonially transferring from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force. All have or will complete separate transfer actions to become official USSF Guardians. As the nation’s
  • Dr. Mark Gruneisen, AFRL Starfire Optical Range senior physicist and quantum communications expert, completed groundbreaking research that coincides with his retirement after 32 years of federal service. (U.S. Air Force photo/2nd Lt. Benjamin Glenn)

    AFRL quantum expert makes groundbreaking advances coinciding with his retirement

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – “The first country to harness the power of quantum networking will achieve technological supremacy,” said Dr. Mark Gruneisen, Air Force Research Laboratory senior research physicist and quantum expert. Gruneisen is the Principle Investigator for Quantum Communications at the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate’s
  • Ten officers from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space and Missile Systems Center space units at Kirtland AFB, N.M. were inducted into the U.S. Space Force in a ceremony held at Kirtland July 23. Maj. Gen. Neil McCasland (USAF Ret.), center, officiated the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Joanne Perkins)

    Space units at Kirtland hold U.S. Space Force induction ceremony

  • Air Force Col. Peter Norton, AFRL Space Electro-Optics Division chief, presents Space Force Lt. Col. Alexander Gruenther a telescope at a transfer of leadership ceremony July 16, held at the Starfire Optical Range located on Kirtland AFB, N.M. Gruenther assumed leadership of the division’s Starfire Optical Range Branch. 2nd Lt. Matthew McVey, center, served as proffer for the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Thomas Dickinson)

    AFRL's Starfire Optical Range holds transfer of leadership ceremony

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate’s Space Electro-Optics Division held a transfer of leadership ceremony here July16. In an outdoor setting at the Terry S. Duncan Space Technology and Research Laboratory, with the division’s Starfire Optical Range telescopes in the background, Lt.
  • The Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate hosted STEM Signing Day for local students virtually, July 30, 2021. AFRL leadership, along with local city leaders, celebrated these students' commitment to STEM. (U.S. Air Force photo screenshot/Rachel Simones)

    AFRL hosts STEM Signing Day for local high school students

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrated Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Signing Day for approximately 40 local students, July 30, during a virtual event. Students from the greater Dayton area that attended AFRL summer internship programs were recognized for

  • AFRL surgeon, principal author on COVID-19 olfactory research

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Col. (Dr.) Michael Xydakis, an otolaryngologist in the Air Force Research Laboratory, along with a multidisciplinary team of world-renown medical experts, authored an article titled "Post-viral effects of COVID-19 in the olfactory system and their implications" published July 30 in The Lancet Neurology. The
  • An artist’s rendering of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s THOR, a drone killer, capable of downing many adversarial drones in fractions of a second. A follow-on system named Mjolnir, the hammer belonging to the mythical Norse God, Thor will soon be under development at AFRL. (Courtesy illustration)

    AFRL’s drone killer, THOR will welcome new drone “hammer”

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate is seeking partners to build a new counter electronics weapon system, to defend against the ever increasing threat of adversarial drone activity. Building upon the success of the Tactical High-Power Operational Responder (THOR) technology
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