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  • AFRL’s SHiELD set to receive critical assembly

    KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) Program is scheduled to receive the first major assembly of its three main subsystems later this month, with the remaining two subsystems set to

  • AFRL scientist named national society fellow

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Brian Simpson, a research psychologist who specializes in auditory perception in the Air Force Research Laboratory, has been selected as a fellow by the Acoustical Society of America.Dr. Rajesh Naik, chief scientist of AFRL's 711th Human Performance Wing

  • Maui sees first U.S. Space Force officers sworn in

    MAUI, Hawaii – (AFRL) Six officers assigned to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site joined more than 2,400 Airmen across the nation, transferring from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force, making them the first Space

  • AFRL officers transfer to U.S. Space Force in historic ceremony

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Joining more than 2,400 Airmen across the nation, 13 Air Force Research Laboratory officers took the oath of office Feb. 1, transferring from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force, in an induction ceremony held at Kirtland Air Force Base. Col. Eric Felt, director

  • AFRL STEM Academy continues hands-on learning during pandemic

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM outreach program STEM Academy has started off the new year by distributing learning packets for homeschooled students around the Albuquerque community. Since the beginning of the pandemic, STEM Academy has taken a novel

  • AFRL engineer earns lifetime achievement award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Robert “Bob” Mercier, a chief engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, earned the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force Airbreathing Propulsion Subcommittee Lifetime Achievement Award, Dec. 8, 2020 during a virtual awards

  • AFRL Sensors Directorate launches series of virtual courses

    The AFRL Sensors Directorate Learning Office recently launched a quarterly “Lunch and Learn” series of virtual courses to provide military, civilian and contractor employees the opportunity to further their professional development.

  • AFRL holds new directed energy wargaming event

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate recently held its newest wargaming, modeling and simulation event at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEUCE, under the leadership of the directorate’s wargaming

 
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