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AFRL scientists, engineers promote STEM careers at WPAFB Spring Job Shadow Day

Students visiting Wright-Patterson Air Force base March 11, 2024, for the base’s spring Job Shadow Day had the opportunity to tour a Headquarters Flight Test Operations facility, where participating mentors demonstrated how small, Unmanned Aircraft Systems such as Raytheon’s Silver Fox, the Bix3 and DJI S1000 Panini (pictured) are used by AFRL’s Sensors Directorate when flight-testing sensors. WPAFB’s Educational Outreach Office offers two job shadow days per year every spring and fall to high school juniors and seniors in an effort to showcase and promote STEM- and non-STEM-related career opportunities on base. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL scientists, engineers promote STEM careers at WPAFB Spring Job Shadow Day

Students visiting the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate as part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s spring Job Shadow Day March 11, 2024, got a closer look at the world of non-destructive inspection, and a better understanding of how robots like Boston Dynamic’s SPOT are being integrated into that work. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Educational Outreach Office offers two job shadow days per year to high school juniors and seniors every spring and fall, in an effort to showcase and promote STEM- and non-STEM-related career opportunities on base. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL honors its newest senior scientist at induction ceremony

Darrell Phillipson, director of AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, presents Dr. Mark Benedict with the senior executive pin during a ceremony to mark his induction into the Scientific and Professional Cadre of Senior Executives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 9, 2024. Benedict officially accepted the role of senior scientist for convergent (digital) manufacturing at the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate in February. U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez

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AFRL honors its newest senior scientist at induction ceremony

Air Force Research Laboratory Executive Director Timothy Sakulich publicly administers the oath of office to Dr. Mark Benedict at a ceremony to mark his induction into the Scientific and Professional Cadre of Senior Executives at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 9, 2024. Benedict officially accepted the role of senior scientist for convergent (digital) manufacturing at AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate in February. U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez

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AFRL Future Flag series grows in scope, size with new funding, alliances

The Army's 10th Mountain Division's Division Artillery Commander, Col. Thomas Goettke, became the first signatory of the Northeast Multi-Domain Operations Alliance, or NEMDO Alliance April 22, 2024, in Rome, N.Y. The Air Force Research Laboratory's Information Directorate is organizing an event called Future Flag in upstate New York in summer 2024. The event is aimed at accelerating the fielding of new military technologies and aircraft for the warfighter. Around 150 participants from various United States military branches will attend. (U.S. Air Force photo / Albert Santacroce)

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AFRL enhances workforce through STEM outreach programs

Wanjiku (Ciku) Makumi greets fellow Air Force Research Laboratory Scholars at the 2023 AFRL Scholar Orientation hosted by AFRL’s Munitions Directorate at the Doolittle Institute in Niceville, Florida, June 5, 2023. The AFRL Scholars Program is a paid internship program designed for students pursuing graduate level STEM degrees and offers immersive, hands-on experiences in the field under the mentorship of AFRL subject matter experts. (U.S. Air Force photo / Chris Quinlin)

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AFRL engineer to be recognized at ASME national meeting

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME, will recognize Dr. Ajit Roy, a senior materials engineer with the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, with the John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace at their national meeting April 30, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo / Terrance Auster)

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AFRL researchers pave the way to lighter, faster additively manufactured rocket engines

Edgar Felix, Lead Investigator, front and Isaiah Jaramillo, Mechanical Specialist, work on the first-ever, single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber additively manufactured using a process called laser powder directed energy deposition, or DED. DED is an additive manufacturing process in which the device injects metal powder into focused beams of high-power laser in highly controlled atmospheric conditions (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL researchers pave the way to lighter, faster additively manufactured rocket engines

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Rocket Propulsion Division, recently designed, printed, built and hot fired a first-ever, single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber additively manufactured using a process called laser powder directed energy deposition, or DED. DED is an additive manufacturing process in which the device injects metal powder into focused beams of high-power laser in highly controlled atmospheric conditions. The Hotfire of the thrust chamber is shown in the Experimental Cell 1 (EC-1) at the AFRL Rocket Lab. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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SpaceWERX, Aerospace Corporation collaborate to guide technologies through the 'Valley of Death'

U.S. Space Force Capt. Jeremy Swaw, SpaceWERX Spark lead, gets a technology demonstration from an attendee at Space Symposium at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 11, 2024. As the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, SpaceWERX inspires and empowers collaboration with innovators to accelerate capabilities and shape our future in space. Since it was aligned under AFRL in Aug. 2021, SpaceWERX has executed 906 contracts worth more than $690 million to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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The SpaceWERX team poses for a picture at their Space Symposium booth at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 10, 2024. As the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, SpaceWERX inspires and empowers collaboration with innovators to accelerate capabilities and shape the future of space. Since it was aligned under AFRL in August 2021, SpaceWERX has executed 906 contracts worth more than $690 million to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. (U.S. Air Force photo / Matthew Clouse)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, scientists and engineers along with U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School students prepare for the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system to be flight tested on an F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 12, 2024. An AFRL team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. The system has helmet-based, base layer and life-support sensors, ensuring holistic information on the pilot and operating environment during flight. (U.S. Air Force photo / Wei Lee)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School students prepare to flight test the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system on an F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 12, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. The system has helmet-based, base layer and life- support sensors, ensuring holistic information on the pilot and operating environment during flight. (U.S. Air Force photo / Ethan Blackford)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School students prepare to flight test the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system on an F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 12, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. The system has helmet-based, base layer and life- support sensors, ensuring holistic information on the pilot and operating environment during flight. (U.S. Air Force photo / Wei Lee)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, scientists and engineers prepare to watch U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School students test the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system on an F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, California, March 12, 2024. An AFRL team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. The system has helmet-based, base layer and life-support sensors, ensuring holistic information on the pilot and operating environment during flight. (U.S. Air Force photo / Wei Lee)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

From left: Ethan Blackford, program manager and engineer, BAE Systems; Lt. Col. Joshua Arnall, director of operations, 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron; and Alexis McConnell, research biomedical engineer, Air Force Research Laboratory; discuss the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system prior to flight testing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

An Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system with base layer sensors prepares for flight testing with the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Joshua Arnall, director of operations, 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron, adjusts the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system prior to flight testing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Joshua Arnall, director of operations, 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron, adjusts the Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system prior to flight tests on an F-16 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

An Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system with helmet-based, base layer and life-support sensors is examined prior to flight testing with the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 2024. An Air Force Research Laboratory team developed the ICS system to provide an airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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