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AFRL-sponsored science team wins international synthetic biology award for Wright State University

The Wright State University International Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, team attends the annual iGEM Jamboree held in Paris, France, Nov. 2, 2023. The Wright State Team, sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory, took a gold medal at the Jamboree which hosted 4,000 attendees across 400 teams from over 50 countries, according to the organization’s website. The iGEM Competition is a team-based science fair competition for high school, university and post-graduate students focused on using synthetic biology to solve worldwide issues related to health, manufacturing and biotechnology (Courtesy photo / Dr. Madhavi Kadakia).

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AFRL to highlight lab’s efforts to ‘Drive the Future Fight’ at AFA Warfare Symposium

Missile utility transformation via articulated nose technology, or MUTANT, will be featured at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Warfare Symposium Feb. 12-14, 2024, at the Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado. MUTANT is an Air Force Research Laboratory technology that is a form of active morphing involving high-rate pivoting of the missile forebody, referred to as articulation. Articulation is accomplished with an articulation control actuation system, comprised of a composite high-strain skin structure that envelops an internal electromagnetic actuation system. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL to highlight lab’s efforts to ‘Drive the Future Fight’ at AFA Warfare Symposium

Capt. Alicia Houston, flight nurse instructor in the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, directs a team of medics from the ramp of a C-130 as they unload a patient manikin from an AMBUS during deployment training Aug. 12, 2021. En Route Care Training educates and trains total force medical personnel responsible for delivering basic and advanced en route care capabilities within the aeromedical evacuation system. En Route Care Training uses the most advanced modalities and realistic mission environments possible, and provides potent training venues to fulfill clinical currency and readiness skills requirements. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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Battle Sight Technologies’ Director of Product and Technology, Dan Reed, left, and Product Development Engineer, Jesse Tidwell, right, sew materials for a new Battle Sight product in development. Nick Ripplinger, president of Battle Sight Technologies, has served as a U.S. Army soldier where his love for warfighting innovation began. “Battle Sight’s experience working with [Air Force Research Laboratory’s] Small Business Office has been great,” he said. “We continue to work with their Small Business Innovated Research program, which has led to the commercialization of three products currently fielded with the warfighter and a pipeline of over 20 additional products. In addition, AFRL’s Small Business Office has opened doors through connections inside and outside of the organization for us.” (Courtesy photo)

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David Bair, center, senior engineer at Converge Technologies in Hilliard, Ohio, briefs Dr. Aaron Jones, front, president of Raider Technologies, on a radio frequency board layout for a low-cost, size, weight and power, or low C-SWaP, radar prototype at a Converge Technologies lab while Daryl Popig, senior Hardware and Software engineer at Converge Technologies observes. Jones, a previous graduate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Entrepreneur Opportunity Program, described the program as “the most unique technology transition and tech startup opportunity in the country for defense and dual-use companies and one of the top benefits for AFRL scientists and engineers.” Raider Technologies and Converge Technologies are collaborating on an Air Force Small Business Innovation Research topic for low C-SWaP radar for Air Traffic Control and have collaborated with AFRL’s Small Business office. (Courtesy photo)

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AFWERX Challenge participants brainstorm solutions at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2023. AFWERX Challenge is a fast and efficient way to solve a mission-critical problem and create positive impacts for the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jennifer Bryant)

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AFWERX Challenge rapidly brings solutions to the warfighter

Cayley Dymond, left, AFWERX Challenge team lead, introduces the Challenge Learning Lab panelists at Capital Factory in Austin, Texas, Aug. 22, 2023. AFWERX Challenge is a fast and efficient way to solve a mission-critical problem and create positive impacts for the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo / Matthew Clouse)

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AFWERX Year in Review 2023

2023 was a historic year for AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and a directorate within Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Dec. 15, 2023. AFWERX brings cutting edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the DAF. (U.S. Air Force video by Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs)

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AFWERX Spark and other Department of the Air Force innovators gathered Nov. 14-16, 2023, in Moraine, Ohio, to create a curriculum for teaching Airmen and Guardians who want to effectively pitch innovative ideas to high-ranking military officers and civilians. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jennifer Bryant)

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AFWERX Spark, DOD partners train Airmen to pitch ideas with confidence

Anthony "Wedge" Bunker of AFWERX, left, and Shreyas Balaram AFIMSC work with key influencers from AFWERX, SAF/MG, SAF/SSG, AFIMSC, Morpheus, AF Futures and others to develop a cohesive Pitch Coaching curriculum that will be used to help Airmen innovators at every level effectively tell their story. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jennifer Bryant)

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AFWERX Spark, DOD partners train Airmen to pitch ideas with confidence

From left, Jeff Sergent, Air Force Manpower Analysis, Master Sgt. Eric Holton, Maj. Aaron Beebe from AFWERX, and Zachary Griffin, Air Force Special Operations Command master process officer, work with key influencers from AFWERX, SAF/MG, SAF/SSG, AFIMSC, Morpheus, AF Futures and others to develop a cohesive Pitch Coaching curriculum that will be used to help Airmen innovators at every level effectively tell their story. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jennifer Bryant)

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Rapid Dragon top overall winner in Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards

A C-17A conducts a standard cargo airdrop of the Rapid Dragon Palletized Effects Deployment System during an experimentation flight. Rapid Dragon is the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office’s Palletized Effects campaign that explores the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping palletized effects from existing airlift aircraft, such as a C-130 and C-17, without requiring modifications to the aircraft. (Courtesy photo)

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Rapid Dragon top overall winner in Aviation Week Program Excellence Awards

Lockheed Martin’s Dr. Deanelle “Dee” Hidalgo, deputy director, Air-to-Ground Missile Systems/Rapid Dragon, and Dr. Dean Evans of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s, or AFRL, Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Office, or SDPE, are the project managers cited in the Rapid Dragon award. Lockheed Martin and AFRL’s SDPE office, or SDPE, received top honors for the Rapid Dragon Palletized Munitions campaign at the Aviation Week Network 2023 Program Excellence Awards, announced Nov. 8, 2023. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

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Howard University selected to lead 15th University Affiliated Research Center

From left: Mary Nwosu, Earl Tankard Jr. and Joed Ngangmeni work on a small-scale drone and tanker for implementing asynchronous federated learning for collaboration between platforms research Feb. 17, 2023, at the Department of Defense Center of Excellence for artificial intelligence and Machine Learning, or CoE-AIML, at Howard University, Washington, D.C. The DOD announced its selection of Howard University for the science research partnership as part of the 15th University Affiliated Research Center, or UARC. Howard is the first Historically Black College or University to lead a UARC, named Research Institute for Tactical Autonomy, or RITA. (Howard University photo / Dr. Desta Hagos)

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AFWERX accepting applications for spring 2024 fellowship

Chris Heckman, AFWERX fellow, works from home in Huber Heights, Ohio, Dec. 12, 2023. AFWERX fellowships are primarily virtual positions and are designed to cultivate a better understanding of current industry trends, broaden innovation perspectives and expose Airmen and Guardians to programs with a Department of the Air Force level impact. (Courtesy photo)

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AFWERX accepting applications for spring 2024 fellowship

Chris Heckman, left, AFWERX fellow, and his co-workers tour an air traffic control tower during the fall program management review at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, Oct. 26, 2023. AFWERX program management reviews bring a full-time remote organization together for in-person meetings and provide employees opportunities to connect face-to-face. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL provides US with robust future quantum computing, networking capabilities

Air Force Research Laboratory scientists work on various technical platforms to accelerate quantum research and development of connected ultra-secure quantum communication to provide the best benefits to the Department of the Air Force and the warfighter. A researcher at the AFRL Information Directorate is adjusting the Octave Spanning, 5 Femtosecond Ti:sapphire Laser in the Photonics Laboratory for optimal results. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

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New research study could lead to better flu virus protection for warfighters, public

Richard Agans, senior research biologist at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, holds an E. coli culture in the microbiology lab Oct. 6, 2023. USAFSAM is collaborating with Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute on a new research project to develop modified strains of probiotic bacteria to help fight against influenza. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jeremy Dunn)

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New research study could lead to better flu virus protection for warfighters, public

Richard Agans, senior research biologist at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, studies samples in the microbiology lab Nov. 29, 2023. USAFSAM is collaborating with Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute on a new research project to develop modified strains of probiotic bacteria to help fight against influenza. (U.S. Air Force photo / Matt Roberts)

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New research study could lead to better flu virus protection for warfighters, public

Richard Agans, senior research biologist at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, studies samples in the microbiology lab Nov. 29, 2023. USAFSAM is collaborating with Georgia Tech and the Georgia Tech Research Institute on a new research project to develop modified strains of probiotic bacteria to help fight against influenza. (U.S. Air Force photo / Matt Roberts)

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