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AFRL Munitions Directorate fuels ‘Engine to Accelerate’ with induction of new commander

Col. Matthew Caspers assumes command of the Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate June 28, 2024, at a change of command ceremony at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. AFRL Commander Gen. Scott A. Cain officially inducted Caspers as the directorate’s new commander and director. “Right now, my top priority is getting to know the organization and the people doing the amazing work here at RW,” Caspers said. (Courtesy photo / Brian Mitchell)

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AFRL, University of Texas – Arlington collaboration yields break-through in thin film technology

From left: University of Texas in Arlington, or UT Arlington, team members Dr. Stathis Meletis, Dr. Jiechao Jiang, Enrique Ramirez, Dr. Joseph Ngai and Nonso Martin Chetuya gather for a photo at UT Arlington May 16, 2024 to celebrate the successful conclusion to a collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate. The collaboration was made possible through the Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program and resulted in a significant breakthrough in the development of thin film technology, as a potential lower-cost alternative to be used in infrared light detection. (Courtesy photo / Dr. Yi Shen)

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AFRL opens International Center at Rice University

Representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Rice University in Houston, Texas, break for lunch during the kick-off meeting for the new International Research Innovation in Nanotechnology Center, May 9, 2024. The center is part of collaborative effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rice University, India’s Defense Research Development Organization and the Indian Institute of Technology that seeks to strengthen U.S. scientific and manufacturing ties with India as well as increase availability of rare nanomaterials technology. (Courtesy photo / Vinod Veedu)

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AFRL opens International Center at Rice University

Dr. Sohini Bhattacharyya, second from left, a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University’s Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, discusses research activity on the processing approaches for two-dimensional nano-materials growth with researchers and students May 9, 2024, at the new International Research Innovation in Nanotechnology, or RISING Center at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The RISING Center, which opened May 9, 2024, is part of collaborative effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rice University, India’s Defense Research Development Organization and the Indian Institute of Technology that seeks to strengthen U.S. scientific and manufacturing ties with India, as well as increase availability of rare nanomaterials technology. (Courtesy photo / Becca Zietler)

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Official potrait

This is the official portrait of Erin N. Pettyjohn.

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman, right, assumes command of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, in a formal change of command ceremony with 711th Human Performance Wing, or 711HPW, Commander Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Robert K. Bogart, left, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 2, 2024. USAFSAM, the premier institute for education and worldwide consultation in Aerospace and Operational Medicine, is one of two mission units that comprises the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711HPW. Prior to assuming command of USAFSAM, Speakman served as the commander and Military Treatment Facility director of the 71st Medical Group at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma, where he oversaw the execution of a $6.1 million budget and provision of health care and preventive health services for the 71st Flying Training Wing, Undergraduate Pilot Training students and 3,900 Vance Air Force Base community beneficiaries. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

711th Human Performance Wing Commander Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Robert K. Bogart, far left, applauds as Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman, middle, is formally announced as the Commander of the United States School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, at a Change of Command ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 3, 2024, while outgoing USAFSAM Commander Col. (Dr.) Tory Woodard, right, stands alongside Speakman to signify his relinquishment of duty as USAFSAM Commander. “You are taking over an incredible organization filled with extraordinary talents and dedication across the range of military, civilian and support personnel,” Woodard said to Speakman at the ceremony. “You're the perfect person to take this position; I know you’ll do well.” (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, Commander Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman addresses a crowd of family, friends and colleagues at a Change of Command ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 2, 2024, immediately following his assumption of duties as commander. “At this schoolhouse . . . we will research, we will educate and we will consult and lead the Air Force with integrated operational medical capability development,” Speakman said. “We will dream more. We will learn more, do more and, finally, become more together. It’s my promise to you,” he added. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman, center, assumes command of the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, in a formal change of command ceremony with 711th Human Performance Wing Commander Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Robert K. Bogart, left, as outgoing USAFSAM Commander Col. (Dr.) Tory Woodard, right, looks on at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 2, 2024. Speakman took the reins from Woodard, who has served as USAFSAM’s commander since July 2021 and will serve next as deputy command surgeon for the Air Force Materiel Command. “Colonel Speakman, you are taking command of an incredibly unique, complex, operationally engaged and extremely relevant organization,” Bogart said at the ceremony. “I know that you will do an incredible job leading USAFSAM.” (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

711th Human Performance Wing Commander Brig. Gen. (Dr.) Robert K. Bogart addresses a crowd of friends, family, colleagues, enlisted military and civilians at the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, Change of Command Ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 2, 2024, while outgoing USAFSAM Commander Col. (Dr.) Tory Woodard and incoming USAFSAM Commander Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman observe. Speakman took the reins from Woodard, who has served as USAFSAM’s Commander since 2021. Speakman, a medical doctor and chief flight surgeon who has logged more than 775 flight hours — including 147 combat hours — in 16 different aircraft, was commissioned into the Air Force in 2002. He graduated medical school in 2006, after which he completed residencies in family and aerospace medicines and obtained a Master of Public Health degree. “You are a proven leader and I know you will continue this at USAFSAM as you further it on its journey; your skills are needed,” Bogart said to Speakman at the ceremony. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing welcomes 39th USAFSAM commander

United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, Commander Col. (Dr.) Richard O. Speakman stands for a family photo with his spouse and four children shortly after assuming official command of USAFSAM at a ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, July 2, 2024. In his first remarks as USAFSAM’s newest commander, Speakman thanked his family for their support, service and patriotism. “There is a cost to service,” Speakman said, addressing his family, “and I don't forget that, together, we serve as Team Speakman.” (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

2024 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Commander’s Challenge competitors gather for a group photo with their program manager, team mentors and other supporting staff at a kickoff event held at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. Nineteen individuals representing eight of AFRL’s technical and functional directorates, the 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have been selected to serve on one of two teams in response to AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Scott A. Cain’s March 2024 call for contenders in this year’s competition to develop low-cost solutions to counter and defeat slow-moving, high-altitude balloons. (U.S. Air Force photo / Gail L. Forbes)

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

A group of 2024 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Commander’s Challenge competitors from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., gather for a team photo at a kickoff event held at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. The seven competitors and their three mentors, representing AFRL’s Directed Energy and Munitions directorates, answered AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Scott A. Cain’s March 2024 call for contenders in this year’s competition. With just six months and a $75,000 budget, the Eglin-Kirtland team will develop and deliver low-cost solutions to counter slow-moving, high-altitude aerial targets. They will face off with a Wright-Patterson Air Force Base-based team in a final competition in December, where they will demonstrate and test their proposed solutions before a panel of judges. (U.S. Air Force photo / Gail L. Forbes)

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

A group of 2024 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Commander’s Challenge competitors from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, gather for a team photo at a kickoff event held at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. The team, consisting of seven competitors and two mentors, represents AFRL’s Aerospace Systems, Headquarters, Materials and Manufacturing, Plans and Programs and Sensors directorates, AFRL’s 711th Human Performance Wing and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, and answered AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Scott A. Cain’s March 2024 call for contenders in this year’s Commander’s Challenge competition. With just six months and a $75,000 budget, the Wright-Patterson team will develop and deliver low-cost solutions to counter slow-moving, high-altitude aerial targets. They will face off with a team of friendly rivals from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., in a final competition in December, where both teams will demonstrate and test their proposed solutions before a panel of judges. (U.S. Air Force photo / Gail L. Forbes)

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

Four 2024 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Commander’s Challenge team members from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, work together to complete an innovation design brainstorming exercise in a breakout room at a kickoff event held at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. The Wright-Patterson-based team, representing multiple AFRL directorates and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, answered AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Scott A. Cain’s March 2024 call for contenders in this year’s competition to develop and deliver low-cost solutions to counter and defeat slow-moving, high-altitude aerial targets. (U.S. Air Force photo / Gail L. Forbes).

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

2024 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Commander’s Challenge competitors from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., complete an innovation design brainstorming exercise in a breakout room at a kickoff event held at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. The Eglin-Kirtland team, representing AFRL’s Directed Energy and Munitions directorates, answered AFRL Commander Maj. Gen. Scott A. Cain’s March 2024 call for contenders in this year’s competition to develop and deliver low-cost solutions to counter and defeat slow-moving, high-altitude aerial targets. (U.S. Air Force photo / Gail L. Forbes)

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AFRL Commander’s Challenge kicks off; 2 teams entrusted to deliver low-cost solutions by year’s end

Dr. Kris Wood, senior associate dean for Innovation and Engagement at the University of Colorado-Denver, co-teaches a design innovation workshop with his longtime colleague and friend Dr. Dan Jensen, a founding faculty member at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif., at the 2024 AFRL Commander’s Challenge kickoff event at the Wright Brothers Institute in Dayton, Ohio, May 17, 2024. Wood and Jensen, who have co-led the workshop for Challenge participants since 2002, utilize a problem-solving methodology that examines the impact of products and technologies on end users. This year, they were able to return as instructors for the first time since 2019, following a forced five-year event hiatus due to COVID-19 challenges. “The answer to [innovation] is here, in these amazing, talented individuals who come together as a team and then take their passion and map it into something that’s going to be important and impactful for AFRL,” Wood said. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration / Gail L. Forbes)

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AFRL recognizes 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM at annual awards event

Col. Jeremy Raley, director of AFRL’s Space Vehicles Directorate speaks to Tech Engagement Office leadership and STEM Award winners at the 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Awards ceremony held at Q Station, AFRL’s Tech Engagement Office’s collaborative facility, Albuquerque, N.M., June 21, 2024. The AFRL-sponsored event recognizes significant science, technology, engineering and math education endeavors throughout the state. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL recognizes 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM at annual awards event

Gabe Mounce, director AFRL Tech Engagement Office, awards Dr. Spencer Olson, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate Tech Engagement Office, the inaugural AFRL Mentor of the Year Award at the 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Awards ceremony, Q Station, AFRL’s Tech Engagement Office’s collaborative facility, Albuquerque, N.M., June 21, 2024. The award was given to Olson as a cumulative recognition to the value of his work with the AFRL Scholars program since 2013. The AFRL-sponsored event recognizes significant science, technology, engineering and math education endeavors throughout the state. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL recognizes 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM at annual awards event

Gabe Mounce, director of the AFRL Tech Engagement Office, speaks to Tech Engagement Office leadership and STEM Award winners at the 2024 New Mexico Excellence in STEM Awards ceremony held at Q Station, AFRL’s Tech Engagement Office’s collaborative facility, Albuquerque, N.M., June 21, 2024. The AFRL-sponsored event recognizes significant science, technology, engineering and math education endeavors throughout the state. (Courtesy photo)

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