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AFRL to highlight tech to ‘achieve decisive advantage in an age of growing threats’ at 2024 Air, Space and Cyber Conference

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, XQ-67A Off Board Sensing Station uncrewed air vehicle, designed and built by General Atomics, takes its maiden flight Feb. 28, 2024, from Gray Butte Field Airport in Palmdale, California. The XQ-67A’s first flight was made possible due in large part to Low Cost Attritable Aircraft Platform Sharing, or LCAAPS, which AFRL will showcase at its “Engine to Accelerate” booths at the 2024 Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference Sept. 16-18, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. LCAAPS leverages best practices of consumer industries to rapidly develop and build autonomous collaborative platforms in large numbers, with the goal of achieving affordable mass by streamlining the design and development process. The XQ-67A, the first of a second generation of autonomous collaborative platforms, proves the feasibility of this approach and demonstrates how wholly new acquisition processes can deliver capability to the warfighter more quickly and efficiently. (Courtesy photo)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

From left: Andrew Bowman, on-site researcher with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Manufacturing Research Team, or DMRT, and Yash Kakade, a DMRT summer intern, demonstrate the motion capture system in the newly opened Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base following a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

From left: Darrell Phillipson, director, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate; Dr. Sean Donegan, Digital Manufacturing Research Team lead; Timothy Sakulich, AFRL executive director; and Dr. Charles Ormsby, Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy division chief observe as Boston Dynamics robot Astro cuts a ceremonial ribbon, officially opening the new Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, July 23, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Manufacturing Research Team celebrates the official opening of the new Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. This is the team’s first internal laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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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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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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University of Dayton Research Institute Mechanical Engineer Jason Adams works on the Heavy Lift Kit, or HLK, which is a solution that the Air Force Research Laboratory Center for Rapid Innovation devised to allow the bags to be quickly deflated in contested environments at the Wright Brothers Institute Proving Ground Facility on May 21, 2024. Rescue workers can use the pairs of HLK inflatable bags to lift as much as 45,000 pounds. (Air Force photo / Patrick Foose)

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From left: Wright Brothers Institute Computer and Electronics Engineer Claud Nichol, University of Dayton Research Institute Mechanical Engineer Jason Adams and Air Force Research Laboratory Center for Rapid Innovation Mechanical Engineer John “J.D.” Bales, stand with a heavy lift kit, or HLK, which they modified to allow the bags to be deflated more quickly in dangerous environments at the Wright Brothers Institute Proving Ground Facility on May 21, 2024. The Heavy Lift Kit can be used by first responders to lift objects weighing as much as 45,000 pounds using two inflatable bags. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick Foose).

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From left: Wright Brothers Institute Computer and Electronics Engineer Claud Nichol, University of Dayton Research Institute Mechanical Engineer Jason Adams and Air Force Research Laboratory Center for Rapid Innovation Mechanical Engineer John “J.D.” Bales, stand with a heavy lift kit, or HLK, which they modified to allow the bags to be deflated more quickly in dangerous environments at the Wright Brothers Institute Proving Ground Facility on May 21, 2024. The Heavy Lift Kit can be used by first responders to lift objects weighing as much as 45,000 pounds using two inflatable bags. (U.S. Air Force photo / Patrick Foose).

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AFRL equipment donation helps prepare emerging STEM workforce

From left: Miami University students Carter Wade, Lakshan Don Manuwelge Don, Nate Price and Dr. Joseph Perry Corbett, test the newly installed ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on, May 30, 2024. The microscope was donated by the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate to the Corbett Research Group as part of a recently signed Educational Partnership Agreement with Miami University. Corbett, who leads the group, is an assistant professor of physics at Miami University, and is a former AFRL materials research scientist. (Courtesy photo / Rannet Manning)

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C-STARS simulation center aims to modernize training, strengthen community partnerships

Dr. Timothy Pritts, left, chief of Trauma Critical Care and General Surgery and a trauma surgeon at the University of Cincinnati and UC Health, and Col. Richard Strilka, Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, Cincinnati, research director, stand in the simulated Surgical Intensive Care Unit, or SICU, military aircraft room in the SICU at UC Medical Center – Cincinnati, Feb. 24, 2023. The Air Force’s 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, partnered with the University of Cincinnati to develop a state-of-the art simulation center for the Critical Care Air Transport team at the Center for Sustainment of Trauma Readiness at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, in order to modernize training and strengthen community partnerships. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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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 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-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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