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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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AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley to accelerate materials discovery to deployment

Dr. Lisa Rueschhoff, a materials research engineer based in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, delivers a presentation on sintering-assisted additive manufacturing techniques at the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Future, or DMREF, and AFRL 2023 kickoff meeting at the Wright Brothers Institute in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 7, 2023. Rueschhoff has collaborated on a team of researchers from AFRL, San Diego State University and Clemson University to accelerate the transition of new materials from design to deployment in support of the nation’s warfighters over the next four years. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley to accelerate materials discovery to deployment

Dr. Tod Grusenmeyer, a research chemist in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, shares his research team’s plans to accelerate the transition of new materials from design to deployment in support of the nation’s warfighters over the next four years at the National Science Foundation’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Future, or DMREF, and AFRL 2023 kickoff meeting at the Wright Brothers Institute in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 7, 2023. Grusenmeyer, who coordinated crucial event logistics ahead of the kickoff meeting in Dayton, currently serves on an AFRL team that is contributing to warfighting efforts via the NSF DMREF program “Data-Driven Prediction of Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Structures.” The research project team, which features academic contributors from the University of Colorado-Boulder, Duke University and New Mexico Highlands University, is working to develop and leverage a new automation capability to accelerate new material discovery. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley to accelerate materials discovery to deployment

From left: Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Senior Technologist Dr. Ruth Pachter, who currently holds Emeritus status within AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, stands with Dr. John Schlueter, Designing Materials to Revolutionize Our Future, or DMREF program director, and Dr. Richard Vaia, chief scientist in AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at the National Science Foundation’s DMREF-AFRL kickoff at the Wright Brothers Institute in downtown Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 7, 2023. Pachter and Schlueter’s efforts to rethink interagency partnerships were instrumental in connecting the AFRL workforce with the academic community via the DMREF program, Vaia said. Pachter, with her strong background in materials discovery and development, leveraged her expertise to connect members of AFRL’s workforce across multiple directorates to DMREF project teams with overlapping research interests since 2018. In her Emeritus role, Pachter has sustained these efforts to facilitate the translation of materials discovery to deployment in support of DAF needs. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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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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