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AFRL Innovation Awards recognize excellence in tech transfer

Col. Clark Allred, acting director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Directed Energy Directorate presents Dr. Andreas Schmitt-Sody, the Directed Energy Directorate assistant chief scientist, an Innovation Award at the technology transfer awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 20, 2022. AFRL established these awards to recognize and inspire the laboratory’s inventors and collaborators who develop technologies in support of the nation’s defense and whose research promotes the transfer of technology to partners, academia and the private sector. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jeanne Dailey)

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AFRL Innovation Awards recognize excellence in tech transfer

Quentin Dierks, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate chief engineer, presents Dr. Wellesley Pereira, Space Vehicles Directorate senior scientist and mission lead, with a 2022 Innovation Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer at AFRL’s Innovation Awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 20, 2022. AFRL established these awards to recognize and inspire the laboratory’s inventors and collaborators who develop technologies in support of the nation’s defense and whose research promotes the transfer of technology to partners, academia and the private sector. (U.S. Air Force photo / Jeanne Dailey)

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AFRL Innovation Awards recognize excellence in tech transfer

Quentin Dierks, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate chief engineer, presents Dr. Wellesley Pereira, Space Vehicles Directorate senior scientist and mission lead, with a 2022 Innovation Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer at AFRL’s Innovation Awards ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Oct. 20, 2022. AFRL established these awards to recognize and inspire the laboratory’s inventors and collaborators who develop technologies in support of the nation’s defense and whose research promotes the transfer of technology to partners, academia and the private sector. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jeanne Dailey)

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Project Arc team works to make technical Airmen more operationally relevant

Project Arc Engineer 1st Lt. Andrew Foor welds together supporting parts for the hardening of a low-cost threat emitter Oct. 18, 2022, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. Foor, an electrical engineer by trade, worked with his teammate to help Luke Air Force Base modernize its ranges with emerging, high-impact technologies. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Project Arc team works to make technical Airmen more operationally relevant

Project Arc Engineer 2nd Lt. Jacob Geil takes a measurement on the ram air scoop fan assembly Sept. 22, 2022, as part of an initiative to embed engineers at operational wings to solve technical problems. As part of the Project Arc program, Geil and his teammate were stationed at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, for six months to help develop, test and transition Airmen and commercial solutions. (U.S. Air Force photo / Staff Sgt. Christopher Tam)

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Project Arc team works to make technical Airmen more operationally relevant

Project Arc Engineer 1st Lt. Kevin Tran tests an early prototype of a corrosion prevention system for space launch infrastructure Sept. 21, 2022, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Base, Florida. Tran and his teammate were stationed at Cape Canaveral with a mission to test and integrate technologies that will enable assured access to space for the 45th Space Launch Delta. The corrosion prevention tool would save $300K a year at Space Launch delta alone and is currently in the Spark Tank quarterfinals. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFRL celebrates unified science and technology enterprise

Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle and Chief Master Sgt. James “Bill” Fitch, AFRL command chief, cut the cake to celebrate the 25th anniversary of one AFRL at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2022. One AFRL refers to the 1997 coming together of four U.S. Air Force laboratory facilities, then called super labs, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under a unified science and technology organization. (U.S. Air Force photo / Justin Hayward)

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AFRL celebrates unified science and technology enterprise

The Air Force Research Laboratory recognized the 25th anniversary of one AFRL at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2022. One AFRL refers to the 1997 coming together of four U.S. Air Force laboratory facilities, then called super labs, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under a unified science and technology organization. (U.S. Air Force photo / Justin Hayward)

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AFRL’s version of Academy Awards highlights present and past achievements

Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, far left, and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Tim Bunning, far right, pose with the 2022 Early Career Award winners, from left to right, Dr. Nicholas Glavin, Dr. Daniel Dault, Dr. Candice Hatcher-Solis, Dr. Sean McDaniel, Dr. Andrew Metcalf, Dr. Sean Donegan, Dr. Joel Bixler and Dr. Stuart Benton at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Oct. 12, 2022, during the 2022 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards ceremony. The Air Force Research Laboratory honored scientists and engineers for outstanding career accomplishments during this annual event. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

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AFRL’s version of Academy Awards highlights present and past achievements

Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, far left, and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Tim Bunning, far right, pose with the 2022 Fellows, from left to right, Dr. Joseph Mabry, Dr. Jason Parker, Dr. David Mollenhauer, Mr. John Brausch, Dr. Tamara Chelette, Dr. Richard “Andy” McKinley, Dr. Greg Reich and Dr. Ashwani Sharma at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Oct. 12, 2022, during the 2022 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards ceremony. The Air Force Research Laboratory honored scientists and engineers for outstanding career accomplishments during the annual event. One 2022 Fellow, Dr. Dale Ferguson, is not pictured. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

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AFRL upgrades rocket fabrication capabilities

Staff Sgt. Kevin Davis, a machinist with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate, operates one of AFRL’s new computer numerical control milling machines in the rocket fabrication shop at Edwards Air Force Base, California, Sept. 15, 2022. AFRL recently upgraded its fabrication capabilities with 20 new state-of-the-art machines for designing and manufacturing components for liquid rocket engines and solid rocket motors. The new equipment will increase accuracy, improve operator safety and save money. (U.S. Air Force photo / Joy Alich)

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AFRL’s Ascent satellite marks end of mission objectives

Air Force Research Laboratory technicians work on the Ascent spacecraft in the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate’s small satellite laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico in 2021. Ascent, which analyzed the survivability of electronics in geosynchronous Earth orbit, recently completed all its mission objectives and is currently performing extended operations. (U.S. Air Force photo / Capt. Sunderlin Jackson)

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AFRL, New York Air National Guard enter operational research partnership

From left: Lt. Col. Diego Uribe, 152nd Air Operations Group; Brig. Gen. Denise Donnell, New York Air National Guard; and Col. Fred Garcia, Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, celebrate the partnership between their organizations in Rome, New York, Oct. 5, 2022. The new partnership between AFRL and the 152nd AOG will support U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command needs with state-of-the-art machine-intelligence research and enhanced command and control capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo / Albert Santacroce)

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AFRL’s version of Academy Awards to highlight present and past achievements

The winners of the 2022 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Science and Engineering Early Career Awards are, from left to right, top to bottom: Dr. Stuart Benton, Dr. Joel Bixler, Dr. Daniel Dault, Dr. Sean Donegan, Dr. Nicholas Glavin, Dr. Candice Hatcher-Solis, Dr. Sean McDaniel and Dr. Andrew Metcalf. AFRL will honor these professionals for outstanding career accomplishments, Oct. 12, 2022, from 2:30-4 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (Courtesy photo / U.S. Air Force)

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AFRL’s version of Academy Awards to highlight present and past achievements

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Fellows program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers in three categories: research achievements, technology development and transition achievements, or program and organizational leadership. The 2022 AFRL Fellows are, from left to right, top to bottom: Mr. John Brausch, Dr. Tamara Chelette, Dr. Dale Ferguson, Dr. Joe Mabry, Dr. Richard "Andy" McKinley, Dr. David Mollenhauer, Dr. Jason Parker, Dr. Gregory Reich and Dr. Ashwani Sharma. AFRL will honor these professionals for outstanding career accomplishments, Oct. 12, 2022, from 2:30-4 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (Courtesy photo / U.S. Air Force)

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DOD's largest telescope receives mirror recoat, preserves space domain awareness

Workers strip and wash the Advanced Electro-Optical System’s primary mirror at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, Maui, Hawaii, in preparation for a recoat. AMOS is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the AEOS telescope supports the U.S. Space Force with the nation’s space domain mission to operate freely in space. (Courtesy photo / Boeing)

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DOD's largest telescope receives mirror recoat, preserves space domain awareness

The Advanced Electro-Optical System's primary mirror cell, which contains the mirror substrate, moves from its telescope location at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) site, Maui, Hawaii, to the unit's mirror coating facility, where it will undergo a mirror recoating. AMOS is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the AEOS telescope supports the U.S. Space Force with the nation’s space domain mission to operate freely in space. (Courtesy photo / Boeing)

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DOD's largest telescope receives mirror recoat, preserves space domain awareness

The Boeing team poses with the Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS, primary mirror following a recoat at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) site, Maui, Hawaii. This was the second recoat of the mirror since AEOS’s initial installation in 1997. AMOS is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the 3.6-meter AEOS telescope supports the U.S. Space Force’s space domain awareness mission. (Courtesy photo / Boeing)

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DOD's largest telescope receives mirror recoat, preserves space domain awareness

The 3.6-meter, 75-ton Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS. telescope, shown with the mirror recoat team, is the largest optical telescope in the Department of Defense. The mirror received its second recoat since the installation of AEOS at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site in 1997. AMOS is part of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and keeping the mirror in prime condition is key to the U.S. Space Force’s space domain awareness mission. (Courtesy photo / Boeing)

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AFRL professionals share inspirational talks during livestreamed event

Delia Jesaitis, a communications lead action officer, presents a talk on satellite security during AFRL Inspire. The Air Force Research Laboratory hosted this special TEDx-style event at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenney Hall at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 23, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo / Rick Eldridge)

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