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AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

An Integrated Cockpit Sensing, or ICS, system with helmet-based, base layer and life-support sensors prepares for flight testing with the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Jan. 30, 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. (U.S. Air Force photo / Senior Airman Megan Estrada)

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University students to present new aerospace propulsion concepts at Air Force Museum

Display model of a turbine engine project from the 2023 Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program, or APOP, symposium, April 13, 2023. APOP will hold its annual poster session at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, April 17, 2025, from noon to 3 p.m. APOP is a partnered outreach program for young engineers entering the workforce that offers opportunities to work with Air Force engineers. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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University students to present new aerospace propulsion concepts at Air Force Museum

Display model of a turbine engine project from last year’s Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program, or APOP, symposium, April 13, 2023. APOP will hold its annual poster session at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, April 19, 2024, from noon to 3 p.m. APOP is a partnered outreach program for young engineers entering the workforce that offers opportunities to work with Air Force engineers. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Depot level aircraft maintenance has overhauled training with adoption of Virtual Reality, implementing VR Classrooms & Virtual Paint Booth

John Sowder, Chief of Maintenance Training Instruction, demonstrates the Ogden Air Logistics Complex Training Branch’s virtual reality training program in a state-of-the-art immersive classroom Feb. 12, 2024, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. This innovative program within the Ogden ALC caters to both new hires and veteran workforce. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Cromar)

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AFRL receives $4M grant to build Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Center

This rendering shows the location of the new AIMR-2C, or Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Research Center Capability Project, adjacent to the main entrance of building 653 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The AIMR-2C will be a 6,000-square-foot lab space dedicated to interactive data visualization which was made possible by a $4 million Office of Secretary of Defense Centralized Laboratory Investment Program award. (U.S. Air Force illustration)

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AFRL revives Scanning Electron Microscope Educators program

Students from Baker Middle School in Fairborn, Ohio, learn about and use a scanning electron microscope, or SEM, as part of the Scanning Electron Microscope Educators, or SEMEDS, program at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio. The after-school program gives area middle and high school students a rare opportunity to experience firsthand what it's like to use a $500,000 SEM to explore a wide-variety of unique and everyday specimens. The program was recently revived after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (U.S. Air Force photo / Terrance Auster)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

Representatives from AFRL, Georgia Tech, University of Hawaii, Schafer, Boeing and volunteer scientists gather around the Aloha Explorations outreach telescope for an opening ceremony and dedication of at the AFRL Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, August 6, 2013. From the annual conference, a team of volunteer scientists, some from NASA and some from AFRL, physically lift the dome for transport to the dedicated AFRL site. (Courtesy photo / James Sowell)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

At the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site located at Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, the 11-inch diameter telescope in its clam-shell dome donated for science, technology, engineering and math outreach. From the annual conference, a team of volunteer scientists, some from NASA and some from AFRL, physically lift the dome for transport to the dedicated AFRL site. (U.S. Air Force photo / Shadi Naderi)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

A live image from AllSkyImage, the software used for the Aloha Telescope showing clear skies over Kihei, Maui, Hawaii, May 5, 2017. The telescope in Maui was accessed during school hours to allow Georgia teachers and students the opportunity to experience real-time views of the night sky right from their classrooms during the daytime via internet connection. (Courtesy photo / James Sowell)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

Students at Lanier middle school in Sugar Hill, Georgia, view the Aloha telescope dome in their cafeteria during school hours. The STEM outreach project involving the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Hawaii encourages grade school- to university-level students to learn more about astronomy and explore the different career paths science, technology, engineering and math has to offer. (Courtesy photo / James Sowell)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

Aloha Explorations uses an 11-inch Celestron telescope, also known as the Aloha Telescope, to provide students in grades K-12 the ability to view live images from their classrooms and remotely control the telescope via an internet connection. Most of the telescopes at the AMOS site are positioned at 10,000 feet on the summit of the dormant volcano Haleakala and are used for research and development for space domain awareness. The smaller outreach telescope is much more convenient for the students in Maui to access and learn more about astronomy. (U.S. Air Force photo / Shadi Naderi)

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AFRL’s Aloha Telescope celebrates 10-year anniversary empowering students through outreach

From left: Dr. Shadi Naderi, Air Force Research Laboratory research scientist and STEM technical lead; Capt. Charles Schramka, Air Force Research Laboratory research scientist; Scott Hunt, technical director for the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate and 15th Space Surveillance Squadron; and Maj. Keegan McCoy, research flight commander for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate and 15th Space Surveillance Squadron, stand in front of the Aloha telescope in commemoration of the outreach program’s 10-year anniversary, March 29, 2024.The astronomy outreach program has reached 6,000 students and 175 teachers over the last two years with the capability to view the moon and other objects in space. (U.S. Air Force photo / Shadi Naderi)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

From left: Dominick Fasulo, BAE facilities specialist; Chuck Dahl, BAE electrical engineer; Debashis Satpathi, Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II, program manager; and Ian Lee, GRAILE-II technical lead at BAE Systems, before transporting GRAILE-II to the Air Force Research Laboratory for system acceptance, ‎Feb. ‎27, ‎2024. The GRAILE-II diagnostic system will be used to validate the performance of the Department of Defense’s most powerful high-energy laser systems. (Courtesy photo / Gina Schreiner)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

Ian Lee, left, BAE Systems Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II technical lead and Joseph Cox, center, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, directed energy directorate’s GRAILE-II technical lead, prepare to clean GRAILE-II’s internal optical components while 2nd Lt. Carson McLaughlin, right, AFRL Directed Energy Directorate research physicist, prepares the cleaning apparatus, Feb. ‎27, ‎2024. The GRAILE-II diagnostic system will be used to validate the performance of the Department of Defense’s most powerful high-energy laser systems. (Courtesy photo / Jason Lu)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

Ian Lee, BAE Systems Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II technical lead opens the GRAILE-II enclosure in preparation for system cleaning and alignment ‎Feb. ‎27, ‎2024, at at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base N.M. The GRAILE-II diagnostic system will be used to validate the performance of the Department of Defense’s most powerful high-energy laser systems. (Courtesy photo / Jason Lu)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

Ian Lee, BAE Systems Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II technical lead at BAE Systems and 2nd Lt. Carson McLaughlin Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Directed Energy Directorate research physicist, validate GRAILE-II’s functionality using the computer interface ‎Feb. ‎27, ‎2024, at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base N.M. GRAILE-II is the result of collaborative efforts between the AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate; Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Test Resource Management Center; Army Program Executive Officer Simulation, Training and Instrumentation; and BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems, Inc. (Courtesy photo / Jason Lu)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

Ian Lee, BAE Systems Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II technical lead at BAE Systems, and 2nd Lt. Carson McLaughlin Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Directed Energy Directorate research physicist, pose for a photo while discussing the GRAILE-II validation process ‎Feb. ‎27, ‎2024, at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base N.M, GRAILE-II is the result of collaborative efforts between the AFRL Directed Energy Directorate; Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Test Resource Management Center; Army Program Executive Officer Simulation, Training and Instrumentation; and BAE Systems Space and Mission Systems, Inc. (Courtesy photo / Jason Lu)

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New diagnostic system to validate high-power laser weapon performance

Carson McLaughlin, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Directed Energy Directorate research physicist, validates the Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II’s optical alignment in preparation for acceptance testing at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base N.M., ‎Feb. ‎27, ‎2024. The GRAILE-II diagnostic system will be used to validate the performance of the Department of Defense’s most powerful high-energy laser systems. (Courtesy photo / Jason Lu)

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The newly appointed Director of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Dr. Kevin Geiss, arrives in Arlington, Va., for a day of immersion briefings at AFOSR on March 12, 2024. Dr. Geiss comes to AFOSR with many years of experience leading multiple Department of the Air Force and Department of Defense Science and Technology organizations. (U.S. Air Force Photo / Cherie Cullen)

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VENOM arrives

The 96th Test Wing and 53rd Wing welcomed the first three F-16 Fighting Falcons ready to take part in the Viper Experimentation and Next-gen Operations Model – Autonomy Flying Testbed program also known as VENOM. (U.S. Air Force photo by David Shelikoff)

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