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Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, and John Maffei, the FAA’s acting director of Portfolio Management and Technology Development, sign the AFWERX and Federal Aviation Administration Memorandum of Understanding at Duke Field, Florida, Oct. 25, 2023. AFWERX and the FAA announced they have agreed to share flight-test data to accelerate the safe integration of Advanced Aircraft Mobility platforms into the National Airspace System. The MOU will also support AFWERX Prime’s efforts to advance the integration and maturation of AAM, including the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and autonomous systems industries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, and John Maffei, the FAA’s acting director of Portfolio Management and Technology Development, sign the AFWERX and Federal Aviation Administration Memorandum of Understanding at Duke Field, Florida, Oct. 25, 2023. AFWERX and the FAA announced they have agreed to share flight-test data to accelerate the safe integration of Advanced Aircraft Mobility platforms into the National Airspace System. The MOU will also support AFWERX Prime’s efforts to advance the integration and maturation of AAM, including the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and autonomous systems industries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, gives remarks at the AFWERX and Federal Aviation Administration Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony at Duke Field, Florida, Oct. 25, 2023. AFWERX and the FAA announced they have agreed to share flight-test data to accelerate the safe integration of Advanced Aircraft Mobility platforms into the National Airspace System. The MOU will also support AFWERX Prime’s efforts to advance the integration and maturation of AAM, including the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft and autonomous systems industries. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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Summer Hackathon

Members of 96th Test Wing and AFWERX leadership cut the ribbon on the first-ever innovation incubator Oct. 25 at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. The incubator, located at the base library, is a space to foster innovation, creativity, and collaboration amongst military personnel, academia, non-profit organizations, etc,. (U.S. Air Force photo/Samuel King Jr.)

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Digital design concept wins AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge

A novel idea to revolutionize capability development through optimized digital engineering is the winner of the Air Force Materiel Command Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities challenge.

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AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge

Gen. Duke Z. Richardson (left), Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, gets ready to announce the winner of the AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge, Oct. 19, at Headquarters, Air Force Materiel Command. The AFMC Spark Tank is an annual competition that leverages the inherent innovation of Airmen and Guardians, empowering them to use their problem-solving skills and creativity to solve the service’s most critical needs. For this year’s challenge, innovative solutions were sought to transform how AFMC drives research, development, test, sustainment, support, and infrastructure to optimize combat readiness across the spectrum. Semi-finalists (left to right): Donna Spry, Wing Process Manager, Arnold Engineering Development Complex; Douglas Szczublewski, Next Gen Capabilities Lead and aerospace engineer, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory; Lt. Col. Trevyn Guglielmo, Emergency Services Branch Chief, Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center

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AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge

Douglas Szczublewski, Next Gen Capabilities Lead and aerospace engineer, Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, accepts an award for his team's win of the Air Force Materiel Command Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge, Oct. 19. His team's submission of a concept for Digital Effectiveness Based Design was selected as the command winner. The AFMC Spark Tank is an annual competition that leverages the inherent innovation of Airmen and Guardians, empowering them to use their problem-solving skills and creativity to solve the service’s most critical needs. For this year’s challenge, innovative solutions were sought to transform how AFMC drives research, development, test, sustainment, support, and infrastructure to optimize combat readiness across the spectrum.

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AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities Challenge

Gen. Duke Z. Richardson, commander, Air Force Materiel Command, holds an acoustic scanner while Wayne Hortn, Ultrasound Lead, Condition Base Maintenance Group, Arnold Engineering Development Complex, looks on, Oct. 19. The acoustic scanner was a semi-finalist in the AFMC Spark Tank Integrated Capabilities challenge. The AFMC Spark Tank is an annual competition that leverages the inherent innovation of Airmen and Guardians, empowering them to use their problem-solving skills and creativity to solve the service’s most critical needs. For this year’s challenge, innovative solutions were sought to transform how AFMC drives research, development, test, sustainment, support, and infrastructure to optimize combat readiness across the spectrum.

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AEROMORPH CoE represents another critical step in development of shape-adaptive systems for DOD use

AFRL's MUTANT display at the Air and Space Force Association's Air, Space & Cyber Conference at National Harbor, Maryland, Sept. 11-13, 2023, highlights the research effort to significantly increase missile range and lethality against highly maneuverable targets with a better flight control system. The MUTANT program's approach is a form of active morphing involving high-rate pivoting of the missile forebody, referred to as articulation. This area of research has developed over the last 15-20 years with basic research support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, and will continue with research conducted at the newly launched AEROMORPH Center of Excellence at the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion, or FCAAP, located in Tallahassee, Florida. (U.S. Air Force photo / Cherie Cullen)

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Two Integrated Capabilities Directorate projects nominated for Aviation Week awards

The concept of adapting multiple base defense weapon types for use in National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or NASAMS, launchers was tested at the Trident Elding 2022 exercise in Norway. Raytheon is a finalist in Aviation Week Network’s 2023 Program Excellence Awards Special Projects category because of its role in Trident Elding 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Rapid Dragon is a palletized munitions experimentation campaign exploring the feasibility and operational advantages of airdropping long-range palletized munitions from unmodified existing airlift platforms, such as the C-130 and C-17. In this photo from a test in November 2021, a cruise missile is released from a pallet and deploys its wings and tail. Lockheed Martin’s Rapid Dragon efforts have made the company a finalist in Aviation Week Network’s 2023 Program Excellence Awards Special Projects category. (Courtesy photo)

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Dr. Benji Maruyama, principal materials research engineer based in the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, displays a model of a carbon nanotube structure in his research lab in 2016. Carbon nanotubes are of great interest to materials scientists due to their strong, lightweight structure, ability to conduct heat and electricity better than many other materials, and promising implications for reducing the effects of climate change. In the spring of 2023, Maruyama was named a Materials Research Society, or MRS, fellow largely due to his extensive efforts to promote and develop carbon nanotube research. The MRS, currently 13,000 strong, has named less than 2% of its current members as fellows. “Carbon nanotubes are these wonderful materials that are super stiff, super strong, lightweight, electrically and thermally conductive,” Maruyama explained. “They have all these great properties that we can harness to make all kinds of things that we need, more sustainably — but, we don’t have the science yet to make them at scale, meaning at millions of tons per year. If we can do it at scale, we might just be able to reduce global CO2 emissions by, say, 20% to 40%, which allows us to meet 2050 goals.” (U.S. Air Force photo / Marisa Novobilski)

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AI research robots key to ‘democratizing and revolutionizing science’, world-class AFRL researcher says

Getting artificially intelligent, or AI, research robots into educators’ hands at a low cost is crucial to support the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, ongoing efforts to multiply human research efforts by a thousandfold and to send the message that science is for everyone, said Dr. Benji Maruyama, a principal materials research engineer based in AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate. “There are simply not enough of us [researchers],” Maruyama said. While AI robots grow increasingly sophisticated by the day, Maruyama said he does not fear them. AI is the key to “democratizing” science, making it more accessible to everyone as humans learn to work in tandem with evolving technology, ultimately freeing themselves from unnecessary toil and leading to greater discovery, he added. (U.S. Air Force photo illustration / Gregory Gerken)

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AI research robots key to ‘democratizing and revolutionizing science’, world-class AFRL researcher says

From left: University of Dayton, or UD, undergraduate students and 2023-2024 Stitt Scholars Avery Baltrus, Anna Carollo and Raegan Rowland pose for a photo outside of their design lab on campus in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 9, 2023. Stitt Scholars, all of whom are multidisciplinary students based in UD’s School of Engineering, School of Business Administration or College of Arts and Sciences, complete a paid internship experience spanning one full academic year that is typically tied to a local technology-based or -enabled entrepreneurial effort. This year, Baltrus, Carollo and Rowland selected the rollout of Educational ARES OS software, hardware and curriculum solutions into local schools for free or low-cost as their internship focus. (Courtesy photo / Michael Moulton)

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AI research robots key to ‘democratizing and revolutionizing science’, world-class AFRL researcher says

The 2023-24 Stitt Scholar Program student cohort is pictured on the University of Dayton, or UD, campus in Dayton, Ohio, Oct. 9, 2023. UD Stitt Scholars, all of whom are multidisciplinary undergraduate students based in UD’s School of Engineering, School of Business Administration or College of Arts and Sciences, complete a paid internship experience spanning one full academic year that is typically tied to a local technology-based or -enabled entrepreneurial effort. This year, three of the Stitt Scholars selected the rollout of Educational ARES OS software, hardware and curriculum solutions into local schools for free or low-cost as their internship focus. (Courtesy photo / Michael Moulton)

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Dr. Benji Maruyama, internationally acclaimed senior materials research engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, and Materials Research Society fellow, adjusts the ARES open-source software-enabled system in its early development stages in his lab in 2017. The autonomous research system, developed by Maruyama and his AFRL team, used artificial intelligence to design, execute and analyze experiments at a faster pace than traditional scientific research methods. Maruyama and his team rolled out ARES open-source software in 2021 to overwhelmingly positive acclaim. It is currently available to the public as a free internet download. Now, Maruyama is seeking community stakeholders who will partner with him and his team to help integrate ARES into local schools for free or at extremely low cost to inspire the next generation of scientists and researchers. (U.S. Air Force photo / David Dixon)

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1st Space Force Guardian receives Arctic Service Medal

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20) travels through the Arctic July 31, 2023. U.S. Space Force Capt. Henry Cho captured the image while serving aboard. Cho is the first USSF Guardian to receive the Coast Guard Arctic Service Medal. The medal is awarded to any member who has served aboard a Coast Guard vessel operating in polar waters north of latitude 60 degrees North, specifically in the Bering Sea, Davis Strait or Denmark Strait. The minimum time requirement is 21 non-consecutive days under competent orders. (U.S. Space Force photo / Capt. Henry Cho)

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1st Space Force Guardian receives Arctic Service Medal

U.S. Space Force Capt. Henry Cho poses in front of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy (WAGB-20), Aug.6, 2023, in the Arctic region. Cho is the first USSF Guardian to receive the Arctic Service Medal by serving 21 days in the Arctic. (Courtesy photo)

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AFWERX participates in the Department of Transportation's Interagency Working Group to foster innovation and collaboration

Darshan Divakaran, AFWERX head of Airspace Innovation and Prime Partnerships, briefs at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Advanced Air Mobility Interagency Working Group at the Syracuse Hancock International Airport, New York, Oct. 11-13. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ciska Bloemhard)

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AFWERX participates in the Department of Transportation's Interagency Working Group to foster innovation and collaboration

Lt. Col. John Tekell, AFWERX Agility Prime branch chief, gives a presentation highlighting how AFWERX brings cutting edge American ingenuity from small businesses and start-ups to address the most pressing challenges of the Department of the Air Force, Syracuse, New York, Oct. 11-13, 2023. (U.S. Air Force photo by Ciska Bloemhard)

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