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AFWERX officials to discuss advanced air mobility, small business support at EAA Airventure 2024

AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm and a directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory, will have a booth at EAA Airventure Oshkosh 2024 July 22-28 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jennifer Bryant)

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Project Vanguard reinforces defense capabilities with investor capital

At the SpaceWERX Innovate to Accelerate (I2A) Expo Day, companies from the spring 2024 Tactical Responsiveness Space award cohort showcased their capstone projects to the public in El Segundo, California, April 24, 2024. As a result of their connections made through Project Vanguard at I2A, 11 of these companies are now fundraising. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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Project Vanguard reinforces defense capabilities with investor capital

At the SpaceWERX Innovate to Accelerate (I2A) Expo Day, companies from the spring 2024 Tactical Responsiveness Space award cohort showcased their capstone projects to the public in El Segundo, California, April 24, 2024. As a result of their connections made through Project Vanguard at I2A, 11 of these companies are now fundraising. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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Project Vanguard reinforces defense capabilities with investor capital

At the SpaceWERX Innovate to Accelerate (I2A) Expo Day, companies from the spring 2024 Tactical Responsiveness Space award cohort showcased their capstone projects to the public in El Segundo, California, April 24, 2024. As a result of their connections made through Project Vanguard at I2A, 11 of these companies are now fundraising. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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Innovate to Accelerate expo day attendees socialize during a break in El Segundo, California, April 25, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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The SpaceWERX team and guest speakers gather for a photograph in El Segundo, California, April 25, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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Arthur Grijalva, SpaceWERX Director, welcomes guests during opening remarks at the inaugural I2A Expo Day event in El Segundo, California, April 25, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo by Breana Isley)

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AFWERX Spark Crossflow event spurs innovation and collaboration

Staff Sgt. Joshua Nash, left, and Master Sgt. Dakota Belcher, AFWERX Spark coordinators, use Design Thinking methods to create conditions for lively participation and peak creativity of thought at the Western Crossflow event in Spokane, Washington, from April 23-25, 2024. Crossflows annually bring together Spark Cells from around the world with innovation partners from the Department of Defense to upskill our innovation network, share lessons learned, and cultivate the powerful Spark culture. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kacey Napier)

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AFWERX Spark Crossflow event spurs innovation and collaboration

More than 100 Airmen, Guardians, and Defense attendees gathered at the AFWERX Spark Western Crossflow event in Spokane, Washington, from April 23-25, 2024. Crossflows annually bring together Spark Cells from around the world with innovation partners from the Department of Defense to upskill our innovation network, share lessons learned, and cultivate the powerful Spark culture. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kacey Napier)

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AFWERX Spark Crossflow event spurs innovation and collaboration

Senior Master Sgt. Brett Kiser, from the Air Force Chief of Staff Strategic Studies Group, discusses combat airpower for all at the Western Crossflow event in Spokane, Washington, from April 23-25, 2024. Crossflows annually bring together Spark Cells from around the world with innovation partners from the Department of Defense to upskill our innovation network, share lessons learned, and cultivate the powerful Spark culture. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kacey Napier)

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SpaceWERX, Aerospace Corporation collaborate to guide technologies through the 'Valley of Death'

U.S. Space Force Capt. Jeremy Swaw, SpaceWERX Spark lead, gets a technology demonstration from an attendee at Space Symposium at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 11, 2024. As the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, SpaceWERX inspires and empowers collaboration with innovators to accelerate capabilities and shape our future in space. Since it was aligned under AFRL in Aug. 2021, SpaceWERX has executed 906 contracts worth more than $690 million to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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The SpaceWERX team poses for a picture at their Space Symposium booth at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 10, 2024. As the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, SpaceWERX inspires and empowers collaboration with innovators to accelerate capabilities and shape the future of space. Since it was aligned under AFRL in August 2021, SpaceWERX has executed 906 contracts worth more than $690 million to strengthen the U.S. defense industrial base and drive faster technology transition to operational capability. (U.S. Air Force photo / Matthew Clouse)

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AFWERX, SpaceWERX Ventures divisions launch Notice of Opportunity for space applicable technology submissions

AFWERX AFVentures, the commercial investment arm of the Department of the Air Force, issued a Notice of Opportunity within the Strategic Funding Increase and Tactical Funding Increase program for its U.S. Space Force division, SpaceWERX. (U.S. Air Force graphic by AFWERX)

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Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, helps cut the ribbon to celebrate the official opening of The Joint Defense Innovation Space at Capital Factory during South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. AFWERX, Defense Innovation Unit and NavalX have joined together to launch a new joint defense innovation workspace in Austin to better provide collaboration opportunities across the organizations and also to make them more accessible to startup companies. (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, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. Leigh's briefing, “Chasing Innovation: Lessons Learned,” shared the breadth of AFWERX's portfolio and how the organization unleashes American Ingenuity to rapidly provide novel technology to the warfighter. (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, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. Leigh's briefing, “Chasing Innovation: Lessons Learned,” shared the breadth of AFWERX's portfolio and how the organization unleashes American Ingenuity to rapidly provide novel technology to the warfighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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AFWERX funds successful kitted maintenance enclosure product for improved DAF fleet sustainment

Cornerstone Research Group’s DIRT Bag DB-2424, a small 24” x 24” x 20” portable maintainer fabricated enclosure kit, or MFEK, that includes two hand ports, one hose port and one filter for routine maintenance, is set up for flightline testing on an aircraft wing at a Marine Corps Air Station facility in Dec. 2023. The DB-2424 enables debris- and dust-free structural repairs on localized areas of an aircraft and provides a controlled work environment that works the same way for every aircraft maintainer, every time. The DB-2424 is a sister product of and can be paired with the DIRT Bag DB-6090, a larger walk-in enclosure kit that is also portable, scalable and reconfigurable from 54” up to 90”. Both prototypes were developed under an Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business Innovation Research program. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFWERX funds successful kitted maintenance enclosure product for improved DAF fleet sustainment

A DIRT Bag 6090 maintainer fabricated enclosure kit, or MFEK, is set up for an on-aircraft demonstration of a structural repair in a hangar at a Marine Corps Air Station facility in July 2022. A MFEK is a pre-fabricated walk-in enclosure that rapidly enables maintainers to perform sustainment on the Air Force’s current fleet of combat aircraft in a controlled, dust- and debris-free environment that works the same way for every maintainer, every time. The enclosure is comprised of durable, transparent panels and a lightweight, reconfigurable frame made of telescoping poles, and is scalable and reconfigurable from 54” up to 90”. AFWERX, the DAF’s innovation arm and a functional directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, funded the design, development and successful flightline testing of Cornerstone Research Group’s DIRT Bag DB-6090, which will be sold alongside the smaller DIRT Bag DB-2424 model previously developed under an AFRL Small Business Innovation Research program. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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AFWERX and SpaceWERX announce Strategic Funding Increase selections at South by Southwest

Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. Leigh's briefing, “Chasing Innovation: Lessons Learned,” shared the breadth of AFWERX's portfolio and how the organization unleashes American Ingenuity to rapidly provide novel technology to the warfighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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AFWERX and SpaceWERX announce Strategic Funding Increase selections at South by Southwest

Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, delivers the keynote address at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, March 8, 2024. Leigh's briefing, “Chasing Innovation: Lessons Learned,” shared the breadth of AFWERX's portfolio and how the organization unleashes American Ingenuity to rapidly provide novel technology to the warfighter. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew Clouse)

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