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Air Force Demonstrates Low-Cost Maritime Defense Capability with QUICKSINK

Airmen assigned to the 393rd Bomber Generation Squadron load GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions in a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. The loading operations were a component of the Air Force Research Laboratory QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration, a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Hastings)

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Air Force Demonstrates Low-Cost Maritime Defense Capability with QUICKSINK

An Airman assigned to the 393rd Bomber Generation Squadron prepares GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munitions to be loaded onto a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo. The loading operations were a component of the Air Force Research Laboratory QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration, a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Hastings)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

From left: Andrew Bowman, on-site researcher with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Manufacturing Research Team, or DMRT, and Yash Kakade, a DMRT summer intern, demonstrate the motion capture system in the newly opened Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base following a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

From left: Darrell Phillipson, director, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate; Dr. Sean Donegan, Digital Manufacturing Research Team lead; Timothy Sakulich, AFRL executive director; and Dr. Charles Ormsby, Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy division chief observe as Boston Dynamics robot Astro cuts a ceremonial ribbon, officially opening the new Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, July 23, 2024. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Digital Manufacturing Research Team celebrates the official opening of the new Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base after a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. This is the team’s first internal laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo / Sarah Perez)

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MacDill Air Force Base, Florida – Tech. Sgt. Tyler Beck, 6th Security Forces Squadron flight sergeant, reviews constraints on Collaborative Low-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Effort, or CLUE, June 6, 2024, to plan an operational intent for a drone flight at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The Air Mobility Command in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Information Directorate, is evaluating the AFRL CLUE UAS Traffic Management system at the base. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

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MacDill Air Force Base, Florida – Senior Airman Brooks Dingman, 6th Operations Group air traffic controller, or ATC, uses Collaborative Low-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft System Integration Effort, or CLUE, June 6, 2024, to establish constraint to let small Unmanned Aircraft System, or UAS, operators know where ATC approval is required to fly drones at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. The Air Mobility Command, in collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Information Directorate, is evaluating the AFRL CLUE UAS Traffic Management system on the base. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo)

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AFRL, University of Texas – Arlington collaboration yields break-through in thin film technology

From left: University of Texas in Arlington, or UT Arlington, team members Dr. Stathis Meletis, Dr. Jiechao Jiang, Enrique Ramirez, Dr. Joseph Ngai and Nonso Martin Chetuya gather for a photo at UT Arlington May 16, 2024 to celebrate the successful conclusion to a collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate. The collaboration was made possible through the Minority Leaders Research Collaboration Program and resulted in a significant breakthrough in the development of thin film technology, as a potential lower-cost alternative to be used in infrared light detection. (Courtesy photo / Dr. Yi Shen)

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AFRL opens International Center at Rice University

Representatives from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Rice University in Houston, Texas, break for lunch during the kick-off meeting for the new International Research Innovation in Nanotechnology Center, May 9, 2024. The center is part of collaborative effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rice University, India’s Defense Research Development Organization and the Indian Institute of Technology that seeks to strengthen U.S. scientific and manufacturing ties with India as well as increase availability of rare nanomaterials technology. (Courtesy photo / Vinod Veedu)

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AFRL opens International Center at Rice University

Dr. Sohini Bhattacharyya, second from left, a postdoctoral research associate at Rice University’s Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, discusses research activity on the processing approaches for two-dimensional nano-materials growth with researchers and students May 9, 2024, at the new International Research Innovation in Nanotechnology, or RISING Center at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The RISING Center, which opened May 9, 2024, is part of collaborative effort between the Air Force Research Laboratory, Rice University, India’s Defense Research Development Organization and the Indian Institute of Technology that seeks to strengthen U.S. scientific and manufacturing ties with India, as well as increase availability of rare nanomaterials technology. (Courtesy photo / Becca Zietler)

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AFRL researcher impacts community with runtime assurance

Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Controls Engineer Capt. Christian Potts, left, and Program Manager Amy Burns, right, watch from the simulation control room at AFRL’s Aerospace Systems Directorate while 2nd Lt. Ryan Collins demonstrates automatic fly up maneuvers in a virtual flight simulator generated by the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto GCAS, Dec. 6, 2022, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Auto GCAS is a software update developed by AFRL, Lockheed Martin and NASA that prevents an aircraft from impacting the ground by automatically pulling the aircraft up before an accident can occur. Kerianne Hobbs, safe autonomy and space lead with the Autonomy Capability Team, or ACT3, for the Sensors Directorate at AFRL, was the lead author of a 38-page spread in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Magazine, titled Runtime assurance for safety-critical systems: An introduction to safety filtering approaches for complex control systems, for her extensive research in runtime assurance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AFRL researcher impacts community with runtime assurance

2nd Lt. Ryan Collins demonstrates an automatic fly up maneuver generated by the Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto GCAS, in a research flight simulator, Dec. 6, 2022, at the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Aerospace Systems Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Auto GCAS is a software update developed by AFRL, Lockheed Martin and NASA that prevents an aircraft from impacting the ground by automatically pulling the aircraft up before an accident can occur. Kerianne Hobbs, safe autonomy and space lead with the Autonomy Capability Team, or ACT3, for the Sensors Directorate at AFRL, was the lead author of a 38-page spread in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Magazine, titled Runtime assurance for safety-critical systems: An introduction to safety filtering approaches for complex control systems, for her extensive research in runtime assurance. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AFRL researcher impacts community with runtime assurance

F-35 test pilot Dan Levin, F-35 Pax River Integrated Test Force, flies an Auto Ground Collision Avoidance System, or Auto-GCAS, test flight in an F-35C on a low level through West Virginia, June 17, 2019. Flying the low level helps stress the Auto-GCAS software to confirm there are no false collision warnings while flying as close to the ground as operationally representative. Kerianne Hobbs, safe autonomy and space lead with the Autonomy Capability Team, or ACT3, for the Sensors Directorate at AFRL, was the lead author of a 38-page spread in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Magazine, titled Runtime assurance for safety-critical systems: An introduction to safety filtering approaches for complex control systems, for her extensive research in runtime assurance. (Courtesy photo / Dane Wiedmann)

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Deputy Secretary of Defense visits Air Force Research Laboratory

Air Force Research Laboratory Commander Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle and Gen. Duke Richardson, commander of Air Force Materiel Command, greet Deputy Secretary of Defense Dr. Kathleen H. Hicks, who visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 17, 2022. (U.S. Air Force photo / Keith Lewis)

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AFRL completes series of 1 Newton ASCENT monopropellant thruster testing

Corinne Sedano, group lead for Chemical Propulsion Flight Programs in the “In Space” Branch at AFRL’s Edwards AFB Rocket Lab facility, reviews AFRL’s test stand for One Newton Thrusters. The Chemical Propulsion Flight Programs Group has successfully completed the Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic Propellant (ASCENT) monopropellant 1 Newton (1N) thruster testing in the Chemical in-Space Thruster Test and Research Site test facility. (U.S. Air Force photo/Josh McClanahan)

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Quarterly AFTC-AFRL Summit aims to get warfighters “ready to go fast”

The quarterly AFTC-AFRL Summit, held most recently Jan. 24-28, 2022,, helps the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center move Air Force Materiel Command “forward” and get it “ready to go fast” by having the test community involved as early as the research and development stage of science and technology. (Courtesy graphic)

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The U.S. Air Force has signed an agreement for joint development of Air Launched UAVs with India’s Defence Research and Development Organization.

210730-F- F3963-1001 Indian Air Force Air Vice Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari, Assistant Chief of Air Staff for Plans, joined by U.S. Navy Captain Michael Farmer, Chief, Office of Defense Cooperation, New Delhi, counter-signs a landmark agreement to co-develop air-launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicles under the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative, at Indian Air Force Headquarters in New Delhi, India, on July 30, 2021.

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AFRL establishes one-stop shop for partnerships

U.S. Navy Capt. Michael Farmer, left, chief, Office of Defense Cooperation, New Delhi, shakes hands with Indian air force Air Vice Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari, right, assistant chief of Air Staff for Plans, after Tiwari countersigns an agreement to co-develop air-launched unmanned aerial vehicles under the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative, at Indian Air Force headquarters in New Delhi, India, July 30, 2021. The Air Force Research Laboratory stood up a new Strategic Partnering Directorate, or AFRL/SP, to better achieve the Department of the Air Force’s mission and vision of collaborative science and technology partnerships. AFRL/SP will now manage international partnerships for the laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Brig. Gen. Jeannine Ryder's family stands by her as she accepts her new rank, Aug. 3, 2020 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. (U.S. Air Force photo/Darrius Parker)

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