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AE simulators for medical training

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE (AFRL), Ohio – An aircraft simulator in the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, building displays a hospital inside an aircraft, ready to use by medical Airmen for aeromedical evacuation missions. USAFSAM is one of two mission units in the 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The simulators are equipped with smoke, sound, fire, cameras and temperature changes, allowing the school to run realistic training. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AE simulators for medical training

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE (AFRL), Ohio – Aircraft simulators in the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, building sit empty, ready to be turned into a hospital by medical Airmen for aeromedical evacuation missions. USAFSAM is one of two mission units in the 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The simulators are equipped with smoke, sound, fire, cameras and temperature changes, allowing the school to run realistic training. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AE simulators for medical training

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE (AFRL), Ohio – Three simulators in the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, building help prepare medical Airmen for aeromedical evacuation missions. USAFSAM is one of two mission units in the 711th Human Performance Wing, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The simulators are equipped with smoke, sound, fire, cameras and temperature changes, allowing the school to run realistic training. (U.S. Air Force photo / Richard Eldridge)

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AFRL STEM Academy returns to in-person annual Mission to Mars event

Students give a technical briefing to Air Force Research Laboratory volunteers and fellow students at the AFRL STEM Academy’s Mission to Mars Link-up Day at the Albuquerque Convention Center, April 19, 2022. The briefing includes details about the life support system model they designed and built, and the mission patch they created.

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AFRL STEM Academy returns to in-person annual Mission to Mars event

The Air Force Research Laboratory STEM Academy held its 28th annual Mission to Mars Link-up Day at the Albuquerque Convention Center, April 19, 2022. The photo captures a bird’s eye view of all 31 habitats the student teams built.

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AFRL STEM Academy returns to in-person annual Mission to Mars event

A group of students attending the Air Force Research Laboratory STEM Academy’s Mission to Mars Link-Up Day at the Albuquerque Convention Center April 19, 2022, gather at the mission commander station as a group of students participating remotely perform the Saga they created to describe their journey from Earth to Mars.

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AFRL technology makes new weapon for sinking ships a reality

An F-15E Strike Eagle from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., supported the second test in the QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. Eglin’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats April 28, 2022, successfully destroying a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. With technology developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, QUICKSINK enables air-delivered weapons to sink capital ships. (U.S. Air Force photo / 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin)

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AFRL technology makes new weapon for sinking ships a reality

An F-15E Strike Eagle equipped with modified 2,000-pound GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions prepares for takeoff from Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., April 28, 2022, for the second test in the QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. Developed by scientists and engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, this new low-cost, air-delivered capability successfully destroyed a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. The test succeeded through a collaborative effort with AFRL and Eglin’s Integrated Test Team. (U.S. Air Force photo / 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin)

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AFRL technology makes new weapon for sinking ships a reality

The Air Force Research Laboratory partnered with the 780th Test Squadron of the 96th Test Wing and the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron of the 53rd Wing to equip the F-15E Strike Eagle at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., with modified 2,000-pound GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions as part of the second test in the QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. Eglin’s Integrated Test Team demonstrated QUICKSINK, a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats April 28, 2022, successfully destroying a full-scale surface vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo / 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin)

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AFRL technology makes new weapon for sinking ships a reality

The Air Force Research Laboratory partnered with the 780th Test Squadron of the 96th Test Wing and the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron of the 53rd Wing to equip an F-15E Strike Eagle at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. with modified 2,000-pound GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions as part of the second test in the QUICKSINK Joint Capability Technology Demonstration. QUICKSINK, a new low-cost, air-delivered capability for defeating maritime threats, successfully destroyed a full-scale surface vessel April 28, 2022, as part of a demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico. (U.S. Air Force photo / 1st Lt Lindsey Heflin)

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Multi-energy electron device creates space environment in the lab

The multi-energy electron source undergoes testing in a vacuum chamber at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate’s Spacecraft Charging and Instrument Calibration Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

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RAC 1 Ready

Tech. Sgt. Tyler Wineman waits for an oxygen system test to begin inside a Research Altitude Chamber at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 15, 2022. The chamber is one of three at the base that were certified in March for manned research up to 50,000 feet, a benchmark found nowhere else in the Department of Defense. Wineman is an aircrew flight equipment research technician assigned to the 711th Human Performance Wing, the Air Force Research Laboratory unit that operates the chambers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Schaap)

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RAC 1

The inside activities of Research Altitude Chamber 1 are monitored from the outside during an oxygen system test at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 15, 2022. The chamber is one of three at the base that were certified in March for manned research up to 50,000 feet, a benchmark found nowhere else in the Department of Defense. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Schaap)

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RAC 2

Equipment up to the size of a Humvee can fit inside Research Altitude Chamber 2 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The Air Force Research Laboratory operates four RACs at the base and three were certified in March, 2022, for manned research up to 50,000 feet, a certification found nowhere else in the Department of Defense. (U,S. Air Force photo/Jason Schaap)

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RAC 1 Window

Tech. Sgt. Tyler Wineman sits inside a Research Altitude Chamber during an oxygen system test at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 15, 2022. The chamber is one of three at the base that were certified in March for manned research up to 50,000 feet, a benchmark found nowhere else in the Department of Defense. Wineman is an aircrew flight equipment research technician assigned to the 711th Human Performance Wing, the Air Force Research Laboratory unit that operates the chambers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Schaap)

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RAC 1 Prep

Maj. Sarah Kercher directs Tech. Sgt. Tyler Wineman in preparation for an oxygen system test inside a Research Altitude Chamber at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, April 15, 2022. The chamber is one of three at the base that were certified in March for manned research up to 50,000 feet, a benchmark found nowhere else in the Department of Defense. Wineman is an aircrew flight equipment research technician and Kercher is an aerospace physiologist. Both are assigned to the 711th Human Performance Wing, the Air Force Research Laboratory unit that operates the chambers. (U.S. Air Force photo/Jason Schaap)

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Air Commandos from the 1st Special Operations Security Forces Squadron and the 1st Special Operations Civil Engineer Squadron navigate the inside of a building during an active shooter exercise at Hurlburt Field, Fla., March 10, 2017. The Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Security Innovation Network sponsored a capstone project at the University of Colorado Denver that focused on indoor communication and navigation problems for first responders. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Krystal M. Garrett)

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AFRL’s new lab to accelerate hybrid space architecture

Rendering of Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles new Space facility, the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

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AFRL’s new lab to accelerate hybrid space architecture

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon cutting ceremony for its newest space facility, the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, laboratory, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, April 12, 2022, with Col. Eric Felt, director, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, as the presiding official. Joining Felt in the ribbon cutting are (from left): Bradley Rieck, AFRL senior engineer facility project lead; Felt; Col. Jon Luminati, AFRL Integrated Experiments and Evaluation Division chief; Maj. Brett Fuller, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, Albuquerque District deputy commander; and Filemon Gallegos, USACE project manager.

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AFRL is developing green power for satellites

Dr. Andre Spears, an Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate postdoctoral research fellow from the University of New Mexico, assembles a solid oxide fuel cell for testing, as part of the Bipropellant Enabled Electrical Power Supply, or BEEPS, effort.

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