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Oct. 26, 2022
AFRL STEM unit receives DOD STARBASE’s highest level award

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Department of Defense STARBASE NM program, managed through the AFRL STEM Academy, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, received accolades and certification to the highest level, for its work with fifth graders in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM.
Oct. 25, 2022
AFWERX AFVentures enhances SBIR/STTR program to increase tech transition

AFWERX AFVentures began the new fiscal year with multiple enhancements to the Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer, or SBIR/STTR, Program after Congress reauthorized the program, Sept. 30, 2022. These improvements aim to further encourage domestic small businesses to
Oct. 21, 2022
AFRL upgrades rocket fabrication capabilities

The Air Force Research Laboratory upgraded its fabrication shop equipment with 20 new state-of-the-art machines for manufacturing rocket components that will enhance capabilities, increase accuracy and save money.
Oct. 18, 2022
AFRL’s Ascent satellite marks end of mission objectives

The Air Force Research Laboratory's small satellite named Ascent has completed all of its mission objectives and is performing extended operations to characterize the survivability of the commercial-off-the-shelf, or COTS, bus electronics in the geosynchronous Earth orbit, or GEO, space environment.
Oct. 5, 2022
AFRL’s version of Academy Awards to highlight present and past achievements

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will honor 17 scientists and engineers for outstanding career accomplishments Oct. 12, 2022, from 2:30-4 p.m. at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force during the laboratory’s 2022 AFRL Fellows and Early Career Awards, or ECA, ceremony.
Sept. 27, 2022
AFRL Sensors Directorate holds 9/11 memorial stair climb

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Sensors Directorate held a memorial stair climb to commemorate the victims and first responders of the 9/11 terrorist attacks at the building 620 tower on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base September 12, 2022.
Sept. 26, 2022
AFRL, New York Air National Guard enter operational research partnership

The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, in Rome, has announced a partnership memorandum of understanding with the 152nd Air Operations Group, or AOG, of the New York Air National Guard to expand development, experimentation and integration of artificial intelligence/machine
Sept. 19, 2022
AFWERX releases Autonomy Prime RFI

The Department of the Air Force’s innovative engine, AFWERX, announced the release of its Autonomy Prime Request for Information, or RFI, Sept. 9, 2022. AFWERX will formally begin industry-facing research as it prepares to launch a new “Prime” program focused on the collaborative development of
Sept. 1, 2022
AFRL’s Center for Rapid Innovation realigns under newly designated Integrated Capabilities Directorate

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, has realigned under the Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation Directorate, which also underwent a name change and is now called the Integrated Capabilities Directorate to better reflect the directorate’s mission
Aug. 31, 2022
AFRL professionals share inspirational talks during livestreamed event

The Air Force Research Laboratory hosted its sixth annual AFRL Inspire, the lab's TEDx-style event, at the Air Force Institute of Technology's Kenney Hall at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Aug. 23, 2022.