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Dec. 19, 2024
2024 AFMC Year in People

Step into the highlights of 2024 with our Air Force Materiel Command "Year in People" photo spread!
Dec. 17, 2024
AFRL hosts ribbon-cutting ceremony at new FORTRESS facility

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Radiation Tolerance Research on Electronics for Space and Strategic Systems, or FORTRESS, building here. FORTRESS, a Space Vehicles Directorate facility, will
Dec. 16, 2024
AIAA class of 2025 fellows includes four AFRL engineers

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AIAA, announced their selections for their class of 2025 Associate Fellows in a news release Sep. 23, 2024. The 2025 list of honorees includes four engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Aerospace Systems
Dec. 10, 2024
CSO, CMSSF announce Guardian Arena winners

Guardian Arena winners during the Space Force Association Spacepower Conference in Orlando.
Nov. 27, 2024
AFRL, AEDC celebrate 10th anniversary of partnership at Arnold AFB

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. — Leaders of the Air Force Research Laboratory and test enterprise recently gathered at Arnold Air Force Base to acknowledge a 10-year partnership advancing high-speed systems development.Air Force Test Center Commander Maj. Gen. Scott Cain asserted to those assembled
Nov. 5, 2024
AFRL, The Ohio State University, NASA test viability of laser welding in space

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, recently participated in a parabolic flight experiment led by a team of scientists and engineers from The Ohio State University. The NASA-funded endeavor was conducted at the Central Coast Jet Center in Santa Maria, California, Aug. 21–22, 2024, to
Oct. 21, 2024
AFRL marks 20th anniversary of DOD WPAFB STARBASE program with more than 47,000 STEM students supported to date

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Department of Defense STARBASE Wright-Patt program Oct. 4, 2024, at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Child Development Center, on Spinning Road near Area B, in Dayton, Ohio.DVIDS link:
Sept. 23, 2024
Small Business Summit - AFRL on track to exceed 2023 small business performance metrics

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is on track to meet or exceed its small business performance metrics from the previous fiscal year, according to Brian McJilton, director of the AFRL Small Business Office, who recently spoke at the enterprise-wide Small Business Summit held at Dayton Tech
Sept. 9, 2024
AFRL to highlight tech to ‘achieve decisive advantage in an age of growing threats’ at 2024 Air, Space and Cyber Conference

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will showcase war-winning technologies to drive the future fight in an era of Great Power Competition at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference, or AFA ASC, Sept. 16-18, 2024,
Aug. 2, 2024
AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate celebrated the opening of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory during a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. The