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  • AFRL personnel from the Materials and Manufacturing, Aerospace Systems, and Personnel Directorates recently participated in a course on creativity for problem solving to enhance thought processes. (U.S. Air Force photo/Spencer Deer)

    AFRL personnel connect with creative thinking process to enhance problem solving

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Air Force Research Laboratory personnel recently participated in a course on design innovation to learn and practice creativity techniques for enhanced problem solving. Because road blocks often develop in thinking processes, it is helpful to try new methods to spark imaginative solutions.The design
  • Dr. Benji Maruyama, Principal Materials Research Engineer and Leader of the Flexible Materials and Processes Research Team in the Functional Materials Division, is named an Air Force Research Laboratory Fellow for his scientific and engineering achievements. (U.S. Air Force photo/Karen Schlesinger)

    AFRL employees receive Fellow and Early Career Award recognition

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The AFRL Fellows program recognizes outstanding scientists and engineers in research achievements, technology development and transition achievements, or program and organizational leadership. Individuals selected for this honor represent the top 0.3 percent of AFRL's professional technical staff and join an
  • Current C-5 cargo airplane tire replacement requires up to five Airmen with a multitude of tools to replace a tire. The Air Force Research Laboratory Junior Force Warfighter Operations Team works on a solution for this awkward and uncomfortable task.(U.S. Air Force photo)

    AFRL team invents cargo aircraft tire change tool

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – How many airmen does it take to change a cargo aircraft tire? Too many, according to J.D. Bales, Air Force Research Laboratory and Junior Force Warfighter Operations team member of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate.The 60th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, part of the Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air
  • Javier Rodriguez, engineer, of the Air Force Research Laboratory is selected to receive the 2019 STEM Military and Civilian Hero Award at the 31st Annual Great Minds in STEM Conference in September 2019, at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

    AFRL employees receive Great Minds in STEM Award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - The Air Force Research Laboratory has winners in the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation Great Minds in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Heroes Award for 2019.GMiS is a non-profit organization dedicated to keeping America technologically strong by promoting STEM careers,
  • AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Assistant Chief Engineer, Dr. Larry Brott, displays infrared powder used to form pellets in the creation of infrared technologies for battlefield communication and training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Donna Lindner)

    AFRL licenses second technology to local firm

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - Battle Sight Technologies has acquired a second patent license related to infrared materials as signaling tools for nighttime military operations.A year ago, Dr. Larry Brott of the Air Force Research Laboratory, along with his co-inventors, licensed a technology to BST for a pressure-activated marker that
  • Dr. Hilmar Koerner of the Air Force Research Laboratory, was elected to the 2019 Class of the American Chemical Society of Fellows. He uses a 3D printer to print epoxy carbon fiber reinforced inks.

    AFRL researcher named American Chemical Society Fellow

     WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio - A research chemist from the Air Force Research Laboratory was recently chosen as a 2019 Fellow of the American Ceramic Society for his exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the science and technology community.Dr. Hilmar Koerner, research team lead in the Structural Materials Division of AFRL, is
  • Daniel Engelhart of Assurance Technology Corporation, displays a scale model of satellite XSS-11 which uses Kapton to manage the internal temperature of the satellite. Electron irradiation alters the optical and mechanical properties of the material, leading to non-ideal spacecraft thermal management. (Courtesy photo)

    AFRL investigating space weather effects on satellite materials

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with several universities, has investigated the effects of space weather damage to polyimides, materials used extensively in spacecraft construction due to their high heat resistance.The researchers determined the previously unknown chemical and physical
  • The Title III Program partnered with Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation to refurbish and upgrade key forging equipment, controls, and supporting infrastructure, preserving the U.S. heavy forging industrial base. (Courtesy photo)

    Air Force contracting process enhanced with new hybrid Funding Opportunity Announcement

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory, serving as Department of Defense Executive Agent Program Office of the Defense Production Act Title III Program, has issued a hybrid Funding Opportunity Announcement that will provide extensive flexibility to efficiently award production technology projects to strengthen
  • The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Segrid Harris will receive the Managerial Leadership in Government award at the 24th Annual Women of Color STEM Conference, October 5, 2019, in Detroit, Michigan. Her team uses a computed tomography system for research investigation work. (U.S. Air Force photo/Donna Lindner)

    AFRL branch chief receives 2019 Women of Color in STEM Award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Segrid Harris has been selected by Career Communications Group, Inc. to receive the Managerial Leadership in Government award at the 24th Annual Women of Color STEM Conference.Harris is the Materials Integrity Branch Chief of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory.The
  • RAMS 1 systems have been used in over 30 beamline experiments by three Air Force engine manufacturers, 10 universities, six national labs, and two international partners. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Paul Shade)

    AFRL’s metals experts receive STAR Team Award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Four members from the Metals Branch at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, were designated as an Air Force Office of Scientific Research STAR Team for the years 2019-2021. AFOSR acknowledges researchers who have demonstrated world class scientific or engineering
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