July 28, 2025 AFRL welcomes new Space Vehicles director Col. Richard R. Beckman assumed command as director of the Space Vehicles Directorate and commander of the Phillips Research Site, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, July 15, 2025.
July 15, 2025 509th CONS Airman selected for competitive Project Arc assignment Airman 1st Class Reid Richardson, a contracting specialist, assigned to the 509th Contracting Squadron, has been assigned to join Project Arc, a selective Air Force program focused on solving operational challenges through creative, cross-disciplinary solutions.
July 3, 2025 Air Force advances human-machine teaming with autonomous collaborative platforms The U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated a major leap in human-machine teaming, flying autonomous collaborative platforms (ACPs), alongside crewed fighter aircraft during a training event at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Pilots operating an F-16C Fighting Falcon and an F-15E Strike Eagle each
June 26, 2025 AFRL welcomes new command chief during change of responsibility ceremony The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) welcomed Chief Master Sgt. Timothey Hodgin as its new command chief during a change of responsibility ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, June 18, 2025.DVIDS link:
June 17, 2025 AFWERX welcomes new director during change of leadership ceremony AFWERX welcomed its new director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of the Air Force, Col. Nathan Stuckey, during a change of leadership ceremony at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, June 17, 2025.
June 16, 2025 Air Force DASH sprint pioneers human-machine teaming for faster battle management decisions The Department of the Air Force took a bold step toward future command and control capabilities with the successful completion of its first Decision Advantage Sprint for Human-Machine Teaming, or DASH, experiment, recently held at the Howard Hughes Operations Center, or H2O, in Las Vegas, Nev.
June 5, 2025 New AFRL chamber to enhance human, equipment performance in extreme environments The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house for the new Research Environmental Chamber (REC), May 27, 2025. The capability, part of AFRL’s Human Effectiveness Directorate, facilitates equipment and human performance evaluations with control over
June 4, 2025 Air Force Demonstrates Low-Cost Maritime Defense Capability with QUICKSINK In a demonstration of enhanced maritime lethality, the Air Force tested a new, more versatile variant of the QUICKSINK maritime weapon, increasing aircraft lethality by expanding its targeting reach. QUICKSINK is a low-cost method for neutralizing surface vessels using a modified, air-delivered
May 7, 2025 New USAFSAM partnership with Purdue University expands educational opportunities for Airmen, Guardians A new partnership between the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, or USAFSAM, a mission unit within the Air Force Research Laboratory, and Purdue University will expand educational opportunities for Airmen and Guardians and provide added mission flexibility. The new opportunities involve
May 6, 2025 Oracle-M Hot Fire Test: A major milestone in Cislunar Space Situational Awareness and National Security SSC and AFRL have reached a critical milestone in advancing cislunar SSA with the successful completion of the Oracle-M Hot Fire Test, which marks a major step toward ensuring Oracle-M’s readiness for its upcoming mission to monitor and track objects as they traverse cislunar space, the vast region