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May 21, 2024
AFRL scientists, engineers promote STEM careers at WPAFB Spring Job Shadow Day

Scientists and engineers from across the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, helped to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, or WPAFB, Spring Job Shadow Day, March 11, 2024. The program, which is sponsored by WPAFB’s Educational Outreach
May 20, 2024
AFWERX safeguards American interests through due diligence

In defense innovation, rigorous scrutiny is not just an afterthought; it’s the law. AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and a directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory, employs a thorough due diligence process at the core of its investment strategy for
May 16, 2024
AFRL honors its newest senior scientist at induction ceremony

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted a promotion and pin-on ceremony to honor its newest senior scientist Dr. Mark Benedict, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, May 9, 2024. The ceremony publicly inducted Benedict into the Scientific and Professional Cadre of Senior Executives, though
May 15, 2024
AFRL Future Flag series grows in scope, size with new funding, alliances

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Information Directorate is bringing together approximately 150 participants representing a variety of U.S. military branches, technologies and aircraft to upstate New York for the Future Flag event, August 26, 2024. Future Flag is an experimentation
May 7, 2024
AFWERX Spark Crossflow event spurs innovation and collaboration

SPOKANE, Wash. — The AFWERX Spark team launched the first Crossflow event of the year, April 23-25, 2024. Crossflows offer the Department of the Air Force Innovation and Process Improvement ecosystem a chance to concentrate on development, collaboration and strategic alignment toward operational
May 3, 2024
AFRL enhances workforce through STEM outreach programs

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Munitions Directorate recently hired three former interns directly from its esteemed STEM outreach programs to serve Eglin Air Force Base in delivering effective and affordable munitions technologies to the warfighter. The new AFRL employees demonstrate
April 24, 2024
AFRL engineer to be recognized at ASME national meeting

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, or ASME, will be recognizing Dr. Ajit Roy, a senior materials engineer with the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, with the John J. Montgomery Award for Distinguished Innovation in Aerospace at their national
April 24, 2024
Project Arc: Delivering tailored innovations to 435th AGOW warfighters

The 435th Air Ground Operations Wing hosted the first Project Arc team October 2023 - April 2024 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. The team integrated with 435th AGOW units, and conducted a broad range of technological support and advancements to improve mission accomplishment and solve problems
April 20, 2024
AFRL researchers pave the way to lighter, faster additively manufactured rocket engines

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Rocket Propulsion Division, recently designed, printed, built and hot fired a first-ever, single-block rocket-engine thrust chamber additively manufactured using a process called laser powder directed energy deposition, or DED. DVIDS link:
April 17, 2024
USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning

The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency were finalists for the 2023 Robert J. Collier Trophy, a formal acknowledgement of recent breakthroughs that have launched the machine-learning era within the aerospace industry.