News - Tag AFRL

Sept. 3, 2021
AFRL to collaborate with India on Air Launched UAVs

The U.S. Air Force has signed an agreement for joint development of Air Launched UAVs with India’s Defence Research and Development Organization. The milestone agreement is the first such technical project agreement under the DTTI for joint cooperative research and co-development activities
Sept. 2, 2021
AFRL offers university satellite program

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s University Nanosatellite Program (UNP) request for proposals (RFP) will be open until October 1. UNP funds U.S. university students and programs to design, build, launch, and operate small satellites with the primary goal to
Aug. 30, 2021
AFRL extends capability for testing solid rocket motors with new equipment

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory's Rocket Propulsion Division has a new capability, a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar system, also known as a Kolsky bar, that measures stress at high strain rates and helps analyze material behavior under severe conditions. “This
Aug. 27, 2021
Student internship program celebrates 20th year

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) – Sixty interns from 31 high schools nationwide recently completed the Wright Scholar Research Assistant Program despite the continued challenges posed by COVID-19. The summer internship, now it is 20th year, offers research opportunities and paid work
Aug. 27, 2021
Air Force medics partner with University of Nebraska to sharpen biocontainment care skills

Lt. Gen. Robert I. Miller, U.S. Air Force Surgeon General, visited the Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills Omaha program on August 18, receiving updates on the program’s Principles of Biocontainment Care course and the Air Force’s partnership with Nebraska Medicine and the
Aug. 26, 2021
AFRL Munitions Directorate opens new collaborative facilities for faster technology development

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate recently opened two new jointly constructed facilities here, designed to serve as adaptable and collaborative workspace environments. These facilities will encourage rapid, cross-disciplinary interactions and
Aug. 26, 2021
USAFSAM provides deployment training to medics at Wright-Patt Med Center

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Aeromedical evacuation instructors from the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine provided an all-day deployment training on patient movement Aug. 12 to a team of 14 medics from the 88th Medical Group who currently work at the Wright-Patt Medical
Aug. 25, 2021
Entrepreneur Opportunity Program helps turn AFRL people and ideas into new private sector businesses

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Entrepreneurial Opportunities Program is turning scientists and engineers into business owners to speed emerging technology to warfighters.“AFRL is great at innovating new technologies, but unless someone, somewhere
Aug. 24, 2021
First Guardians from AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate inducted into Space Force

Two Air Force Research Laboratory Company Grade Officers were recently inducted into the U.S. Space Force, the nation’s newest branch of the military. On July 23, Capts. Kenneth Ehrenberg and Cristian Hernández-Rivera became Guardians in the Space Force during a swearing-in ceremony at
Aug. 20, 2021
Rapid Dragon conducts first system-level demonstration of palletized munitions

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – The Air Force Rapid Dragon Program, a fast-paced experimentation campaign led by the Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation office, has completed two more successful demonstrations during its first system-level flight tests of this potential