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Feb. 1, 2021
AFRL engineer earns lifetime achievement award

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Robert “Bob” Mercier, a chief engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, earned the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force Airbreathing Propulsion Subcommittee Lifetime Achievement Award, Dec. 8, 2020 during a virtual awards
Jan. 29, 2021
AFRL Information Directorate estimates FY 2020 total annual economic impact at $501 million, 7.4% increase from FY 2019

ROME, N.Y. (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory Information Directorate, located in Rome, New York, leads the Air Force and Nation in Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) and Cyber science, technology, research, and development. It has a substantial economic
Jan. 28, 2021
AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate celebrates annual awards recipients

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate recently held their 68th Annual Awards Ceremony to honor its top achievers. Masters of ceremony were Dr. Jonathan Spowart from the Materials Integrity Branch and Mr. Keith
Jan. 27, 2021
AFRL holds new directed energy wargaming event

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate recently held its newest wargaming, modeling and simulation event at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEUCE, under the leadership of the directorate’s wargaming
Jan. 26, 2021
NASA astronaut returns to Kirtland in new role

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Renowned NASA astronaut and Space Force Director of Test and Evaluation, Col. Nick Hague recently visited Kirtland Air Force Base space agencies including the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and Air Force Operational Test
Jan. 21, 2021
AFRL awards $3.5 million to Biotechnology Grand Challenge winners

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Biotechnology Grand Challenges have been awarded to four teams in effort to spearhead innovation among small businesses in the field of biotechnology for the Department of Defense. The challenges, each of which comes
Jan. 21, 2021
WeaponONE demonstrates Digital Twin technologies that deliver software-defined weapon capabilities to the battlefield

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – The Air Force Research Laboratory Munitions Directorate recently hosted a demonstration of the Team Eglin Weapons Digital Enterprise WeaponONE (W1) program at the Virtual Warfare Munitions Simulator. The demonstration highlighted the significant progress made in the past
Jan. 20, 2021
AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range observes asteroid satellite

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) - “I was wrong,” said Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Jack Drummond, when looking back to his early research on asteroids and their orbiting moons. Drummond is an astronomer at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate Starfire Optical Range (SOR) located
Jan. 19, 2021
AFRL, AFLCMC laboratory collaboration addresses pilot oxygen concerns

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have partnered to create a facility for investigation of in-flight oxygen issues, achieving operational capability with the first testing activity, the evaluation and
Jan. 15, 2021
AFOSR Funding Opportunity: International partnership to spark bold new quantum research

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFRL/AFOSR), the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), and the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) this week announced a joint solicitation