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Sept. 23, 2024
Small Business Summit - AFRL on track to exceed 2023 small business performance metrics

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is on track to meet or exceed its small business performance metrics from the previous fiscal year, according to Brian McJilton, director of the AFRL Small Business Office, who recently spoke at the enterprise-wide Small Business Summit held at Dayton Tech
Aug. 26, 2024
Strategic improvements unveiled for AFWERX's Open Topic program

Members from across AFWERX met in person for a process improvement off-site event to focus on making critical changes to the Open Topic program here June 25-26, 2024. The two-day exercise incorporated AFWERX cross-divisional teams to address the solicitation schedule, automation needs and additional
Aug. 12, 2024
AFWERX cultivates innovation experts through fellowship program; applications accepted through August 16

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – AFWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Department of the Air Force and powered by the Air Force Research Laboratory, is advancing cross-training for technical experts through its Traditional Fellowship program and is accepting applications for the next
Jan. 19, 2024
Air Force Global Strike Command selected for $18 million research allocation

AFGSC is the first major command selected for a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Specific Topic under AFWERX with four approved solicitations and two pending applications.
Jan. 4, 2024
AFRL announces record-breaking FY23 small business awards during Small Business Summit

Significant funding growth in fiscal year 2023 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, contract awards to the small business sector was announced by Brian McJilton, director of the AFRL Small Business office during the lab’s first enterprise-wide Small Business Summit, held Nov. 28-30, 2023, at
Aug. 17, 2023
AFWERX reaches out to academia for new technologies

DAYTON, Ohio (AFRL) – AFWERX, the innovation arm for the Department of the Air Force, met with entrepreneurs, educators and researchers at a recent Academia Days outreach event in Dayton, Ohio, to hear about their dual-use and defense-specific technologies. “Some of America’s most disruptive and
April 25, 2023
Air Force pilots reach new program milestones in electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Four Air Force pilots remotely flew a Joby electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft at the company’s Marina, California, manufacturing facility April 20. They were the first Air Force personnel to assume remote pilot-in-command
Jan. 12, 2023
AFWERX, Army partner in first multiservice contracting sprint

The AFWERX contracting team partnered with two Army organizations to execute the first multiservice Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, and Small Business Technology Transfer, or STTR, contracting sprint. The exercise, in which AFWERX partnered with the Army Futures Command, or AFC, and
April 14, 2022
AFVentures opens opportunity window for STRATFI/TACFI program

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – AFWERX AFVentures has issued a notice of opportunity for its Strategic Funding Increase (STRATFI) and Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) programs. This opportunity, open until June 30, 2022, gives Department of the Air Force (DAF) SBIR/STTR companies
March 14, 2022
U.S. Air Force and BETA Technologies make history with first Airman flight of an electric aircraft through AFWERX Agility Prime Program

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – United States Air Force pilots Hank “Hog” Griffiths and Maj. Jonathan Appleby flew BETA Technologies’ electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, ALIA, as the first-ever Airmen to fly an electric aircraft with a military airworthiness March

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Small Business Summit - AFRL on track to exceed 2023 small business performance metrics

Strategic improvements unveiled for AFWERX's Open Topic program

AFWERX cultivates innovation experts through fellowship program; applications accepted through August 16

Air Force Global Strike Command selected for $18 million research allocation

AFRL announces record-breaking FY23 small business awards during Small Business Summit

AFWERX reaches out to academia for new technologies

Air Force pilots reach new program milestones in electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft

AFWERX, Army partner in first multiservice contracting sprint

AFVentures opens opportunity window for STRATFI/TACFI program

U.S. Air Force and BETA Technologies make history with first Airman flight of an electric aircraft through AFWERX Agility Prime Program