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Aug. 2, 2024
AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate celebrated the opening of the Manufacturing, Industrial Technologies and Energy Division’s Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems, or CAMS, Laboratory during a ribbon-cutting ceremony July 23, 2024. The
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
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:
Nov. 18, 2022
AFRL enhances Computed Tomography Lab with state-of-the-art infrastructure, imaging capabilities

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted an official tour of its recently renovated Computed Tomography Laboratory Nov. 9, 2022.
Nov. 17, 2022
AFRL’s Additive Manufacturing Laboratory celebrates newly renovated facility, addition of custom 3D-printing system

The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Nov. 9, 2022, to celebrate the reopening of its recently renovated Additive Manufacturing Laboratory, as well as the installation of a novel 3D-printing system for aerospace-grade materials.
March 10, 2021
AFRL partners with Cornell to use micro-beam scanning technology for inspecting composite materials

The Air Force research Laboratory, in partnership with the Materials Solutions Network at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) of Cornell University, has developed a tool that can look directly inside of and instantaneously inspect the structure of composite components while they are
Dec. 23, 2019
Air Force Research Lab forms materials-focused Center of Excellence with Carnegie Mellon

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Looking to cultivate the ideal future workforce in materials research, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, together with the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, has awarded a multi-million-dollar cooperative

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AFRL Collaborative Automation for Manufacturing Systems Laboratory officially opens

AFRL honors its newest senior scientist at induction ceremony

AFRL researchers pave the way to lighter, faster additively manufactured rocket engines

AFRL enhances Computed Tomography Lab with state-of-the-art infrastructure, imaging capabilities

AFRL’s Additive Manufacturing Laboratory celebrates newly renovated facility, addition of custom 3D-printing system

AFRL partners with Cornell to use micro-beam scanning technology for inspecting composite materials

Air Force Research Lab forms materials-focused Center of Excellence with Carnegie Mellon