AFRL enhances workforce through STEM outreach programs

by Patrick Londergan | May 6, 2024 | Munitions, NEWS, STEM

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFRL) – 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...

USAF Test Pilot School and DARPA announce breakthrough in aerospace machine learning

by Patrick Londergan | May 1, 2024 | Integrated Capabilities, NEWS

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — 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...

INTEGRATED COCKPIT SENSING SYSTEM (ICS)

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 23, 2024 | Human Performance, Success Stories

WHAT IS IT? The ICS system provides a modular, airworthy platform for comprehensive physiological, life-support and environmental monitoring to improve pilot safety and performance. A team from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing, Human...

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

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 22, 2024 | AEROSPACE

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFRL) – 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...

AFRL-developed physiological monitoring system undergoes flight tests

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 16, 2024 | Human Performance, NEWS

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — An Air Force Research Laboratory-developed physiological monitoring system for pilots completed a series of F-16 flight tests March 4-17, 2024, at the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, or TPS, at Edwards Air Force...