AFRL modifies rescue device to improve first responder safety

by Patrick Londergan | Jun 6, 2024 | Integrated Capabilities, News

WRIGHT- PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — An Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Center for Rapid Innovation, or CRI, concept to help military first responders lift heavy objects and quickly exit contested environments went from idea to field testing in...

AFRL scientists, engineers promote STEM careers at WPAFB Spring Job Shadow Day

by Patrick Londergan | May 28, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Scientists and engineers from across the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, helped to inspire the next generation of STEM professionals at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, or WPAFB, Spring Job Shadow Day, March...

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...

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 senior leaders encourage Ohio youth at annual robotics state championship

by Patrick Londergan | Mar 20, 2024 | News, STEM

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) — Middle and high school students joined senior Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, leaders at Hobart Arena in Troy, Ohio, March 9, 2024, to participate in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology,...