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...

University students to present new aerospace propulsion concepts at Air Force Museum

by Patrick Londergan | Apr 15, 2024 | Aerospace

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program, or APOP, will hold its 15th annual symposium and poster session at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, April 19, 2024, from noon to 3 p.m. The...