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...
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...
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...
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...
by Patrick Londergan | Apr 12, 2024 | Basic Research, News
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) – It’s been 10 years since the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, successfully launched the astronomy outreach program called Aloha Explorations at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, or AMOS, in Maui, Hawaii....
by Patrick Londergan | Apr 5, 2024 | Directed Energy, News
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL’s, Directed Energy Directorate, completed the build of its new Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation Version II, or GRAILE-II, system Jan. 18, 2024. The...