by Patrick Londergan | Apr 7, 2025 | Basic Research, Success Stories
An AFRL University Center of Excellence (UCoE) that performs fundamental multidisciplinary research to endow future supersonic and hypersonic weapons with game-changing performance through active morphing without significant size, weight, or power penalties. The...
by Patrick Londergan | Nov 7, 2023 | Basic Research, Success Stories
KEY FUNDING AREAS The Air Force Office of Scientific Research’s (AFOSR) Cognitive & Computational Neuroscience program funds high-risk/high-impact basic research on the mechanisms of perception, cognition, and behavior and at the intersection of neuroscience and...
by Patrick Londergan | Apr 11, 2023 | Basic Research, Success Stories
FIRST SPACE BASED NEUROMORPHIC CAMERA WHAT IS IT? Falcon Neuro is an experiment flying on the International Space Station (ISS) designed and built by cadets and faculty at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA). Falcon Neuro demonstrates for the first time the...
by Patrick Londergan | Jan 27, 2023 | Aerospace, Basic Research, Success Stories
BOLT II PROJECT ADVANCES HYPERSONICS RESEARCH The BOLT II flight experiment launched in March 2022 from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The goal of the Air Force Research Laboratory/Air Force Office of...
by AFRL PA | Dec 16, 2021 | Basic Research, Success Stories
The Space University Research Initiative (SURI) program is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Chief Technologist Office and encourages participation between academia, the Air Force Research...
by AFRL PA | Mar 27, 2020 | Basic Research, Success Stories
What is Space Situational Awareness? Space SituationalAwareness (SSA) is the all-encompassing term for the study, monitoring and mitigation of the Earth’s orbital environment, typically related to satellites. Space and space assets directly affect all critical parts...
