Bioprincipic Research

Bioprincipic Research

Our interdisciplinary team of biologists, physicists and engineers research the ways in which biological systems sense and navigate through their environments in order to understand the principles driving the efficient, robust performance they exhibit.  The team...
New Steel Alloy

New Steel Alloy

Our researchers recently invented and patented a new weapons-grade steel alloy that reduces cost and improves the performance of many air-delivered weapons. The formulation was developed in under a year and cuts cost by removing a pricey ingredient, that was believed...
AgilePod™

AgilePod™

The ability to adapt a mission at a moment’s notice is a key tenet of the Air Force drive for flexibility in air power. For warfighters in the intelligence community, the AgilePod, makes that flexibility even easier on the field. This premier intelligence,...
Tactical Assault Kit (TAK)

Tactical Assault Kit (TAK)

The Android Team Awareness Kit, ATAK for short, is a technology developed by AFRL scientists and engineers, and over the past several years of using and refining in real-world combat zones by Special Operations forces and warfighters, this technology was has been...
Synthetic Biology

Synthetic Biology

AFRL is leveraging advances in synthetic biology to optimize Airmen performance and health, and to develop next-generation materials to provide an asymmetric advantage to our warfighters and weapon systems. Synthetic biology, where biosciences, information sciences...