NEUROSCIENCE – 2024

Small Business Summit – AFRL on track to exceed 2023 small business performance metrics

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is on track to meet or exceed its small business performance metrics from the previous fiscal year, according to Brian McJilton, director of the AFRL Small Business Office, who recently spoke at the enterprise-wide Small Business Summit held at Dayton Tech […]

AFRL aims to accelerate development of software-enabled weapons

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AFRL) – Air Force Research Laboratory technical directorates AFWERX and Munitions teamed up to host a Collider event aimed at exploring commercial solutions for software-enabled weapons at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, July 17-18, 2024. Colliders give Air Force leaders the opportunity to share the same room with industry to spark interaction […]

AFWERX, SpaceWERX announce Strategic Funding Increase at South by Southwest

AUSTIN, Texas – AFWERX, the innovation arm of the Department of the Air Force and powered by the Air Force Research Laboratory, and SpaceWERX, the innovation arm of the U.S. Space Force and a unique division within AFWERX, announced the Program Year 2024 Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, a contract award selections from its Phase […]

2 AFRL scientists selected as AIAA Class of 2024 Fellows

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Drs. Charles J. Cross and Gregory W. Reich, of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, were recognized as 2024 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AIAA, Fellows, in a Feb. 8, 2024, news release. “The Class of 2024 AIAA Honorary Fellows and Fellows are among the […]

AFRL announces record-breaking FY23 small business awards during Small Business Summit

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Significant funding growth in fiscal year 2023 Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, contract awards to the small business sector was announced by Brian McJilton, director of the AFRL Small Business office during the lab’s first enterprise-wide Small Business Summit, held Nov. 28-30, 2023, at Dayton Tech Town, […]

AFRL, National Science Foundation, academia converge in Miami Valley

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO (AFRL) — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, the National Science Foundation, or NSF, and representatives from some of the nation’s leading academic institutions joined forces at the Wright Brothers Institute in downtown Dayton, Ohio, for the NSF’s Designing Materials to Revolutionize our Future, or DMREF, and AFRL Kickoff […]

AFOSR awards $21.5M to scientists, engineers via Young Investigator Program

ARLINGTON, Va. – The Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, the basic research arm of the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, will award approximately $21.5 million in grants to 48 scientists and engineers from 36 institutions and businesses in 20 states under the fiscal year 2024 Young Investigator Program, or YIP. According […]

AFRL’s Information Directorate receives SMART SEED Grants

Rome, N.Y. (AFRL) — Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, scientists at the Information Directorate received research funding through a Department of Defense, or DOD, Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation, or SMART, Program grant. Dr. Anthony Rizzo at the AFRL Information Directorate will use the funds to investigate ultra-low energy photonic deep learning and […]

NEUROSCIENCE – 2023