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AFRL COVID-19 Response Video
Just as the Air Force Research Laboratory delivers superior technology to warfighters, AFRL stands ready to develop critical solutions in times of crisis. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, AFRL is contributing to national response efforts with vast, wide-ranging support.
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COVID-19 RESPONSE EFFORTS
The Air Force Research Laboratory has been supporting COVID-19 Operations and R&D Activities, mostly in our 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW), since the beginning of the pandemic.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRAINING
The Center for Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills, or C-STARS, in Omaha, Nebraska, is a medical training program offered through the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine (USAFSAM), in partnership with the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Nebraska Medicine.
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AIRCRAFT DECONTAMINATION
To ensure the health and safety of Airmen amid the pandemic, a team from the Air Force Research Laboratory evaluated various aircraft decontamination methods and identified the use of heat as the most promising technique. Since the coronavirus spreads easily and may remain viable on surfaces for days under certain conditions, transporting infected patients aboard aircraft places aircrews and passengers at risk for potential exposure.
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DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT TITLE III
DPA Title III is a unique Presidential authority administered by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy. As one of three active authorities, first signed into law in 1950 and renewed in 2018, Title III provides authorities to the President enabling investments in industry to create, maintain, protect, expand, or restore domestic industrial base capabilities.
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EPI LAB – EPIDEMIOLOGY REFERENCE LABORATORY
The Epi Lab, as it’s commonly referred to, is the Air Force’s sole clinical reference laboratory, and because of this, has proven experience testing respiratory infection samples and working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention processes. This lab has been operating since 1990.
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