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Former AFRL director inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fame

Former AFRL director inducted into Engineering and Science Hall of Fam...

George P. Peterson served as Director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate from 1974-1977 and then again from 1980-1985 and was instrumental in the development of advan... More

Engineer by day, author by night: AFRL Materials and

Engineer by day, author by night: AFRL Materials and

Engineer by day, author by night: AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate engineer TJ Turner demonstrates a conformal body armor prototype, part of a project he worked on to develop more comfortable armore... More

AFRL seeks public input for a state-of-the-art mobile weather platform

AFRL seeks public input for a state-of-the-art mobile weather platform

AFRL’s APTO challenges the public to come up with an improved method for dropping humanitarian aid to the public and vital supplies to the warfighter. It will replace the current mobile weather system. (U.S. Ai... More

The Joint Training and Experimentation Center’s Les

The Joint Training and Experimentation Center’s Les

The Joint Training and Experimentation Center’s Les Atkinson, repairs a vanguard robot at the facility, at the Wyoming National Guard’s Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, in Guernsey, Wyo. The Joint Training ... More

Fueling the future: Air Force Title III program working to “home-grow” biofuels for DOD, industry

Fueling the future: Air Force Title III program working to “home-grow”...

The C-17 Globemaster III was certified for unlimited use of hydro-processed blended biofuels known as hydro-treated renewable jet fuels, officials announced Feb. 9, 2011. (U. S. Air Force courtesy photo/Staff S... More

Dr. Khanh Pham received the Leadership Award in the

Dr. Khanh Pham received the Leadership Award in the

Dr. Khanh Pham received the Leadership Award in the Engineer/Scientist of the Year (Government category) during the 2018 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers awards banquet.

Materion Corporation’s beryllium plant in Elmore, Ohio,

Materion Corporation’s beryllium plant in Elmore, Ohio,

Materion Corporation’s beryllium plant in Elmore, Ohio, showcases Title III involvement which was instrumental in establishing the modern beryllium production facility.

AFRL senior scientist receives society’s highest honor

AFRL senior scientist receives society’s highest honor

Dr. Daniel Miracle, a senior scientist in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, will receive The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Fellow Award on March 14, 2018, in P... More

AFRL researcher honored with Presidential Early Career Award

AFRL researcher honored with Presidential Early Career Award

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dr. Adam Pilchak, a materials research engineer at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, is the recipient of the 2017 Presidential ... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Jeffrey

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Jeffrey

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Jeffrey Calcaterra, the Structural Materials Evaluation Team Lead in the Systems Support Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laborat... More

Emerging leader named supervisor of the year

Emerging leader named supervisor of the year

Amber Davis was selected as the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Supervisor of the Year.

Corps looks to increase comms, lethality with next-gen hearing system

Corps looks to increase comms, lethality with next-gen hearing system

The Marine Corps released a request for information for a suite of hearing enhancement devices to help Marines communicate better and increase their lethality on the battlefield. Marine Corps Systems Command wi... More

AFRL researcher awarded for contributions to aerospace industry standards

AFRL researcher awarded for contributions to aerospace industry standa...

Mr. Alan Fletcher of the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has been named a recipient of SAE International’s Franklin W. Kolk Air Transportation Progress Award for his contributions toward the establ... More

AFRL researcher honored with 2019 SASE award

AFRL researcher honored with 2019 SASE award

Dr. Vikas Varshney of the Air Force Research Laboratory is one of four AFRL personnel chosen to receive the 2019 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers award.

AFRL bio-signature research may save firefighters' lives

AFRL bio-signature research may save firefighters' lives

Air Force Staff Sgt. Misty Hobbs, medical technician, Air Force Research Laboratory, 711th Human Performance Wing, Human Effectiveness Directorate (RH), and Air Force Tech. Sgt. Andrew Jimenez, medical technici... More

AFRL senior scientist elected to National Academy

AFRL senior scientist elected to National Academy

Dr. Richard Vaia of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate was recently elected a member to the National Academy of Engineering.

Recent National Academy of Engineers inductee appointed Chief Scientist at AFRL Manufacturing Directorate

Recent National Academy of Engineers inductee appointed Chief Scientis...

Dr. Richard A. Vaia, Chief Scientist of AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering Class of 2020.

Researcher Dr. Gavi Begtrup and University of Cincinnati

Researcher Dr. Gavi Begtrup and University of Cincinnati

Researcher Dr. Gavi Begtrup and University of Cincinnati doctoral student Daniel Rose read Air Force Research Laboratory researcher Dr. Joshua Hagen's sweat sensor using a smartphone app. The sensor, which is w... More

AFRL demonstrates improved measurement capabilities for aircraft engine inlets

AFRL demonstrates improved measurement capabilities for aircraft engin...

AFRL completed a series of tests to enable the use of the Terahertz Coating Thickness tool, shown here mounted on a robotic arm along with a spray attachment, for F-35 inlet production. This tool is a non-cont... More

AFRL is researching game-changing technologies like

AFRL is researching game-changing technologies like

AFRL is researching game-changing technologies like autonomy, hypersonics, directed energy, and nanoscience to give Air Force warfighters the edge in any fight.

Air Force expeditionary energy demo forges ahead

Air Force expeditionary energy demo forges ahead

Part of AFRL's Forward Operating Base of the Future demonstration is one complete expeditionary microgrid system at Basic Expeditionary Airmen Skills Training (BEAST), Lackland AFB, San Antonio. Monocrystalline... More

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas – The Air Force Forward Operating Base of the Future demonstration focuses on alternative energy sources such as smart controllers, microgrids, advanced batteries and sola... More

AFRL XQ-58A Valkyrie expands flight envelope in fourth test

AFRL XQ-58A Valkyrie expands flight envelope in fourth test

The Air Force Research Laboratory and Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc., completed the successful fourth flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle, at ... More

AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office seeks innovative tech solutions

AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office seeks innovative tech solutions

Through a recently-announced Advanced Research Announcement, AFRL’s Advanced Power Technology Office is reaching out to innovators for ideas to enhance energy security and readiness for Air Force installations ... More

Capt. Kevin W. O'Brien is Operations Flight Commander

Capt. Kevin W. O'Brien is Operations Flight Commander

Capt. Kevin W. O'Brien is Operations Flight Commander of AFROTC Detachment 520 and a Ph.D. candidate in Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where he is doing research on using air pressure to morph... More

AFRL Damage Registration Sensor improves high-performance engine exhaust inspections

AFRL Damage Registration Sensor improves high-performance engine exhau...

An aircraft maintainer demonstrates the Auto-Scan: Inlet and Exhaust Damage Registration Sensor. This tool, developed through an AFRL Critical Small Business Innovative Research contract with Intelligent Automa... More

Air Force Senior Technologist named ACS Fellow

Air Force Senior Technologist named ACS Fellow

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Timothy J. Bunning, Chief Scientist, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, was elected to the 2017 Class of the American Chemical So... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Thomas Lockhart (center),

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Thomas Lockhart (center),

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Thomas Lockhart (center), Director, AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, and Chad Watchorn (right), Executive Director, Regional STEM Collaborative, speak with intern Conno... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Lawrence

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Lawrence

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Lawrence Drummy, a material scientist in the Functional Materials Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Lab (left) provides an overvie... More

AFRL gives helping hand to operators with Tactical Fast Rope Gloves

AFRL gives helping hand to operators with Tactical Fast Rope Gloves

A Tech Warrior participant uses Tactical Fast Rope Gloves, developed through the Junior Force Warfighters Operations program, to descend a rope during the 2016 Tech Warrior exercises, landing safely and experie... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Brig. Gen. Stacey T. Hawkins, Director, Logistcs, Engineering and Force Protection, Air Mobility Command (center) learns more about additive manufacturing capabilities fo... More

AFRL researcher awarded by Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

AFRL researcher awarded by Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers

Air Force Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Steve Kim received the 2020 Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers Professional Achievement Award for his innovative research and persistent drive to tackle challe... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Autonomous Research System, or ARES, uses artificial intelligence to design, execute and analyze experiments at a pace much faster tha... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – The flexible lithium-ion

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – The flexible lithium-ion

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – The flexible lithium-ion batteries developed by researchers at Air Force Research Laboratory are able to maintain a steady voltage discharge following extreme mechanical stress test... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – 1st Lt. Jason

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – 1st Lt. Jason

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – 1st Lt. Jason Goins, a materials research engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, shows a prototype of a new flexible body armor plate. The design makes the use of... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Dr. Michael Caton (left),

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Dr. Michael Caton (left),

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio – Dr. Michael Caton (left), the Assistant Chief Scientist at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, discusses his mentoring philosophy with a pote... More

Capt. Lance Wilhelm creates a prototype design for

Capt. Lance Wilhelm creates a prototype design for

Capt. Lance Wilhelm creates a prototype design for a flexible, conformal body armor vest using the computerized sewing equipment available in the AFRL Maker Hub. The prototype will allow the AFRL research team ... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Team ETHOS’s

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Team ETHOS’s

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Team ETHOS’s pumpkin chucking machine, the Phoenix, launches a pumpkin through the sky during the annual Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Pumpkin Chucking competi... More

AFRL-led aircraft coating project awarded as top-100 innovative technology

AFRL-led aircraft coating project awarded as top-100 innovative techno...

Test specimens are prepared for coating with the Aerocron® 2100 Electrocoat Primer during a recent demonstration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. This water-based, chrome-free, primer offers protection comp... More

Metals Affordability Initiative Hub enhances data exchange for researchers, teams

Metals Affordability Initiative Hub enhances data exchange for researc...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Clare Paul, Lead for Applications and Analytics of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate accesses the Metals Affordability Initia... More

AFRL Senior Scientist Emeritus elected to National Academy

AFRL Senior Scientist Emeritus elected to National Academy

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Dr. Sheldon (Lee) Semiatin handles metal samples in the Experimental Materials Processing Laboratory. It serves as both a state-of-the-art laboratory for basic and applied re... More

AFRL researcher achieves society honor

AFRL researcher achieves society honor

Dr. Sheldon (Lee) Semiatin, senior scientist, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, uses a Gleeble machine for thermomechanical processing of aerospace alloys. This machine aid... More

AFRL program turns junior workforce into rapid innovators

AFRL program turns junior workforce into rapid innovators

1st Lt. Stuart Baker demonstrates the portability of the JFWORX-developed Roco Atlas Casualty Carrier. This strong and lightweight tactical ladder can also function as bridge between structures and as a stretch... More

AFRL leader named ASM International Fellow

AFRL leader named ASM International Fellow

Dr. Roland Dutton, chief, Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Division, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, was named an ASM International Fellow at a ceremony in Salt ... More

AFRL looks to fine tune process of 3D printing composite inks

AFRL looks to fine tune process of 3D printing composite inks

The Polymer Matrix Composites Materials and Processing research team used beamline instrumentation at Brookhaven National Laboratory to capture real-time imaging data of 3D-printed composite inks that could be ... More

Dr. Shekhar Guha, senior scientist, Materials and

Dr. Shekhar Guha, senior scientist, Materials and

Dr. Shekhar Guha, senior scientist, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, will be formally named an OSA Fellow in a ceremony in San Jose, California, May 2017. Guha designs exp... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio— Dr. Dan Berrigan

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio— Dr. Dan Berrigan

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio— Dr. Dan Berrigan points to an embedded antenna on an MQ-9 aircraft part made possible through functional applications of additive manufacturing. Flexible circuits, embedd... More

During the series of tests at the High Energy Laser

During the series of tests at the High Energy Laser

During the series of tests at the High Energy Laser System Test Facility at White Sands Missile Range, the Demonstrator Laser Weapon System (DLWS), acting as a ground-based test surrogate for the SHiELD system,... More

The Remote Access Nondestructive Evaluation Snake arm

The Remote Access Nondestructive Evaluation Snake arm

The Remote Access Nondestructive Evaluation Snake arm system is shown inspecting fasteners during a recent demonstration at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. (U.S. Air Force photo/Charles Buynak)

AFRL LASER Research being conducted at Kirtland Air

AFRL LASER Research being conducted at Kirtland Air

AFRL LASER Research being conducted at Kirtland Air Force Base.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Zachary

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Zachary

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Zachary Farrell, a research scientist with UES in the Nanoelectronics Branch of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, examines l... More

Digital Thread laces decision-making, data for Air Force acquisition

Digital Thread laces decision-making, data for Air Force acquisition

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- Dr. John Wertz, a materials research scientist in the Materials State Awareness Branch, Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, demonstra... More

PEARL microgrid project demonstrates new possibilities in military energy resiliency

PEARL microgrid project demonstrates new possibilities in military ene...

A newly-installed 134 kW photovoltaic array at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, is part of the Pacific Energy Assurance and Resiliency Laboratory, a renewable energy microgrid project demonstrating new w... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Members of the Air Force, Army and Navy Research Laboratories visit the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate to learn of the unique cap... More

HyperThought poised to break down barriers in information sharing

HyperThought poised to break down barriers in information sharing

AFRL researcher Matt Jacobsen (second from left), developer of the HyperThought data management and sharing software, strategizes with team members Kevin Porter, James Fourman, and Jason Thiese during a recent ... More

AFRL Materials researchers keeping Wright “B” Flyer aloft

AFRL Materials researchers keeping Wright “B” Flyer aloft

AFRL materials engineer Alan Oquendo demonstrates the failed flywheel assembly and engine cooling fan that resulted in a non-injury incident involving the Wright “B” Flyer replica aircraft. Oquendo and the Mat... More

AFRL lighting the way for military air crews

AFRL lighting the way for military air crews

New portable temporary landing zone lighting, designed by AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate junior force researchers, offers a portable, reliable, and more fully-featured solution to aging legacy por... More

A prototype of the Actuated Pin Antenna Reflector is

A prototype of the Actuated Pin Antenna Reflector is

A prototype of the Actuated Pin Antenna Reflector is displayed. Capt. Daniel Stambovsky, a physicist assigned to the 32nd Intelligence Squadron at Fort Meade, Maryland, designed the prototype during his previou... More

Next generation coatings booth poised to save Air Force millions in energy

Next generation coatings booth poised to save Air Force millions in en...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE, Utah -- A next generation F-35 coatings application booth at Hill Air Force Base is set to become initially operational by October 2017. The state-of-the-art coatings booth project, led by ... More

AFRL’s Advanced Power Technology Office efficiently ‘lifts’ C-5 maintainers

AFRL’s Advanced Power Technology Office efficiently ‘lifts’ C-5 mainta...

WARNER ROBINS AIR LOGISTICS COMPLEX, Georgia -- The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Advanced Power Technology Office is in the process of testing a newly designed hybrid electric and battery powered mobile dock... More

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia – A maintainer removes

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia – A maintainer removes

ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia – A maintainer removes an air inlet on the underside of the wing of a C-5M Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft during a periodic maintenance cycle. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Christopher

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Christopher

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Christopher Tabor discusses potential applications of liquid metal alloys during the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Open House, April 7. More than 200 guests... More

AFRL Celebrates a century of success at Open House celebration

AFRL Celebrates a century of success at Open House celebration

Dr. Abigail Juhl, a researcher in the functional materials branch, experiments with her daughter in the STEM outreach area during the inaugural Air Force Research Laboratory's Materials and Manufacturing Direct... More

Metals Affordability Initiative brings together Air Force and industry for greater innovation, agility

Metals Affordability Initiative brings together Air Force and industry...

Through a Metals Affordability Initiative project, AFRL and industry partners study advanced techniques to reduce cost and lead time for the production of aerospace metallic components. The Air Force Research L... More

SAMPE honors AFRL with inaugural Organizational Excellence Award

SAMPE honors AFRL with inaugural Organizational Excellence Award

Mr. George Schmitt, Director of International Programs in AFRL’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, receives the inaugural SAMPE North America Organizational Excellence Award on behalf of the Directorate ... More

These energy-harvesting wind turbines in Kotzebue,

These energy-harvesting wind turbines in Kotzebue,

These energy-harvesting wind turbines in Kotzebue, Alaska, are part of the Energy Assurance at Remote Radar Sites project, a one-year effort managed by the AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office to demonstrate r... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s AgilePod has commenced a series of flight tests aboard a Douglas DC-3 aircraft in preparation for integration on the Air Force MQ-9 ... More

AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office tests high-efficiency engine for unmanned aircraft

AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office tests high-efficiency engine for...

The AFRL Advanced Power Technology Office’s High Efficiency Innovative Aviation Diesel Engine is shown here in the Arnold Engineering Development Center T-11 Test Cell. The Graflight engine, developed by Engine... More

LEGACY (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships

LEGACY (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships

LEGACY (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth) students enjoy a group activity as part of the program’s Craftsman camp events. AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate volunteers... More

The additive manufacturing process involves depositing

The additive manufacturing process involves depositing

The additive manufacturing process involves depositing thin layers of composite materials on top of each other. AFRL Composite Materials and Processing team researchers used the ultra-bright X-ray at the Nation... More

AFRL team changing the paradigm of composites materials research

AFRL team changing the paradigm of composites materials research

AFRL research materials engineer Dr. Dhriti Nepal of the AFRL Composites Performance team performs nano-IR characterization of a nanocomposite material in the microscopy laboratory. (U.S. Air Force photo/David Dixon)

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers at the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, have demonstrated the ability to print solar cells on three-dimensional surface... More

AFRL ADAPTS performance platform supports COVID-19 tracking for Airmen

AFRL ADAPTS performance platform supports COVID-19 tracking for Airmen

The Air Force Research Laboratory performance assessment platform ADAPTS, which stands for Airman Data Analysis and Performance Tracking System, is a helpful and flexible tool for COVID-19 data collection and m... More

Laboratory-produced examples of chafing into a titanium

Laboratory-produced examples of chafing into a titanium

Laboratory-produced examples of chafing into a titanium tube, one of many tests conducted by AFRL researchers to replicate wear through cold-spray applied coating into tubing material beneath. AFRL helped devel... More

Graduate student from the University of Texas El Paso,

Graduate student from the University of Texas El Paso,

Graduate student from the University of Texas El Paso, Cristian Orozco, works in the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate over the summer. One of his duties includes working with a vacuum chamber for thin fi... More

AFRL, Air Force Research Laboratory, science, engineering, senior scientist, Air Force, materials science, ASM International, achievement, honor

AFRL, Air Force Research Laboratory, science, engineering, senior scie...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Sheldon ‘Lee’ Semiatin, the Air Force Senior Scientist for Materials Processing and Processing Science, has been named the recipient of the 2018 ASM International Alb... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –A member of

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –A member of

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio –A member of the Flexible Materials and Processes team at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate exhibits an additively manufactured el... More

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Researchers at the Air Force Research Laboratory are exploring origami concepts in relation to science, physics, mathematics and engineering to create new solutions for t... More

Dr. Allan Katz, Program Manager, High Temperature

Dr. Allan Katz, Program Manager, High Temperature

Dr. Allan Katz, Program Manager, High Temperature Silicon-Carbide-Fiber-Reinforced Silicon Carbide Composites for Turbines of the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate observes an oxyacetylene torch test to s... More

736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron personnel installed

736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron personnel installed

736th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron personnel installed 12 Microvanes, six on each side at the rear of a C-17 Globemaster III fuselage, Sept. 6, 2017, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. The 3D printed glass bead fil... More

Dayton, Ohio – Col. Charles Ormsby, Acting Director,

Dayton, Ohio – Col. Charles Ormsby, Acting Director,

Dayton, Ohio – Col. Charles Ormsby, Acting Director, AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, views displays at the site of the original Wright Brothers’ Bicycle Shop in downtown Dayton, September 13. Orms... More

Historic AFRL research building receives new mission during dedication

Historic AFRL research building receives new mission during dedication

Capt. Eric Yerly, Air Force Research Laboratory project lead, verifies test data to flown data for the Low Cost Attritable Strike Demonstrator Copper Bird Test at Building 19, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, O... More

Disrupting the research process: changing materials science with robotics, AI and autonomy

Disrupting the research process: changing materials science with robot...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Dr. Benji Maruyama, a research scientist at teh Air Force Research Laboratory, makes adjustments on the ARES system. The ARES Autonomous Research System, developed by the... More

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Master Sgt. Gary Hasecuster, an

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Master Sgt. Gary Hasecuster, an

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Master Sgt. Gary Hasecuster, an investigator at the 88th Security Forces Squadron and Tech Warrior instructor, provides hand-to-hand combatives instruction to a participant during training week... More

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Dustin Huber, Naval Medical Research

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Dustin Huber, Naval Medical Research

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Dustin Huber, Naval Medical Research Unit—Dayton, explains new technology to monitor a warrior’s back lumbar function Sept. 26, 2017, during the Tech Warrior exercise at the National Center for M... More

AFRL Materials Integrity researchers provide rapid answers to big challenges

AFRL Materials Integrity researchers provide rapid answers to big chal...

AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate researchers Jim Hierholzer (left) and Corey Boltz review images from the Electrical and Electronic Materials Evaluation laboratory scanning electron microscope. The... More

Researchers from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing

Researchers from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing

Researchers from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, along with Northeastern University, developed an ultra-compact antenna smaller than a flea. This innovation could help miniaturize or add great... More

Capt. Brady Ross from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s

Capt. Brady Ross from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s

Capt. Brady Ross from the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate provides guidance to his team under the watch of an instructor during a dismounted exercise at the training area on Wright-Patterson... More

Materials and Manufacturing Directorate researchers win Affiliate Societies Council awards

Materials and Manufacturing Directorate researchers win Affiliate Soci...

Dr. Eric Lindgren, (left) Dr. Joy Haley and Doug Carter will be recognized at an upcoming ASC awards banquet in October.

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A technique

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A technique

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A technique called Hybrid 3D Printing, developed by AFRL researchers in collaboration with the Wyss Institute at Harvard University, uses additive manufacturing to integr... More

Despite a soggy track, the race team from the AFRL

Despite a soggy track, the race team from the AFRL

Despite a soggy track, the race team from the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Materials Integrity Branch successfully completed the 24 Hours of LeMons race in South Haven, Michigan, on October 14-1... More

Nobel Laureate returns to AFRL to talk determination, discovery

Nobel Laureate returns to AFRL to talk determination, discovery

Nobel Laureate Dr. Dan Shechtman visited the AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Directorate on November 8, 2017, to share his research, advice, and groundbreaking discovery of quasicrystals as part of the AFRL Te... More

2nd Lt. Brent Young, AFRL researcher and member of

2nd Lt. Brent Young, AFRL researcher and member of

2nd Lt. Brent Young, AFRL researcher and member of the Ejection Seat Survival Kit Enhancement, Modernization and Optimization team, tests a new and improved knife for the kit. Testing and consensus from the 22T... More

AFRL research to enable next-gen flexible, wireless communications

AFRL research to enable next-gen flexible, wireless communications

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio—Scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory have demonstrated the growth and transfer of flexible Gallium Nitride devices which can be used to amplify communication sig... More

AFRL licenses antibody breakthrough for humanitarian use

AFRL licenses antibody breakthrough for humanitarian use

AFRL project researchers Dr. Joseph Slocik (right), Dr. Rajesh Naik, and Dr. Patrick Dennis review the recently-signed licensing agreement that grants locally-based innovators S.A.Wyze exclusive rights to use A... More

RIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

RIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force

RIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s AgilePod is shown mounted on the wing of the Textron Aviation Defense’s Scorpion Light Attack/ISR jet. The AgilePod is an Air Force-tra... More

AFRL, American Semiconductor create flexible system-on-chip for ‘internet-of-things’

AFRL, American Semiconductor create flexible system-on-chip for ‘inter...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A collaboration between the Air Force Research Laboratory and American Semiconductor has produced a flexible silicon-on-polymer chip with more than 7,000 times the memory... More

Dr. David Walker served as guest speaker for the 65th

Dr. David Walker served as guest speaker for the 65th

Dr. David Walker served as guest speaker for the 65th Annual Materials and Manufacturing Directorate Awards Luncheon. Walker currently serves as Director of Technology in the Office of Naval Research. He was ho... More

Air Force collaboration could increase use of composites in aerospace manufacturing

Air Force collaboration could increase use of composites in aerospace ...

A researcher uses Laser Bond Inspection on a large structure at the Boeing Laser Bond Inspection Laboratory in Seattle, Washington.

Personnel from the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson

Personnel from the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson

Personnel from the Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio and Samson Rope, Ferndale, Wash., demonstrate proposed items for the C-17 Globemaster III fleet Jan. 30, 2018, on Dover Air Force... More

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