AFMC Command News

  • AFRL scientist named national society fellow

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – A research psychologist who specializes in auditory perception in the Air Force Research Laboratory has been selected as a fellow by the Acoustical Society of America.Dr. Brian Simpson currently serves as technical advisor for the 711 HPW’s Sensory Systems

  • Maui sees first U.S. Space Force officers sworn in

    Six officers assigned to the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site joined more than 2,400 Airmen across the nation, transferring from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force, making them the first Space Force Guardians on the

  • AFRL officers transfer to U.S. Space Force in historic ceremony

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Joining more than 2,400 Airmen across the nation, 13 Air Force Research Laboratory officers took the oath of office Feb. 1, transferring from the U.S. Air Force to the U.S. Space Force, in an induction ceremony held at Kirtland Air Force Base. Col. Eric Felt, director

  • AFRL STEM Academy continues hands-on learning during pandemic

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM outreach program STEM Academy has started off the new year by distributing learning packets for homeschooled students around the Albuquerque community. Since the beginning of the pandemic, STEM Academy has taken a novel

  • AFRL engineer earns lifetime achievement award

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Robert “Bob” Mercier, a chief engineer with the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, earned the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force Airbreathing Propulsion Subcommittee Lifetime Achievement Award, Dec. 8, 2020 during a virtual awards

  • AFRL holds new directed energy wargaming event

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate recently held its newest wargaming, modeling and simulation event at Kirtland Air Force Base.The Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEUCE, under the leadership of the directorate’s wargaming

  • NASA astronaut returns to Kirtland in new role

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Renowned NASA astronaut and Space Force Director of Test and Evaluation, Col. Nick Hague recently visited Kirtland Air Force Base space agencies including the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and Air Force Operational Test

  • AFRL awards $3.5 million to Biotechnology Grand Challenge winners

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Biotechnology Grand Challenges have been awarded to four teams in effort to spearhead innovation among small businesses in the field of biotechnology for the Department of Defense. The challenges, each of which comes

  • AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range discovers asteroid satellite

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. (AFRL) - “I was wrong,” said Air Force Research Laboratory researcher, Dr. Jack Drummond, when looking back to his early research on asteroids and their orbiting moons. Drummond is an astronomer at AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate Starfire Optical Range (SOR) located

  • AFRL, AFLCMC laboratory collaboration addresses pilot oxygen concerns

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The Air Force Research Laboratory and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center have partnered to create a facility for investigation of in-flight oxygen issues, achieving operational capability with the first testing activity, the evaluation and

  • New AFRL, NSF INTERN program opens aperture for recruiting top talent

    ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- The Air and Space Forces will start 2021 with a fresh new partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) designed to advance the scientific and innovation skills of the United States and draw a whole new generation of