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  • Laboratory employee named outstanding lab representative

    Mary Archuleta, a technology transfer specialist with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, recently received the Federal Laboratory Consortium's Mid-Continent Outstanding Laboratory Representative of the Year. She was selected for her contributions to technology transfer

  • SBIR Program seeks to increase portfolio

    Since 1984, the federal government has supported small businesses that were often at a disadvantage when competing against larger corporations for federal contract opportunities. Under the Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, program, companies with fewer than 500 employees are eligible to

  • AFRL, UNM begin new hi-tech partnership

    A collaborative effort here is paving the way for a new center of excellence within New Mexico for the application of Field Programmable Gate Arrays in space and defense systems. Called the FPGA Mission Assurance Center, the project was recently appointed $1.6 million by Congress. FPGAs are

  • Joe Sciabica assigned as AFRL’s executive director

    Joe Sciabica has been assigned as the executive director of the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. He is replacing Lester McFawn who is retiring. Mr. Sciabica will be replaced as AFRL director of Sensors Directorate by Dr. David M. Jerome, previously the Air Force Materiel

  • Scientist retires but leaves big research impact

    He had a short career with the Air Force Research Laboratory, but made a significant impact in relay mirror research, software applications and as an inventor and co-inventor of five U.S. patents. Dr. Concetto R. Giuliano is retiring this month after 12 years of service with the Air Force. Dr.

  • Directed Energy employees recognized

    Two awards, one for Outstanding Civilian Career Service to Dave Tuttle and another for Exemplary Civilian Service to Dr. Kirk Hackett, were among the recognitions given to 28 employees of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at a ceremony here Friday. Mr. Tuttle, who

  • AFRL pioneer receives lifetime achievement award

    The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has selected Arthur A. Giannetti Jr., for the Otto C. Winzen Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Giannetti recently retired from a 46-year career with the Air Force and as program manager with the Air Force Research Laboratory's High Altitude

  • Space Vehicles Directorate members nominated for awards

    Two scientists here have been nominated by the U.S. Air Force for the 58th annual Arthur S. Flemming Awards for contributions to space research. Capt. Stanley Straight and Dr. Greg Spanjers, Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate, distinguished themselves by exceptional

  • Historic launch puts six satellites into orbit at once

    The first Atlas V rocket used by the Air Force successfully launched six experimental satellites from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., for the Space Development and Test Wing STP-1 mission March 8. A number of other Air Force Space Command organizations, including the Launch and Range Systems