U.S. Air Force Academy -- (U.S. Air Force photo/Trevor Cokley) MAY 16, 2023 - A team of professors and cadets with the U.S. Air Force Academy’s Warfighter Effectiveness Research Center, a directorate of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership, are striving to determine the practicality of incorporating a robot into operational Air Force missions. The … [Read more...]
Students Gain Learning Connectivity Through Wi-Fi Project
MAY 15, 2023 - To advance learning opportunities for Airmen and enable training and education from any device, Air Education and Training Command officials have expanded a project installing commercial wireless internet across the command and into all training dormitories. The previous $6.3 million AETC Wide Area Knowledge Education Nexus, or AWAKEN, project provided Wi-Fi … [Read more...]
F-22 Raptors Deter Aggression Over Baltic Skies
U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors from 94th Fighter Squadron prepare to launch at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Aug. 14, 2017. The aircraft are assigned to Joint Base Langley-Eustis Air Force Base, Va.’s, 1st Fighter Wing and will conduct air combat training sorties with various aircraft during Red Flag 17-4, running from Aug. 14 to 25. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Staff Sgt. Carlin … [Read more...]
Air Force Teams With Academia to Win Grand Challenge
MAY 12, 2023 — The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, has selected a joint research team from Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the Phase I winner of AFRL’s Active Artificial Intelligence, or AI, Planners for Chemistry/Materials Optimization and Discovery Grand Challenge. The winning team proposed a solution to accelerate … [Read more...]
Air Force Successfully Field-Tests AI Robot
MAY 12, 2023 — Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, have combined efforts with The Ohio State University, or OSU, and industry partners CapSen Robotics and Yaskawa Motoman to successfully demonstrate an autonomous robotic incremental metal forming prototype at the Warner-Robins Air Logistics Complex, or WR-ALC, a tenant of Robins Air Force Base in … [Read more...]