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2 unusual facts about Air Force Research Laboratory


AeroVironment

AeroVironment holds a five-year, $4.7 million IDIQ (indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity) contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for the development of advanced propulsion technologies for UAVs.

Angela K. Wilson

She helped create the CASCaM program with funding and support from the University of North Texas, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, the United States Department of Education, and the United States Department of Energy.


Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton

The Center for Tissue Regeneration and Engineering at Dayton (TREND) is a research center which focuses on tissue regeneration and is partenered with the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Ethicon Endo-Surgery.

Magnetized target fusion

To complete the system, the FRX-L injector was to be placed above the focus of the existing Shiva Star "can crusher" at the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Lab at the Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM.

Proton200k

In 2006, the Proton200k space computer was selected for Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) satellite program.

Space Systems Laboratory

The Laboratory also has ties with the M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, NASA Langley, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Air Force Research Laboratory, as well as the Departments of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at M.I.T., and aerospace companies such as Draper, TRW, Lockheed-Martin, MDA and Hughes.


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