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  • A coding team with the Air Force Business Enterprise Systems Directorate discusses a mobile app they are developing for the Air Force during a recent huddle in Atlanta. Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation - or BESPIN – based at the Maxwell Air Force Base Gunter Annex, Alabama, is teaming with the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Innovation Office to develop applications that will help Airmen do their jobs better and stay connected to their military community.

    BESPIN-AFIMSC alliance improves mission support capabilities

    BESPIN and AFIMSC are partnering to develop two mobile applications: an app connecting the military community to base events and an app to improve contractor accountability. The apps were two of the top three ideas chosen during AFIMSC’s inaugural Innovation Rodeo March 1.
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    Air Force advances innovation at “Spark Collider”

    In Air Force-speak, the Spark Collider “will accelerate the matching of Air Force problems with viable solutions” by being equal parts speed dating, tech showcase and pitch sessions. The Air Force’s effort to innovate is part of a central tenet for defending the United States as outlined in the National Defense Strategy.
  • Kevin Landtroop, Capital Factory venture partner, speaks on a panel about the symbiosis between startups, government, and venture capital during the first-ever Spark Collider at the AFWERX Austin Hub Aug 14, 2019. The event connected approximately 100 Phase I Small Business Innovation Research companies and Airmen from about 50 bases to potentially solve Air Force problem areas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jordyn Fetter)

    Airmen, companies tackle mission pain points during AFWERX "Spark Collider"

    Over the span of two days, more than 150 Airmen representing 50 bases and 200 entrepreneurs representing 100 Small Business Innovation Research Phase I companies joined together to see which missions could match up to an associated business product.
  • AFRL Materials and Manufacturing Assistant Chief Engineer, Dr. Larry Brott, displays infrared powder used to form pellets in the creation of infrared technologies for battlefield communication and training. (U.S. Air Force photo/Donna Lindner)

    AFRL licenses second technology to local firm

    This marker, along with a second patent by Brott and his team involving infrared phosphor technology, has recently been licensed to Battle Sight Technologies, which expands to their existing collection of infrared technologies. This technology works similarly to the dials on a watch, absorbing ultraviolet light during the day and emitting an infrared light at night.
  • 7th EMS receives augmented reality welding system, improves real-world welding

    7th EMS receives augmented reality welding system, improves real-world welding

    The 7th Equipment Maintenance Squadron metals technology section recently received an augmented reality welding system to improve real-world welding.
  • Maj. Gen. Kimberly Crider, mobilization assistant to the Air Force Space Command commander, gives the keynote speech at the AFSPC Chief Data Office Innovation Summit at Headquarters AFSPC, July 30-31, 2019. AFSPC held the event to unveil the command’s new enterprise data strategy, its construct, why it is needed, and how it will make U.S. and Allied warfighters more agile and lethal. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dennis Hoffman)

    AFSPC rolls out new enterprise data strategy

    The command’s enterprise data strategy will provide the means to ensure greater mission success. It is a framework that integrates space enterprise data sources into a common, resilient and agile architecture optimized for space domain awareness and responsive multi-domain operations at speed and scale.
  • A Squadron Officer School students listen as they recieve initial feedback on their Think Tank elective presentation, May 31, 2019, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The students were given the challenge to figure out how Artificial Intelligence could be used to solve Air Force issues and better processes.

    Squadron Officer School revamps Think Tank model, AI-aided PCS proposal draws attention

    One of the steps taken recently in redesigning the elective was to enroll select Squadron Officer School faculty members in various courses that excel in teaching innovative techniques to solve complex issues. Some of the courses were Stanford University’s Design School, the Joint Special Operations University’s Special Operations Forces Design and Innovation Basic Course at Hurlburt Field, Florida.
  • An AFWERX Fusion exhibitor demonstrates his Multi-Domain Operations-related product for an attendee during the event on July 23 in Las Vegas. The annual event featured speakers, panels and product showcases focused on solving U.S. Air Force challenges with existing commercial products and concepts. (U.S. Air Force photo by Bridget Bennett)

    AFWERX Fusion, MDO Challenge drive collaboration between industry, military, academia

    To better foster a culture of collaboration and innovation within the Air Force, AFWERX Fusion brought more than 1,200 people from business, military and academia as well as close to 120 Multi-Domain Operations Challenge teams and companies together under one roof July 23-24.
  • The Auto Belay Insertion System allows operators to engage a one-handed brake without compromising rapid descent and emergency detachment from the rope in hostile environments. A team of Air Force Academy cadets were listed as named inventors for this technology on three patents awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. (Courtesy Photo)

    Academy cadets’ invention to support battlefield Airmen awarded patents

    A team of Air Force Academy cadets took on this exact challenge while completing their mechanical and systems engineering degrees in 2016 and now their technology has been awarded three patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

  • Air Force brings defense planning into 21st century through modern software

    For much of the defense community, the ease and functionality of modern technology is not translated to military planning systems. While cumbersome acquisitions processes, funding issues and security concerns are often valid causes, many Department of Defense processes (and any software associated with them) cannot compete with the technology many Americans use regularly.
  • U.S. Air Force Capt. Trey Williams, MD, 633rd Medical Group pediatrician shows Airman 1st Class Monique Wood, 633rd MDG medical technician and Seffron Boyle, RN, 633rd NICU, the functions on an incubator, July 10, 2019, at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.

    Simulators prepare Airmen for real-world scenarios

    “They blink, they breathe,” said Raymond Jernigan, 633rd MDG simulator operator. “Even the baby simulators have motion. They cry. I can program it to talk. They can be programmed to have physiological responses – I’ll set the vital signs.”
  • An autonomous drone follows Jose Martinez Lorenzo, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University, during the Air Force’s Unmanned Aerial Systems Pitch Day, July 24, at the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, Mass. The demonstration of autonomous drone technology was part of a day dedicated to bringing new and innovative companies into the Air Force to work on detecting, tracking, defeating and controlling drones and drone swarms. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Maki)

    Air Force targets drones during latest Pitch Day

    The day-long event began with thirteen pitches from businesses, followed by deliberations by Air Force junior officers and civilians, who chose to award Phase 1 small business contracts to every Pitch Day participant.
  • U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Josh Tyler, 81st Surgical Operations Squadron Institute for Defense Robotic Surgery Education director, and Maj. Scott Thallemer, 81st MSGS InDORSE robot coordinator, pose for a photo in the Clinical Research Lab on Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, June 27, 2019. InDORSE is a program created by Tyler and Thallemer to provide surgeons with training on the DaVinci Xi surgical robot. Keesler AFB was the first hospital to have the DaVinci Xi in the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Kimberly L. Mueller)

    100th surgical team completes robotic surgery training

    This milestone is significant for Keesler’s InDORSE program, showing how far the curriculum has come since the program first stood up in March 2017 with just one robot. Now, InDORSE has acquired a second robot, allowing them to train more military surgical teams across the Department of Defense as well as Department of Veteran’s Affairs.

  • Donovan visits B-21, X-37B facilities, L3 Harris Technologies

    Acting Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Donovan visited Northrop Grumman’s B-21 Design and Development Headquarters and the Kennedy Space Center to review the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Processing Facility, as well as the newly merged L3 Harris Technologies, Inc.
  • Final AC-130U Spooky returns from combat deployment

    Final AC-130U Spooky returns from combat deployment

    While still on alert to respond to contingencies as needed for the next few months, the Spooky is being replaced downrange by the AC-130J Ghostrider, the most lethal and innovative gunship in the world.
  • U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven Kwast, commander of Air Education and Training Command, officially addresses the men and women of the First Command for the first time as their commander during a change of command ceremony Nov. 16, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. Kwast, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, will pass command of AETC to Lt. Gen. Brad Webb July 26, 2019. (U.S. Air Force photo by Sean Worrell)

    Kwast salutes AETC team for "failing forward" in learning, innovation

    In discussing what has stuck out to him in his time as the commander, Kwast was grateful to the command’s Airmen for understanding the need to change processes to keep pace with near-peer adversaries in today’s dynamic national security environment.

  • JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst hosts first-ever base-level Pitch Day event

    The two-month process, which started in April, began when the 87th Contracting Squadron published problem statements from the 87th Air Base Wing, 305th Air Mobility Wing, 621st Contingency Response Wing and Expeditionary Operations School, requesting innovative solutions from small businesses to tackle their most pressing readiness and lethality challenges.
  • Students write code to program robots with instruction from instructor Patricia Bodley during a LEGACY (Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth) program camp June 26, 2019, at the Freeport Center in Clearfield, Utah. LEGACY is an Air Force program aimed at building interest in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through hands-on activities while showing how STEM applies to the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Todd Cromar)

    LEGACY youth program builds interest in STEM careers

    The Leadership Experience Growing Apprenticeships Committed to Youth, or LEGACY, program is an Air Force program aimed at building interest in science, technology, engineering and math through summer craftsman camps and paid summer apprenticeships while showing how STEM applies to the world around us.
  • Air Force gathers innovators for Tyndall rebuild

    Air Force gathers innovators for Tyndall AFB rebuild

    To that end, members of the Tyndall Program Management Office, along with Air Force experts, industry and community leaders participated in an AFWERX-sponsored workshop June 25-26 in Las Vegas to rebuild the installation as a “base of the future.”
  • A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the Department of Defense's Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission launches from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida June 25, 2019. The satellites include two AFRL technology and science payloads. (NASA photo/Joel Kowsky)

    AFRL puts new technologies into space aboard world’s most powerful launch vehicle

    The rocket carried 24 experimental satellites into space, including the Green Propellant Infusion Mission spacecraft, which enables the first ever on-orbit demonstration of the AFRL developed Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic Propellant.
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