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Feb 16 | News
The United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research has awarded $8.5 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities that will work together to determine the best approach for generating quantum memories based on interaction between light and matter. The team will consider three different approaches for creating entangled quantum memories that could facilitate the long-distance transmission of secure information.
Jan 30 | News
The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube growth: That the chirality of a nanotube controls the speed of its growth, and that armchair nanotubes should grow the fastest.
3/4/2011 | News
A second version of the secretive X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle is scheduled to rocket to space this afternoon from Cape Canaveral. Current forecasts predict a 70 percent chance that bad weather may delay the flight. The unmanned craft resembles the space shuttle, but is much smaller. The Air Force won't say what the shuttle is to be used for, but they do confirm that it operates completely autonomously.
3/3/2011 | News
In an effort to make it easier to build
inexpensive, next-generation silicon-based electro-optical chips, which
allow
computers to move information with light and electricity, a research
team is developing design tools and using commercial nanofabrication tools.
9/13/2010 | News
Reflecting
the fortunes of a struggling economy, government R&D funding for
2011 is expected to slip about three-tenths of one percent from 2010
levels. The big news from the proposed package, however, is a marked
fall in defense R&D: 6.6%. As a result, non-defense R&D could rise by several percentage points.
9/9/2010 | News
A portable, laser backpack for 3D mapping has
been developed at the University of California, Berkeley,
where it is being hailed as a breakthrough technology capable of
producing
fast, automatic, and realistic 3D mapping of difficult interior
environments.
5/28/2010 | News
The video of Wednesday’s launch of the X-51A Waverider
communicates the immense velocity attained by the scramjet design. After
an initial
rocket burn to achieve most of the terminal speed, the SY61 scramjet
ignited,
burning a mix of ethylene and JP-7 jet fuel to achieve Mach 5 at 70,000
feet.
5/4/2010 | News
MIT researchers are exploring a new technology
funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National
Science
Foundation, which they call a thermopower wave, that may convert
chemical
energy to fuel cells for micro-machines, sensors and emergency
communication
beacons.
4/28/2010 | News
Normally, the projects run by DARPA stay fully under wraps
except for a few tidbits released to the public, but it’s hard to keep a
rocket-powered Mach 20 glider from prying eyes, especially when it drops
out of
telemetry at top speed. The flight, which may or may not be a bust,
occurred
just when the Air Force is keeping the lid on the fate of its own
experiment
that launched April 22: the X-37B unmanned shuttle.
12/8/2009 | News
Bridging the gap between electronics, optics, and photonics on the nanometer scale, the plasmonic laser was first suggested seven years ago, but didn’t work until an Air Force Office of Scientific Research scientist created a nanowire-enabled insulating gap the size of a protein molecule. The design is intended to be integrated into existing semiconductor platforms.
