Laboratory Information:
AFRL - Aerospace Systems Directorate
AFRL/RZ
1950 5th Street
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7251
Website: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/afrl/rz/
Technology Transfer Website: http://www.wpafb.af.mil/library/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=6026
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Air Force
Region: Midwest
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Ms. Kristen Schario
Phone: 937-938-4831
Fax: 937-255-1759
Email: kristen.schario@wpafb.af.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
AFRL Aerospace
Systems Directorate develops air and space vehicle
propulsion and power technologies. Focus areas include
turbine and rocket engines, advanced propulsion systems, and
fuels and propellants for all propulsion systems. The
Wright-Patterson AFB location is focused on the development
of air-breathing engines and most forms of power technology.
Programs address both future systems and the need to keep
current systems competitive, safe, affordable, and effective.
The AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate provides one-stop
shopping for all forms of propulsion science and technology
of interest to the Air (and space) Force turbine and rocket
engines, advanced propulsion systems, and the propellants
they run on. The directorate is also responsible for most
forms of power technology (other than that required for
spacecraft), making it one of the nation's leaders in the
field of energetics. Program emphasis is on meeting future
Air Force needs while keeping current systems competitive and
affordable. AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate personnel
and research and development, as well as its test and
evaluation facilities, offer numerous unique features and
opportunities. The Aerospace Systems Directorate
develops propulsion and related technologies for the Air
Force including: turbine and rocket engines, advanced
propulsion systems, fuels, propellants, and lubricants, and
aircraft power. The Directorate is headquartered at the
Wright Research Site, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio,
and supplemented by additional personnel and research
facilities located at Edwards Research Site, Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif.
Mission of the Laboratory:
To create and
transition propulsion and power technology for the military
dominance of air and space.
Facilities:
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Battery
Laboratories
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Bearings
Research Facilities
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Compressor Aero
Research Lab (CARL)
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Compressor
Research Facility (CRF)
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Component
Research Air Facility (CRAF)
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Component
Calibration Facility
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Diagnostic
Development and Combustion Research
Facilities
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Fuels
Development Research Facilities
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Heat Transfer
R&D Facilities
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Helicopter
Rotor Facility
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High Power
Laboratory
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Intelligent
Controls Facility (ICF)
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Plasma Physics
Research Laboratories
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Power
Devices
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Components
& Power Systems Facilities
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Propeller Test
Facilities
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Ramjet
Combustion Research Facility
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Scramjet
Research Facility
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Sea Level
Engine Facility
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Superconductivity Laboratory
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Supersonic
Research Facility
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Turbine Aero
Thermal Basic Research Facility (TATBRF)
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Turbine Engine
Fatigue Facilities (TEFF)
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Turbine Engine
Lubricants Research Facilities
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Turbine
Research Facility (TRF)
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Facility Sharing
- Patents and Licensing
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Technical Assistance
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- High power research
- High speed engine concepts
- Hypersonics
- Integrated high payoff rocket propulsion technology
- Integrated high performance turbine engine technology
- Integrated power unit
- Internal starter/generator
- Laser diode and electronics cooling
- Aerospace power
- Aerothermodynamic and aeromechanic performance
- Airbreathing engines
- Alternate storable propellants
- Capacitors
- Combustion
- Cryogenic power systems
- Directed energy power and thermal systems analysis
- Electrical modeling and simulation
- Electrical power systems
- Electrical technology and plasma physics
- Electrochemistry and thermal sciences
- Engine integration and assessment
- Fans and compressors
- Fuels
- Lithium-ion and environmental battery development
- Long range strike power & thermal systems analysis
- Mechanical systems
- Micro-capillary pumped loop
- PEM and solid-oxide fuel cell development
- Plans and analysis
- Plasma physics
- Polynitrogen chemistry
- Power and thermal management initiative development
- Power electronic systems
- Power generation
- Power semiconductor devices
- Propulsion
- Pulse detonation propulsion
- Rocket-based combined cycle propulsion
- Solid state chemistry research
- Space & missile propulsion
- Structures and controls
- Superconducting coated conductors
- Superconductivity research
- Systems research
- Turbine analysis, design, development, and testing
- Turbine engines
