Laboratory Information:
AFRL - Space Vehicles Directorate - Hanscom AFB
Hanscom AFB AFRL/RV
29 Randolph Road
Hanscom AFB, MA 01731-3010
Website: http://www.kirtland.af.mil/afrl_vs/
Technology Transfer Website: http://prs.afrl.kirtland.af.mil/TechOutreach/TT/
Agency/Department: Dept. of Defense - Air Force
Region: Northeast
FLC Laboratory Representative:
Ms. Casey DeRaad
Phone: 505-846-9352
Fax: 505-853-4883
Email: casey.deraad@kirtland.af.mil
Background/History of the Laboratory:
The mission of
the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is to discover,
develop, integrate, and deliver affordable technologies for
improved warfighting capabilities. AFRL was formed in October
1997, as the product of an organizational consolidation that
integrated the previously separate Air Force laboratories
(Armstrong, Phillips, Rome and Wright-Patterson) with the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research. AFRL is comprised of 10
directorates, located across the country. The Space Vehicles
Directorate Headquarters is located at Kirtland Air Force
Base in Albuquerque, N.Mex. at the site of the former
Phillips Laboratory. The second VS site is located at Hanscom
Air Force Base in Massachusetts, formerly the Geophysics
Directorate. The Space Vehicles Directorate utilizes the
assets and personnel of the former Phillips' Space
Technology, Space Experiments, and Geophysics Directorates,
as well as part of Phillips' Lasers and Imaging
Directorate, now called Directed Energy Directorate. Space
Vehicles Directorate combines a talented mix of more than
1000 military and federal civilian workers and has an annual
budget of approximately $200 million.
Mission of the Laboratory:
AFRL/VS's
mission is to develop and transition high payoff space
technologies supporting the warfighter while leveraging
commercial, civil and other governmental capabilities to
ensure America's advantage. Primary mission thrusts
include space-based surveillance (space to space and space to
ground) and space capability protection (protecting space
assets from man-made and natural effects). Many of AFRL's
space vehicles technology developments are by their very
nature applicable to both the military and the commercial
world - they are dual use.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Alliances
- Commercial Operations & Support Savings Initiative (COSSI)
- Contracts
- Cooperative Research Agreements (CRAs)
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Cooperative Test Agreements (CTAs)
- Dual Use Science & Technology (DUST) Program
- Education Partnership Act (EPA)
- Educational Partnership Agreements (EPAs)
- Entrepreneur Research (ER)
- Grants
- Independent Research and Development (IR&D)
- Mentor-Protege Program (MPP)
- Other Transactions
- Partnership Intermediaries
- Patent License Agreements
- Patent Licensing
- Patents
- Personnel Exchanges Program
- Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR)
- Small Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR)
- Use of Facilities and Loaned Equipment
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Imaging
- Industrial chemistry & process engineering
- Inorganic
- Integrated microsystems
- Ionospheric impacts on RF systems
- IR clutter assessment
- Lasers
- Active sensors
- Advanced space-based dectectors
- Airborne and orbital missions
- Antenna technology
- Astrophysics
- Balloon-borne experiments
- Battlespace environment
- Chemical
- Component development
- Cosmic background radiation
- Dark matter
- Desalination technology
- Early launch detection
- Electronics
- Energy
- Environmental
- Geoastrophysics
- Ground-based experiments
- Manufacturing
- Membranes
- Organic chemistry
- Photonics
- Satellite awareness protection
- Sensors
- Simulation and technology assessment
- Solar coronal observations
- Solar mass ejection imager
- Space electronics
- Space focal plane arrays
- Space situational awareness
- Space-based infrared technology
- Spacecraft technology
- Spectral polarimetry
