Laboratory Information:
AFRL - Space Vehicles Directorate - Kirtland AFB
3550 Aberdeen Avenue SE
Bldg 427
Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5776
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: Mid-Continent
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. Formed in October 1997 as
the product of an organizational consolidation that
integrated previously separate Air Force laboratories
(Armstrong, Phillips, Rome and Wright- Patterson) with the
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AFRL consists of 10
directorates, situated across the country. The Space Vehicles
Directorate serves as the Air Force's Center of
Excellence for space research and development. The Space
Vehicles Directorate is located at Kirtland Air Force Base,
N.Mex., at the site of the former Phillips Laboratory. In
addition, the organization operates a division at Hanscom Air
Force Base, Mass. 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 the Directed Energy Directorate, also
located at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Space Vehicles
Directorate is comprised of a talented and dedicated team of
941 military, federal, and contract employees, and has an
annual budget of approximately $378 million.
Mission of the Laboratory:
Develop and
transition high pay-off space technologies supporting the
warfighter while leveraging commercial, civil and other
government capabilities to ensure America's
advantage.
Facilities:
Technology Transfer Mechanisms:
- Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)
- Education Partnership Agreements
- Patent License Agreements
Technology Areas of Expertise:
- Active sensors
- Advanced space-based dectectors
- Battlespace environment
- Early launch detection
- Ionospheric impacts on RF systems
- IR clutter assessment
- Solar coronal observations
- Solar mass ejection imager
- Space focal plane arrays
- Space situational awareness
- Spacecraft technology
