Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: United States. Department of the Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428990712
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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This history documents a watershed event within the United States Air Force -- the creation of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). As the "high technology" service, the Air Force has always searched for ways to continuously improve its science and technology enterprise. In that context, the making of AFRL was not a bureaucratic accident. Rather, it was the product of a complex mixture of historical forces and pressures at work that convinced people at all levels that the time was ripe to bring about fundamental reform in how the Air Force conducts its business of science and technology. In terms of significance, a wealth of past studies has focused on almost every aspect of the "operational" side of the Air Force. But there has been a scarcity of available scholarly studies that address the far-reaching implications of science and technology. This book is a major contribution that helps fill that gap. Organization and infrastructure are critically important components of the total science and technology picture. Thus, the manner in which its laboratory system is organized is a critical factor in the Air Force's ability to assure that it is investing in and delivering the most relevant technologies possible. This book documents how the Air Force moved from 13 separate labs to one consolidated lab. The narrative is divided into two parts. Part one addresses the reasons why the Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise into one lab. How the new lab was implemented is the focus of part two. This study is especially revealing because the reader is given access to the inner workings and struggles of a major Air Force organizational restructuring through interviews with key individuals who participated directly in the decision-making process to establish a single lab. A chronology of the lab's creation is included. (19 tables, 22 figures, 19 photographs).

Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: United States. Air Force. Office of Aerospace Research
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Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND WASHINGTON D C.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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The purpose of the Air Force Systems Command Research Planning Guide (Research Objectives) is to identify research needed by the Air Force. The document provides a method of informing military and civilian research and development communities of mid-term requirements to fill technological gaps associated with real and conceptual systems and of long-term requirements directed toward scientific opportunities which offer the greatest potential for impacting on future military operations. These requirements are stated as research objectives grouped into seven technical areas: (1) Human Resources/Life Sciences, (2) Materials, (3) Geophysics, (4) Aerospace Vehicles, (5) Propulsion and Power, (6) Weaponry, and (7) Electronics. Each technical area is divided into subareas which are categories of research objectives within the technical area. Each subarea presentation contains a short description of its scope, the mid-term requirements, the long-term requirements and listing of points of contact. If possible, mid-term requirements are correlated with research needs stated in Technology Planning Objectives defined by each Laboratory and Technology Needs submitted to the Laboratories by AFSC organizations. Long-term requirements are based on Air Force scientists knowledge and evaluation of the scientific areas of greatest activity and potential.

Author: Robert Duffner
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781478392323
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Robert W. Duffner's Science and Technology: The Making of the Air Force Research Laboratory addresses the far-reaching implications of science and technology by recounting the events that led to the creation of a single Air Force laboratory. This engaging story of how the Air Force moved from 13 separate labs to one consolidated lab reflects that service's determination to reinvigorate its science and technology infrastructure and thereby strengthen the nation's defense for the twenty-first century. Part one considers why the Air Force decided to consolidate its far-flung science and technology enterprise into one lab, while part two relates how the service implemented the new lab. Dr. Duffner offers a unique perspective on a watershed event in the life of the United States Air Force.

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Languages : en
Pages : 70

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The Office of Aerospace Research (OAR), as the prime research agency of the United States Air Force, conducts research within its own laboratories and, through its grants and contracts program, sponsors scientific research among the leading scientists of the free world. This latter research is encouraged in areas of Air Force interest. This publication is intended to stimulate researchers in free-world colleges, universities, and nonprofit and industrial organizations to participate in the Air Force research program. By delineating the various facets of the four major divisions (Physical Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, and Life Sciences) of the Defense Research Sciences, and by describing in detail the specific fields where additional research is required, OAR hopes to encourage outstanding members of the free-world scientific community to play a part in fulfilling Air Force research needs. (Author).