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(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported holographic, adaptive, optics research may help transform software into computer-free, electronics for unmanned aerial vehicles, high energy lasers and free-space optical communications that will enable each to run faster and more efficiently than before

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) With funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, engineers at Boston University are working on a theoretical approach to improve automated mission control and decision-making for fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that controls altitude in a variety of aircraft for the Air Force.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Air Force Office of Scientific Research-sponsored researcher, Dr. Robert Wood of Harvard University is leading the way in what could become the next phase of high-performance micro air vehicles for the Air Force.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) 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.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) AOptix Technologies Inc., a leading edge developer of ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, disclosed today the completion of a two-phase flight test program for the United States Air Force Research Laboratory located in Rome, New York, with funding provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in Arlington, Va.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) The Air Force Office of Scientific Research today announced it will award approximately 14.6 million in grants to 38 scientists and engineers who submitted winning research proposals through the Air Force's Young Investigator Research Program.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Air Force Office of Scientific Research and National Science Foundation-funded professor, Dr. Xiang Zhang has demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley the world's smallest semiconductor laser, which may have applications to the Air Force in communications, computing and bio-hazard detection.

(Air Force Office of Scientific Research) Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force.