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Air Force Research 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 Air Force Research Laboratory has two of its ten directorates at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque: Space Vehicles and Directed Energy (laser technology). The latter is the Air Force center of expertise for lasers, high-energy microwaves, and other directed energy technologies.
Space Vehicles Directorate
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, at the site of the former Phillips Laboratory. In addition, the organization operates a division at Hanscom Air Force Base, MA.
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 nearly 1,000 military, federal, and contract employees, and has an annual budget of approximately $378 million.
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/VS) emphasizes technology transfer - the sharing or transferring of information, data, hardware, personnel, services, facilities or other scientific resources for the benefit of the private or public sector.
AFRL/VS’s mission is to develop and transition high pay-off 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.”
The Directorate uses three primary types of agreements as tools to collaborate and transfer directorate technology. The first is Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) with industry, academic, and state/local government agencies. The second is Education Partnership Agreements (EPA) with educational/academic organizations/institutions. The third is Patent License Agreements with private industry. There are many other ways to accomplish the transfer of technology and the directorate uses a variety of technology transfer mechanisms.
Directed Energy Directorate
Ms. Susan J. Thornton is the director of the Directed Energy Directorate. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate develops high-energy lasers, high-power microwaves, and other directed energy technologies for the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense. The Directorate is also involved with advanced optics and imaging technologies to improve the nation’s ability to precisely project these directed energies at the speed of light anywhere, at any time and with graduated intensity.
The Directed Energy Directorate employs more than 800 people (including in-house contractors) and operates with an annual budget of more than $300 million.
Phillips Institute / Kirtland Technology Park
The Phillips Institute is a government/industry/academia consortium that will be the nation’s premier resource for development, analysis, integration, transition, and transfer of advanced space and directed energy technologies. It will operate in close coordination with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) directorates located at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Phillips Technology Institute will be more than just a “virtual” consortium of member organizations. AFRL and the Kirtland Air Force Base leadership have established the Kirtland Technology Park to enable consortium members and other interested parties to lease land and construct facilities immediately adjacent to the existing AFRL campus. The Kirtland Technology Park is planned to be a 300 acre development located on base property along Gibson Boulevard, one mile east of the Albuquerque International Airport. The Park will be developed through use of Enhanced Leasing authority. For more information contact pti@kirtland.af.mil.
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3550 Aberdeen Avenue S.E., Kirtland AFB, NM
87117-5776
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