Video by Jennifer B Bryant | Air Force Research Laboratory | 07.07.2025
AFWERX and SpaceWERX support small businesses through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, helping them navigate the federal acquisition process and connect with Air Force and Space Force customers. These programs provide funding and resources across multiple phases—from feasibility and prototyping to commercialization—while......
Video by Michael Briggs, Shannon Carabajal and James Truitt | Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center | 03.13.2020
In this episode of Inside AFIMSC, - Rebuild of Tyndall Air Force Base moves ahead, - The 2020 Air Force Assistance Fund campaign kicks off, and - Get the latest official and accurate information about the Coronavirus. All this and more, in this episode of Inside AFIMSC!...
Video by Staff Sgt. Jordyn Fetter | Air Force Research Laboratory | 07.25.2019
Capt. Steve Lauver, AFWERX Director of Tech Accelerators, speaks to a group of Public Affairs Airmen and Spark Cell teams about how AFWERX is using the Small Business Innovation Research Program as one tool to create a more agile contracting process....
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.14.2017
Optical Sciences Corporation, a small business based in Huntsville, Alabama, specialize in hardware-in-the-loop simulations, and the testing of infrared sensors. Their infrared scene projector technology enhances the Air Force mission by improving their ability to test their sensors in their ground test facilities. With funding from the Air Force SBIR/STTR program, Optical Sciences......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.04.2017
Through participation in the Air Force SBIR/STTR Program, Dynamic Structures & Materials, Inc. have developed a reliable cryogenic flow device that controls the flow of various gasses or fluids that it is both valve and a motor combined. It is inherently simple, and the simplicity means that it has low cost, and it also means that it has a low failure rate. DSM manufactures both the valve......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 12.04.2017
With funding from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Program, Applied University Research developed the Near Field Velocity Measurement System, which is able to measure local air velocity around wind tunnel test articles that they put into large-scale wind tunnel facilities at Arnold Engineering Development Complex. The technology looks at light that’s scattered off of small......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 10.12.2017
"It is very unlikely, that General Nano would exist today without the SBIR program. In fact, it would not have been something that I would have left my career in business to take on this venture if not for the SBIR seed financing to start this company. If the government is placing a bet on you, that sometimes it’s just enough for other people to place a bet on you. Had we not had the SBIR......
Video by Dennis L Stewart | Air Force Research Laboratory | 07.20.2017
Exhaust that results from operating aircraft engines is troublesome for a number of reasons. Particles existing in the exhaust plume are small and are easily trapped in your lungs, which can have a health affect. Additionally, when aircraft are flying through the atmosphere it creates contrails. Contrails are mainly water vapor that attribute to cloud formations and to the radiation balance of......
