Talk:Air Force Research Laboratory

neutrality dispute

I am certain I have read this entire passage on their own website. See the previous version before I began editing, where there was actually used the phrase "our air and space forces." Among other problem statements: "To accomplish this mission, AFOSR has formed a strong, productive alliance with other government agencies, U.S. industry and the academic community." --Rwehr 14:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Is the neutrality of this article still in dispute? If so, what are the passages that need work? --Zippy 05:58, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

It reads like a propaganda pamphlet or an ad for the Air Force. It certainly is not neutral. 134.105.224.186 13:33, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

contradiction

This sentence is, at best, misleading: "It is a full-spectrum laboratory, responsible for planning and executing the Air Force’s entire science and technology budget, basic research, applied research, and advanced technology development." In contrast to: "Nearly 80 percent of the research is conducted in academia and industry and the remaining 20 percent is conducted within AFRL." --Rwehr 15:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

These are not contradictory. The AFRL has two roles: 1) performing its own research, and 2) finding others to do research, funded by the AFRL. See for instance this page where they say "Our partners include universities and industry, with whom we invest almost 80% of our budget." In other words, they may indeed plan and execute the Air Force's entire budget, spending 20% on internal research projects, and 80% on external research projects. --Zippy 05:53, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Is anybody reading this?

I can offer more information about the AFRL propulsion directorate. Is anybody interested?

cut/paste job

This article is mostly a cut/paste job from http://www.afrl.af.mil/factsht/afrlfactsheet.asp. Would anyone object to me stub-ifying this article so that it can be rewritten? --Takeel 13:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I have reduced the article to a stub. --Takeel 18:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Dispute Removing Mission Statement

The comment for removing the Mission Statement was that it was in market-speak. However, the tone of the mission statement does not change the fact that it is the Mission Statement of AFRL, so that is a fact. Why remove a fact?

I would like to expand this with information available to the public (such as the names, locations, and purposes of all of the Tech-Directorates), and will do so as soon as I can. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LinuxSneaker (talk • contribs) .

Hi, LinuxSneaker. I removed that paragraph. If we replace it, we should probably specifically note that it is a mission statement written by Air Force Research Laboratory. As it was written, it just said "The mission of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) is..." without mentioning that it's a mission statement that AFRL wrote. By the way, thanks for adding that map to the article; it's a good contribution. --Takeel 15:45, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Agree. I'll add it, put the disclaimer around it, and reference it to the AFRL website page. After that I'll start building the structure to describe the TDs. I won't do a cut and paste, but just put the structure with a brief description. LinuxSneaker 12:16, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Article move

I've moved this article for consistency with the other US armed service research laboratories. And rumor has it that there are other Air Forces in the world which might have a research laboratory at some point. Nigelbeameniii (talk) 02:14, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

Existence of the Beginning by Shekhar Patrick Sinha.

Dear Sir / Madam,

                I have a pleasure to mail to you.

I believe that there has to be an existence of the beginning for which reason or

reasons everything begins. Now, how to catch or find the

" Existence of the Beginning ", I have bit thought of it.

My thought " Let us take a dead living thing either human or animal or

plant from earth to mars and moon then will the dead living thing will get

decomposed or not, because for any dead living thing to get decomposed

air and water is necessary. If the dead living thing do not get decomposed then

we can be sure of existence of miracle and if the dead living thing get

decomposed then we can be sure of existence of life which is yet another

feet of miracle, but, only we have to find out the form"

Thanks,

Shekhar Patrick Sinha.

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Which is my Primary Key by Shekhar Patrick Sinha.

Dear Sir / Madam,

                          I have a pleasure to mail to you.

Please go through my concept to give you better ideas and I shall gain

knowledge from you kind people :-

                               Tablename : -------------------------> T1

                                Rollno_Class-X --------->PK       

                                Tablename : -------------------------> T2

                                Rollno_Class-XII --------->PK     

                               Tablename : -------------------------> T3

                                Rollno_Class-Degree --------->PK

In table------> T1 , T2 and T3 I have only the rollno's of the candidate. In these table PK's has been

defined by not using the syntax of primary key.I have defined it in my way but it follows the rule of

unique and not null both.

                               Tablename : -------------------------> Result_Details1

                                Rollno_Class-X --------->FK        

                               Tablename : -------------------------> Result_Details2

                               Rollno_Class-XII --------->FK     

                               Tablename : -------------------------> Result_Details3

                               Rollno_Class-Degree --------->FK

Now, my table-----> Result_Details1, Result_Details2, Result_Details3 which is the foreign key of

above respective PK cols fields have other details also.

                                 Tablename : -------------------------> Records

Rollno_Class-X --------->PK Rollno_Class-XII --------->PK Rollno_Class-Degree --------->PK

PK has been defined as in table-----> T1, T2 and T3.Now, my Table---> Records contains only

Rollno_Class-X ,Rollno_Class-XII and Rollno_Class-Degree. Which is my PK ? Pls

Shekhar Patrick Sinha.

Guwahati, Assam, India.

shekhar_shk@rediffmail.com,

mobile no: +91-94354 - 39321 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.95.38.23 (talk) 09:47, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Move "History"?

Does anyone else think the History section should come after the modern directorate descriptions? Thus: AFRL (overview), Organizations, History... I'd hate to make a big edit without concensus... in fact, I'll leave it to someone else. 24.164.73.18 (talk) 02:20, 19 June 2010 (UTC)GESICC—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.73.18 (talk) 02:18, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

Ig Nobel Prize

In 2007 The United States Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio won an Ig Nobel Prize for Peace. Why is this not included in that page. Could it be added under a 'awards' section possibly? Outback the koala (talk) 18:44, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

Air Force Office of Aerospace Research

Was the AFRL ever known as the AFOAR, or Air Force Office of Aerospace Research - is it an appropriate target for a redirect? Josh Parris 09:01, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

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Technology transfer at the Air Force Research Laboratory

A section should be added to this page explaining that AFRL inventions are often made available to the public for commercialization via license agreement. This is called technology transfer, and the Air Force Technology Transfer Program is co-located with AFRL at Wright-Patterson AFB. See: Air Force Technology Transfer Program

There are many examples of AFRL inventions being commercialized through technology transfer, one of the best is the Android Tactical Assault Kit. See: Android Tactical Assault Kit

--DesTROYer22Alpha (talk) 18:20, 29 January 2020 (UTC)