ABOUT

What is the AFRL Regional Network — Mid-Atlantic?

The AFRL Regional Network — Mid-Atlantic helps identify barrier-breaking innovations for the Air Force and Space Force and together advances them towards commercialization leveraging regional academic, government, corporate, startup, and venture members, programs and assets.

VISION

The Regional Network will create a more visible and accessible Air Force and Space Force presence in the region, strengthening partnerships and programs that catalyze innovation, commercialization and impact creating scientists and engineers trained via the experiential approach alongside the existing workforce to accelerate skill development and new products.

MISSION

Collapse the conventional path of research discovery to products and applications for the Air Force, Space Force and commercial applications; Through the Network community accelerate the translation of ideas to prototypes to products.

RESEARCH & ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Built on three core Network competencies:

  • Provide integrated distributed infrastructure for accelerated data development and exploitation

  • Facilitate, foster and seed innovations along the technology translation pipeline

  • Establish workforce development programs to deliver on the Network’s Vision

Expected Outcomes

  • Increased volume of explorations around innovations meaningful to both the Air Force/Space Force and commercial markets

  • Successful explorations advanced towards commercialization via startups and/or Network corporate members

  • The next generation of solutions and innovators ready to serve future warfighter needs

The AFRL Regional Network — Mid-Atlantic will also build a distributed data infrastructure where scientific research, data, computer, and software tool development can converge and provide access to curated data, AI development tools, and AI models.

Why Should You Become a Member?

Your involvement in the AFRL Regional Network — Mid-Atlantic will provide opportunities to explore cutting-edge research projects and technologies related to quantifying performance in extreme environments and complex systems and modeling. Network partners will also be involved with the commercialization and spinout of new ventures that result from research developments along with related IP strategies.