The agreement opens the door to research and development between the two services in mutual areas of interest both would gain, officials said.
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“The idea is we can bring our subject matter experts and their subject matter experts and discuss where it makes sense to work together or leverage technologies already there,” said Augustine Vu, AFRL’s chief of domestic partnering.
Determining additional areas of research interest are in “initial discussions,” he said.
“Ideally, out of this relationship we may be able to leverage technologies that we’re already developing in new ways,” he added.
AFRL directorates have similar agreements with the Navy and the Army, Vu said.
Joseph DiRenzo, director of research partnerships at the Coast Guard’s research center in New London, said AFRL was on the “cutting edge” of research and development.
“They have some projects they are working on that are a near perfect fit for our portfolio,” he said in a telephone interview.
Protecting pilots from laser strikes, additive manufacturing, aerial sensors, cube satellites, and modeling and simulation are among the technologies the Coast Guard wants to explore with the Air Force, he said.
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The maritime service plans to send researchers on regular visits to AFRL, he said.
AFRL is headquartered at Wright-Patterson and home to four of nine of directorates: Aerospace Systems, Materials & Manufacturing, Sensors and the 711th Human Performance Wing.
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