AF innovative challenge in 2020

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Center for Rapid Innovation is sponsoring the Service Academy and University Design Challenge to tackle some of the Department of Defense’s top urgent needs while focusing on highly visible and challenging war-fighter problems. The competitive environment stimulates crosstalk innovation with an invaluable opportunity for professional development to seek creative, cost-effective solutions. This year’s senior capstone design project is to perform in-depth research, consultation and exploration to engineer, design and build a prototype system to locate personnel and assist in survival during water rescue and recovery missions in hostile environments. “We partner with the best schools in the nation to provide relevant ideas and concepts that are fabricated into working prototypes and then demonstrated as a final exam,” said Mike Lazalier, program manager for the SAC/UDC. AFRL, assisted by Rally Point Management, is hosting the 2020 challenge, forecast to be held in April 2020 near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. AFRL-sponsored challenges provide a low-cost conduit to develop innovative solutions while tapping into energetic and bright ideas of college seniors, their mentors and university staff. (Source: AF Research Laboratory 11/22/19) https://www.dvidshub.net/news/352950/afrl-sponsors-service-academy-and-university-design-challenge