State-of-the-art facility enables new AF partnership

Col. Timothy Lawrence, Information Directorate director, Air Force Research Laboratory, from left, Steven Wert, Air Force Program Executive Officer Digital, Dr. Richard Carlin, Office of Naval Research naval accelerator, watch as U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan and Dr. David Luzzi, vice president for the Northeastern University Innovation Campus in Burlington, Mass. and the vice provost for Research Innovation and Development, cut the ribbon to officially open the Northeastern University’s Expeditionary Cyber and Unmanned Aerial System Research and Development Facility at the Innovation Campus, April 8. PEO Digital’s Force Protection Division at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., and Kostas Research Institute have a new collaboration partnership to enable counter-small UAS rapid prototyping and procurement at the new facility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Jerry Saslav)