JustifiedAccord

About Justified Accord

Justified Accord is U.S. Africa Command’s largest exercise in East Africa. Led by U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF), this multi-national exercise brings together more than 20 countries from 3 continents to increase partner readiness for peacekeeping missions, crisis response and humanitarian assistance.

Southern European Task Force - Africa leads this joint, all-domain exercise in East Africa to enable future operations, maintain strategic access, and build partner capacity to disrupt malign influence, aggression, and activity.

Justified Accord 25 features the first-ever night iteration of air-to-ground integration (AGI) operations where partner countries control Kenyan air assets to provide air support of multinational land forces.

This years iteration also marks the 10-year anniversary of the State Partnership Program between the Massachusetts National Guard and the Kenya Defence Forces. This milestone highlights a decade of sustained military cooperation, training exchanges and capacity-building efforts between the two forces.

Read the Press Release here.

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Near Field Velocity Measurement System

Air Force Research Laboratory

Jan. 4, 2018 | 4:16

With funding from the Air Force Small Business Innovation Research Program, Applied University Research developed the Near Field Velocity Measurement System, which is able to measure local air velocity around wind tunnel test articles that they put into large-scale wind tunnel facilities at Arnold Engineering Development Complex. The technology looks at light that’s scattered off of small droplets of mineral oil that are injected into the moving air. That light goes into a detection system that analyzes that light and determines what the air velocity is, by assuming that the air velocity is the same as that particle velocity.

The technology provides extra information to customers that are using AEDC wind tunnels. Those customers can better understand what the flow field is around their test articles that models weapon systems that they will be providing to the Air Force in the future. By knowing that detailed information early on in the acquisition cycle, the Air Force can avoid problems that might develop later in the acquisition cycle, which are very expensive problems to fix.