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