“This lab will promote the use of digital engineering, saving time and money, and will provide the opportunity for partnerships within AFRL, with industry and our allies. “With digital engineering we can explore more concepts faster, without waiting for the “real thing” hardware,” Felt said. “The WARS Lab will advance three strategies AFRL is pursuing to deter conflict, which we call ISP- innovation, speed and partnerships.”įelt said that innovation is key to beating our adversaries and that speed is essential. Eric Felt, Director of the Space Vehicles Directorate. “We in the Department of Defense are concerned about competition with our adversaries across all domains of warfighting,” said Col. The new building named the Wargaming and Advanced Research Simulation (WARS) Laboratory will house the Directed Energy Wargaming and Simulation Branch and the Space Vehicles Simulation and Analysis Branch. The Air Force Research Laboratory broke ground on a $6 million, 10,685 square foot laboratory, September 8 that will advance wargaming and simulation, and analysis for AFRL’s Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates located on Kirtland Air Force Base.

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