The Air Force hopes to invest up to $65 million in fiscal year 2013 Rapid Innovation Fund money to finance the development of advanced materials, new ballistic missile battery technologies, cost-reduction techniques for the F-35 and a variety of other items, according to the service's FY-13 RIF broad agency announcement released Aug. 8. That document represents an official solicitation to industry, university-affiliated research centers and other organizations to submit white papers, due Oct. 8, expressing an interest in a grant...
