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  • 58th SOW shares spirit of the season at children’s holiday party

    Santa Claus rides in on a UH-1N Huey Helicopter assigned to the 512th Rescue Squadron as family members from the 58th Special Operations Wing wave during the 2019 58th SOW Children’s Holiday Party at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Dec. 7, 2019. The holiday party included games, food and photos

  • Sharp Troop Award: SSgt Robyn Romero

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Robyn Romero (center), 415th Aircraft Maintenance Unit C-130 crew chief, poses for a photo with members of the Kirtland Chief’s Group at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Dec. 3, 2019. Romero was awarded the Kirtland Chief’s Group Sharp Troop award. The Sharp Troop award

  • AFRL Physicist Wins Top Science Award

    KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - Air Force Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Robert Johnson has won the most prestigious science and technology award in the U.S. Air Force – the Harold Brown Award. The award is given annually to a scientist or engineer who uses scientific research to solve a problem

  • AFRL technology set for launch to International Space Station

    A satellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory to measure low frequency waves in the magnetosphere will launch Dec. 5 to the International Space Station.The AFRL satellite being launched from Cape Canaveral is called the Very Low Frequency Propagation Mapper or VPM. Its mission is to

  • Team Kirtland sparks interest in STEAM at Discovery Festival

    Members of Team Kirtland engaged the local community alongside fellow Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics, or STEAM-focused local companies, schools and nonprofit agencies during the Discovery Festival at the Albuquerque Convention Center, Nov. 22, 2019.

  • A Man for Any Season

    This story honors the memory of Terry S. Duncan.On Oct. 18, the Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M. held a ceremony to rename the Telescope and Atmosphere Compensation Laboratory (TACLab) at AFRL’s Starfire Optical Range (SOR) to the Terry S. Duncan Space Technology and Research

  • Kirtland leaders want everyone to know “You Matter”

    Team Kirtland leadership and Kirtland “Top 3” members hold encouraging signs at base gates during the morning inbound commute as part of their new initiative, “Don’t Give Up Movement,” at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

  • Team Kirtland takes part in ‘Heroes Day’

    Team Kirtland members from across the base took part in the ‘Heroes Day’ football game with the University of New Mexico playing against the U.S. Air Force Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Nov. 23, 2019.