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  • Space Test Program celebrates 50th anniversary of first launch

    The Air Force Space and Missile Center celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Department of Defense Space Test Program's first launch May 15 at Kirtland. The celebration was tied into a yearly conference the Advanced Systems and Development Directorate hosts at Kirtland. SMC, headquartered at Los

  • AFRL captain earns German military proficiency badge

    An Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate physicist considers herself lucky to have experienced a recent deployment to Afghanistan, where she earned a German badge for military skills.

  • AFNWC receives Air Force Organizational Excellence award

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center received the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for the fourth time since the center stood up in 2006. The four awards span seven consecutive years, from 2009 through 2015.Ensuring U.S. nuclear weapons are “never doubted and always feared,” AFNWC

  • MAX POWER leaving Kirtland after AFRL transfers program to Army

    MAX POWER, the hulking enemy on wheels of improvised explosive devices, is leaving Kirtland and AFRL New Mexico May 16. The program and its prototype will now be taken forward by the Army. The program will transfer to the US Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC,

  • Kirtland Security Forces Police Week Memorial Retreat Ceremony

    The 377th Security Forces Group will finish a seriesof events for National Police Week (May 14-20, 2017) with a Memorial RetreatCeremony here May 18 at 4 p.m. In 1962, President John F. Kennedy proclaimed May 15 as "National PeaceOfficers Memorial Day," and the calendar week in which May 15 falls

  • AFRL Commanders Challenge seeks participants

    “Got innovation?” That’s a question that AFRL New Mexico’s John Holbrook is asking of Team Kirtland in advance of this year’s AFRL Commanders Challenge.Holbrooks is looking for a team of junior members (officers, enlisted members, and civilians with under 10 years of service) with a passion for

  • New Guidestar at MSSC at Haleakala

    A new Sodium Guidestar became operational today, sending an orange beam of light into the sky over the Maui Space Surveillance Complex near the summit at Haleakala. The MSSC, operated by the Air Force Research Laboratory, has begun operating the new Guidestar as part of a recently-completed

  • 377th Medical Group honors nurses, technicians

    The 377th Medical Group hosted a proclamation ceremony at the clinic May 8, kicking off National Nurses & Technicians Week. The proclamation was signed by Col. Jeffery White, 377th MDG commander. The group then honored nurses and technicians with a small gathering that included cake. A poster board

  • Former Vietnam POW speaks to Team Kirtland about courage, commitment

    Character, courage, and commitment were three key teaching points of the presentations given to base members by former Vietnam prisoner of war Lee Ellis May 2 and 3.Ellis, a retired Air Force colonel, was on a bombing mission during the Vietnam War when his aircraft was severely damaged.  He was