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Jan. 30, 2020
Kirtland AFB Thrift Shop: Celebrating 68 years

U.S. Air Force Col. David S. Miller, 377th Air Base Wing commander, recognized Thrift Shop volunteers and employees Jan. 25, 2019, with his coin and a certificate naming and thanking each of them.
Jan. 29, 2020
Air Force Research Laboratory satellite departing International Space Station

An Air Force Research Laboratory satellite, called the Very Low Frequency Propagation Mapper, or VPM, will be released from the International Space Station Jan. 31.
Jan. 28, 2020
AFRL Researchers Honored by SPIE Society

Recently SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomed 72 new Fellows of the society, including the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Drs. Wellesley Pereira and Christopher Wilcox.
Jan. 8, 2020
AFRL engineer leaves a legacy called HADES

The Air Force Research Laboratory has developed a unique directed energy weapon demonstrator called the High-power Adaptive Directed Energy System, or HADES, that completed field testing in 2019. “HADES technology was designed with the warfighter in mind,” said the AFRL program manager Dan Marker.
Dec. 20, 2019
AFRL Technology Goes to the Moon

The Roll-Out Solar Array, or ROSA, developed here at the Air Force Research Laboratory will be used in the NASA [Lunar] Gateway program, which aims to land U.S. women and men on the moon by 2024.
Dec. 19, 2019
Expanded access to KAFB services for disabled veterans, caregivers rolls out January 1

Starting Jan. 1, 2020, verified Veterans who hold the Veterans Health ID Card and caregivers with qualified eligibility will be afforded privileges to the commissary, military service exchange and MWR facilities on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.
Dec. 10, 2019
AFRL Takes Creative Approach to Collaborating With Deployed Airmen on Innovation

The AFRL is helping to develop ways for its community to pursue ingenuity. This has taken on several forms, including standing up “maker spaces,” where employees can use tools to create, and providing events to pitch invention ideas to a panel of judges that could present patent opportunities.
Dec. 5, 2019
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
Dec. 4, 2019
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
Dec. 3, 2019
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

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