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March 20, 2020
AFRL remembers fallen Airman

On Feb. 24, 1983, 2nd Lt. Guise Vander Linden was accidentally electrocuted while conducting research in one of the Air Force’s laser laboratories at Kirtland AFB.
Feb. 28, 2020
AFRL Cheers on 2020 Annual Award Winners

More than 300 members of the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates gathered to cheer on their nominees at the 2020 Annual Awards ceremony held at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. on Feb. 12.
Feb. 27, 2020
Kirtland is an integral hub for U.S. Space Force

Kirtland’s 52,000 acres have been referred to as a national security complex—where 108 mission partners under five different Air Force major commands, and the Departments of the Air Force and Energy, populate the mega base. Now this includes elements of the newly created sixth armed service—the
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.