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  • 377 ABW Receives Outstanding Unit Award

    Maj. Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander, Twentieth Air Force, Air Force Global Strike Command, announced today that the 377 Air Base Wing has been awarded the Outstanding Unit Award for 2016. The Outstanding Unit Award is awarded to any unit of the U.S. Air Force which performs exceptionally

  • Froehlichs receive O’Malley Award

    For the past two years, Kirtland has enjoyed having at its helm the top wing commander and spouse duo in the Air Force.Col. Eric Froehlich, former 377th Air Base Wing commander, and his wife, Stephanie, were recently awarded the Air Force 2017 General and Mrs. Jerome O’Malley Award.The O’Malley

  • TEDx Albuquerque visits AFRL

    The Air Force Research Laboratory gave members of TEDx Albuquerque and the local community a glimpse of some upcoming projects during a tour on Kirtland Air Force Base May 17.

  • 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,

  • 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