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  • Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center hosts science and engineering outreach

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center held a forum Oct. 23 at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History for college students to interact with scientists and engineers from organizations across the nuclear enterprise.Dr. Yolanda Jones King, AFNWC Director of Engineering and Technical

  • Honoring veterans past and present

    In November 1919, following the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Nov. 11 as the first commemoration of what was then known as Armistice Day. In 1954, the 83rd U.S. Congress changed the name to Veterans Day to honor all American war veterans.There are approximately 23.2 million

  • SDTW host Halloween celebration at Kirtland Elementary

    The Space Development and Test Wing hosted a crowd of miniature fairies, witches, ghosts, action heroes and even a monster or two for an early trick or treat celebration Oct. 29 with the local Kirtland Elementary School.Over 120 children accompanied by teachers and parents raided the SDTW compound

  • Balloon program deflates costs for testing

    Successful signalssent in the stratosphere near Santa Rosa in September. For the Air Force High-Altitude Balloon Program, the sentence above succinctly summarizes two test flights evaluating the Federal Aviation Administration's Automatic Dependent Surveillance- Broadcast payload at 102,000 feet

  • First ReSpace/MAPLD Conference to be held in Albuquerque

    The ReSpace/Military/Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Conference occurs Monday through Thursday at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque.This year, the MAPLD Conference, traditionally hosted by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., will be combined with ReSpace.ReSpace is a new annual

  • Kirtland AFB extends comment period for HC/MC-130J aircraft

    August 2011, Kirtland AFB is scheduled to receive the first of seven upgraded models of the C-130 under a recapitalization program approved by the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2010. The HC/MC-130J is designed to replace legacy C-130s built in the 1960s and will join the fleet of the 58th

  • Military working dogs train hard to keep Team Kirtland secure

    Keeping the population secure is the primary mission of the 377th Security Forces Squadron here at Kirtland Air Force Base. The specialized team tasked with supportingthis mission is the Military Working Dog section.The section is comprised of highly skilled handlers and working dogs trained to

  • ABL receives award for success, accomplishments

    The Missi le DefenseAgency's Airborne LaserSystem program office here has received the Air Force Organizational Excellence Award for professionalism, knowledge, technical skills and achievements in the development of the Airborne Laser System.The ABL is the first aircraft, mounted with a laser, with