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  • Officials establish core team for Nuclear Surety Inspections

    Air Force Inspection Agency officials here recently created a new team to increase the standardization and consistency of Nuclear Surety Inspections across the Air Force. The establishment of a centralized team of nuclear inspectors, known as the Air Force NSI Core Team, is another critical

  • Base EOD team competes in Western National Robot Rodeo

    Bomb squads from around the state including the 377th Civil Engineer Division's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Branch demonstrated their skills in operating robots to diffuse dangerous situations during the third annual Western National Robot Rodeo, hosted here by Sandia National Laboratories, June

  • Tactical Satellite-3 completes successful first month of operations

    For the Tactical Satellite-3 program, what a huge difference a month makes. Launched on May 19, the experimental spacecraft, managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate here, has accomplished early on-orbit checkout and anticipates completing calibration procedures next

  • Successful launch for TacSat-3 satellite

    The sky lit up briefly over NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., the evening of May 19 as an Air Force Minotaur I rocket launched the Air Force Research Laboratory's TacSat-3 satellite, NASA's PharmaSat microsatellite and NASA's CubeSat Technology Demonstration experiments into a low earth

  • H1N1 (SWINE-ORIGIN INFLUENZA) VIRUS UPDATE, May 1, 2009

    As of this morning there were 141 laboratory confirmed cases of H1N1 Virus in 19 U.S. states, (go to http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ for details) up from 109 the day before. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not confirmed any cases in New Mexico. NEW MEXICO The New Mexico

  • H1N1 (swine) flu update, April 30, 2009

    CDC CHANGES NAME OF VIRUS The Center for Disease Control is now referring to the H1N1 Virus as the Swine-Origin Influenza Virus. LEVEL OF INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ALERT RAISED FROM PHASE 4 TO 5 April 29 -- Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, Dr

  • H1N1 (Swine) flu update, April 29

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention increased the number of cases of H1N1 Flu in the United States to 64 as of yesterday. The cases are still in the 5 states where the outbreak was originally detected. News media sources are reporting that a 23-month-old child in Texas has died from the

  • Kirtland AFB Swine Flu update, April 28, 8 a.m.

    Swine Flu update, April 28 The total number of confirmed Swine Flu cases in the United States rose yesterday to 40 (still in only 5 states). All are fully recovered. There are currently no confirmed cases in New Mexico. The World Health Organization raised its pandemic influenza phase to 4, which

  • Swine Flu Alert

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert regarding swine flu. Swine flu is a type of influenza virus that originates from pigs and has been reported to spread from person-to-person. As of April 26, Mexico has reported over 1000 cases of suspected swine flu. The