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  • Kirtland Noncommissioned Officer Academy deactivates

    The Kirtland Noncommissioned Officer Academy celebrated the graduation of its 418th and final class July 10. Events included Col. Charles W. Johnson, Barnes Center for Enlisted Education commander, officiating at a full pass-in-review parade at noon on the drill pad located behind the academy. The

  • Guidelines for dealing with suspicious items

    If you do not act appropriately when confronted with a suspicious package or other item, you could endanger yourself or others with improper initial actions.   If you should come across a suspicious item, please use the following guidelines:   · Stay calm   · Do not touch it   · Remove yourself at

  • Briefing for industry is Aug. 17-19

    The 23rd Annual Briefing For Industry 2009 will be Aug. 17-19 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.   The event is cosponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Professional Aerospace Contractors Association of New Mexico, a nonprofit organization serving the aerospace contracting

  • 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