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  • Kirtland to defend title at military soccer tournament

    The Kirtland varsity soccer team is heading to San Antonio Labor Day weekend to defend its championship title at the Defenders Cup.Thirty-six teams will compete in this year's Defender's Cup, the military's version of the World Cup, where teams from all over the country compete to put their claim on

  • AFRL officer serves country, community

    For Capt. Chana Greene, an Air Force Research Laboratory scientist, the past eight years the Air Force has given her what she wanted: a job with meaning and purpose."I was destined to be an engineer or a scientist as the daughter of a math teacher and nuclear engineer," Greene said.Greene arrived at

  • Leader of Kirtland’s pharmacy lands prestigious award

    Kirtland's pharmacy is in good hands.Lt. Col. Derek Larbie, flight commander of the 377th Medical Group's pharmacy, received the American Hospital Association's 2013 Federal Health Care Executive Special Achievement Award. The award recognizes uniformed and non-uniformed federal health care leaders

  • Air Force to participate in Albuquerque's Briefing with Industry 2014

    The Air Force Research Laboratory is gearing up to take part in Albuquerque's Briefing for Industry 2014.  The event takes place Aug. 18-20. Air Force officials said participation at the BFI represents an excellent venue for businesses to meet and discuss current opportunities and learn about

  • AFRL nanosat program gets projects into space

    A program at Kirtland's Air Force Research Laboratory has engineering students design, build and launch satellites into space, all before they're even out of graduate school.Through the University Nanosat Program, tomorrow's stars of aerospace -- along with their universities and AFRL -- test

  • Two Sandia National Labs teams win R&D Magazine Awards

    Two Kirtland-based Sandia National Laboratories teams were named winners of R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Awards. One team won the award -- referred to within the research and development field as the "Oscars of invention" -- for creating a creditcard- sized device to detect anthrax bacteria. Department of

  • Extraction of fuel vapor to expand

    Kirtland is making changes to its soil vapor extraction system to increase the area from which it is drawing fuel vapor.The base will install four additional soil vapor extraction wells, which are specifically designed to remove fuel-laden vapor from the area of the fuel spill on the base.With this

  • AFRL officer bound for Harvard

    1st Lt. Curtis Christensen, who works at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed  Energy Directorate's Satellite Assessment Center, was recently accepted to Harvard Business School to pursue a master of business administration degree starting this fall.The United States Air Force Academy is