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  • 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

  • Kirtland's EO office wins award for ADR program

    The 377th Air Base Wing's Equal Opportunity Office received the 2013 Air Force Alternative Dispute Resolution Program of the Year award for small organizations. "It's a good feeling to be recognized for all our hard work," said Ofelia Mejiaortega, EO specialist who manages the ADR program at

  • Lessons from engineering competition could help save lives

    The Air Force Research Laboratory recently held its third annual AFRL Collegiate and Service Academy Engineering Design Competition. Seventeen universities and three service academies participated in the event, which was held at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex located on Arnold Air Force

  • Kirtland sergeant receives Bronze Star, Purple Heart medals

    A Kirtland warrior received two military medals after surviving a car bombing while deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan."I never thought I'd receive a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Medal," said Tech. Sgt. Austin Hardin, a paralegal in the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center Legal Office. "Although I wish I

  • Kirtland spouse nets AFMC Key Spouse of the Year Award

    A Team Kirtland member was selected as the Air Force Materiel Command Key Spouse of the Year.Beth Moran, wife of Master Sgt. Andy Moran of the 377th Security Forces Squadron, was selected for her efforts with the Kirtland Key Spouse Program. She said she is honored to receive the award, but shares

  • Summer STEM camp for students from Kirtland families

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy is accepting applications for its science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, camp for students from Kirtland families. Students who will be going into 5th or 6th grade in the 2014-15 school year, will spend the week exploring hands-on

  • AFRL La Luz Academy holds ‘egg-cellent’ symposium

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy STEM Challenge Flight really came out of its shell at the culminating STEM Challenge Symposium.AFRL La Luz Academy at Kirtland is an education outreach program that promotes science, technology, engineering and math education activities for New Mexico

  • More than 1,000 New Mexico fifth graders to simulate trip to Mars

    More than 1,000 fifth grade students from 40 New Mexico schools will come together May 2 at the Albuquerque Convention Center to simulate going on a manned mission to Mars.Mars Link-Up Day is the culminating event of the Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy's Mars Missions Flight, a science,