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  • 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

  • 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

  • Tactical Satellite-3 wins award

    During the third annual C4ISR Big 25 Awards ceremony conducted in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 12, Tactical Satellite-3 and its primary payload, the Advanced Responsive Tactically-Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer, earned the Top 5 honor in the Sensors category.TacSat-3, administered by the Air

  • Dining Facility manager recognized as food service executive of the year

    Robert Vick, manager of the Thunderbird Inn dining facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, recently received the 2010 International Food Service Executive Association, Executive of the Year award, recognizing him as a leader and innovator in the food service industry. Over the past six years, Air Force

  • Air Force Awards Contract for Kirtland AFB Bulk Fuels Facility Remediation

    The Army Corps of Engineers, Huntsville, Ala., and Air Force officials at Kirtland AFB announced the award of the performance-based contract for the Kirtland AFB bulk fuels facility to Shaw Environmental and Infrastructure, Inc. The $23 million performance-based contract will remediate the fuel

  • Renowned scientist speaks to AFRL

    Dr. Alfred Vogel, a professor of physics and chair of the Institute for Biomedical Optics, University of Lübeck, Germany, recently spoke to members of the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. Dr. Vogel is a world-renowned physicist in the

  • Kirtland AFB's MH-53J Pave Low -- a historic pioneer

    The stretch of Aberdeen Avenue between Truman and Doris Streets, on the west side of Kirtland AFB, is home to several reminders of the Air Force's special operations and rescue heritage. The 58th Special Operations Wing maintains several historic aircraft displays along this road, most of which the

  • Air Force Research Laboratory gains High Power Microwave Institute

    As part of the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, the Office of the Secretary of Defense awarded a High-Power Microwave Institute to the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here. High-Power Microwave technology can selectively degrade,

  • AFRL physicist attains special recognition

    The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate here is proud to announce Dr. Venkata S.R. Gudimetla's elevation to senior member of the Optical Society of America.More than 160 OSA members were selected for this designation--the first class of OSA members to achieve this new