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AFRL participates in S.T.E.A.M. event in ABQ

2nd Lt. J.D. Vera Cruz, Air Force Research Laboratory aerospace engineer and 1st Lt. Brennan Taylor, AFRL Research and Development program manager, showcase AFRL laser capabilities to Albuquerque Public Schools students at the Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math Discovery Festival in Albuquerque, N.M., Nov. 9. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. J.D. Strong II)
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AFRL Scholars Career Forum

Air Force Research Labs hosted its fourth annual Scholars Career Forum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., June 26. The forum hosted 160 scholars from more than 80 different high schools, colleges and universities, ranging from high school to Ph.D. students. The forum brings together program students with employees from 14 well-known companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missiles Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and many others. Representing Kirtland was the AFRL and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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AFRL Scholars Career Forum

Air Force Research Labs hosted its fourth annual Scholars Career Forum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., June 26. The forum hosted 160 scholars from more than 80 different high schools, colleges and universities, ranging from high school to Ph.D. students. The forum brings together program students with employees from 14 well-known companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missiles Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and many others. Representing Kirtland was the AFRL and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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AFRL Scholars Career Forum

Air Force Research Labs hosted its fourth annual Scholars Career Forum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., June 26. The forum hosted 160 scholars from more than 80 different high schools, colleges and universities, ranging from high school to Ph.D. students. The forum brings together program students with employees from 14 well-known companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missiles Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and many others. Representing Kirtland was the AFRL and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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AFRL Scholars Career Forum

Air Force Research Labs hosted its fourth annual Scholars Career Forum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., June 26. The forum hosted 160 scholars from more than 80 different high schools, colleges and universities, ranging from high school to Ph.D. students. The forum brings together program students with employees from 14 well-known companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missiles Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and many others. Representing Kirtland was the AFRL and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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AFRL Scholars Career Forum

Air Force Research Labs hosted its fourth annual Scholars Career Forum at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., June 26. The forum hosted 160 scholars from more than 80 different high schools, colleges and universities, ranging from high school to Ph.D. students. The forum brings together program students with employees from 14 well-known companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Missiles Systems, Jet Propulsion Laboratories and many others. Representing Kirtland was the AFRL and the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center.
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AFRL awards

Members of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate’s Roll-Out Solar Array team was a Team Stellar Award winner at the 2018 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement. From left to right: Joy Stein, John Merrill, Kyle Montgomery, Dr. Jeremy Banik, Dr. Andrew Williams, Michael Peterson, Dr. Paul Hausgen and David Wilt.
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AFRL awards

Capt. Michael Nayak receives the 2018 Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Early Career Stellar Award from Dr. Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut and holder of the U.S. record for time spent in space. Nayak is a planetary scientist and aerospace engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site on Maui, Hawaii.
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AFRL awards

Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate physicist David Wilt, second from right, won a Late Career Stellar Award at the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement ceremony. Wilt is pictured with all of the Late Career Stellar award winners. The group is flanked by NASA astronauts Col. (ret) R. Shane Kimbrough and Dr. Peggy Whitson.
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Ground breaking

Kirtland leaders broke ground for the Navigation Technology Satellite Integration Laboratory, a $3.8 million state-of-the-art research facility that will allow the Air Force Research Laboratory to maintain vibrant in-house research capabilities. The 10,000 square foot facility is expected to be completed this fall. From left to right: Barry Bunn, deputy director of AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate; Col. Sam Johnson, integrated experiments and evaluation division chief; Kevin Slimak, AGT program manager; Maj. John Miller, USACE deputy commander, Albuquerque District; Bo Bohannon, base civil engineer; Jon Anthony, construction contractor; Maria Mendoza, AFRL project manager; and Michael Gallegos, infrastructure management chief.
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AFRL award

Jeremy Banik, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate's principal investigator on the Roll-Out Solar Array program, shows the AFRL-developed boom for the solar array. The boom is 16 feet long, and rolls out and back up using strain energy.
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AFRL award

Brent Taft, Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate thermal systems lead, shows an oscillating heat pipe and an oscillating heat pipe by itself. An oscillating heat pipe can remove 14 times more heat from electronics than the technology in use now.
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Maui plays important role in nation's defense

The Air Force Research Laboratory’s 3.6-meter telescope named the Advanced Electro-Optical System or AEOS. AEOS and several smallerAFRL telescopes on Haleakalā support the nation’s space situational awareness program.
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Maui plays important role in nation's defense

The Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site STEM Outreach visit to the Maui Waena School. The photo shows the students in front to the AFRL portable, digital planetarium. The students received a tour of the night sky with a focus on stellar navigation techniques used by the Polynesian canoe Hōkūleʻa in its voyage home to Hawai'i.
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Michael Peterson

Michael Peterson
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Andrew Williams

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Integrated Structural Systems Program are receiving an award for their achievement in notable technology development.
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Jeremy Banik

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Integrated Structural Systems Program are receiving an award for their achievement in notable technology development.
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High-Strain Composite

Michael Peterson, top, and Benjamin Urioste test the deployment of a high-strain composite reflector at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate.
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TEDx visits AFRL

Local community members along with TEDX ABQ members take a photo in front of an active denial truck at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, May 17. Visitors spent the day learning about high power electromagnetics division technology which is often misrepresented via myth or social media.
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MAX POWER leaving Kirtland after AFRL transfers program to Army

MAX POWER drives out the Carlisle gate of Kirtland Air Force Base, May 16, 2017. The program will transfer to the US Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or ARDEC, headquartered at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J. ARDEC will continue R&D on MAX POWER locally however, at New Mexico Tech’s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center near Socorro. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Chandler Baker)
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