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  • AFRL technology developed MAFFS 40 years ago

    The last two Modular Airborne Fire-fighting System equipped C-130 aircrafts here in support of wildfire suppression returned to their home station July 14.The MAFFS flew 242 sorties and 215.3 hours. They dropped 609,960 gallons of water weighing 5,550,640 pounds. The aircrafts were staged at

  • Nationally recognized

    Former La Luz Academy students Lana Kimmel, Jack Hanson and Haley Hanson received national recognition for their achievements in science, technology, engineering and mathematics during the 2010-11 school year. All three participated in the Air Force Research Laboratory's La Luz Academy, an education

  • Scientists, engineers selected as Fellows

    Three Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers from Kirtland Air Force Base have been recognized as AFRL Fellows. Recipients are noted for their research and development and technical program management. Dr. Don Shiffler of the Directed Energy Directorate was selected for his research

  • AFRL academy is accepting applications

    The Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy is accepting applications for the science, technology, engineering and mathematics camp for base family students who will be in the fifth through seventh grade for the 2011-12 school year. Students will take part in hands-on, inquiry-based activities

  • Fifth-grade students build ‘Mars’ colony

    More than 1,200 fifth-grade students from 40 New Mexico schools gathered May 6 at the Albuquerque Convention Center to link 62 inflatable shelters to form a "Mars" colony. This is the 17 year the Air Force Research Laboratory La Luz Academy has hosted the Mars Missions Flight event.The students

  • Midshipmen and 'Horns win AFRL competition

    For the seven universities participating in the sixth annual Air Force Research Laboratory Rapid Reaction Challenge, the rocky terrain covering the over six-mile course up a mountain on the far southeast boundary of Kirtland Air Force Base appeared daunt ing, but achievable for their entered

  • Partnership is a starting point

    A formal signing April 22 at the University of New Mexico's Zimmerman Library involving Kirtland AFB's two Air Force Research Laboratory directorates, Directed Energy and Space Vehicles, and the host academic institution, initiated an educational collaboration that benefits all participants. For all

  • Experts talk technology

    Officials from the state of New Mexico, Bernalillo County and the city of Albuquerque gathered April 5 at Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate's lobby in Building 472 to watch cryogenic experiments and displays and talk to experts about their programs at AFRL's State Day. The

  • Base-led experiments to visit space station

    When the final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 29, two experiments administered by the Air Force Research Laboratory's Space Vehicles Directorate will be housed in its cargo bay awaiting transfer to the

  • AFRL hosting Rapid Reaction Challenge

    Beginning today and occurring through April 27, a remote location in the southeast corner of Kirtland Air Force Base will become a proving ground for seven U.S. universities' creativity and design in their attempt to meet an urgent warfighter requirement during AFRL's annual Rapid Reaction