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  • 39-year-old Airman with doctorate arrives at AFTAC

    Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, is home to Air Force Basic Military Training, and on any given day, there are more than 7,000 new recruits undergoing the 7-week program. The average age of trainees who undergo the Air Force’s introduction to military service is 21. In October 2022,

  • VCJCS pays historic visit to nuke treaty monitoring center

    For the first time in its decades-long history, the Air Force Technical Applications Center here hosted the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his spouse June 9, 2023. Admiral Christopher W. Grady received several classified briefings about how the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear

  • 70th ISRW welcomes new commander

    U.S. Air Force Col. Craig S. Miller, 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing commander, relinquished command to U.S. Air Force Col. Celina Noyes, during a Change of Command Ceremony June 9, 2023, at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.

  • Airman hailed ‘a hero’ after helping trapped motorist, child

    What was supposed to be a typical drive home turned into an act of heroism for one Airman stationed at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla. Senior Airman Tyler Johnson had just finished his shift as a Subsurface Operations Manager for the 22nd Surveillance Squadron at the Air Force Technical Applications

  • Breaking Ground for Fallen Airmen

    Since 1947, the mission of long range detection has been the responsibility of what is now known as the Air Force Technical Applications Center, and over the course of those 75 years, 81 Airmen – civilian and military alike – have died while in active government service. Prior to moving into their

  • 70th ISRW Airmen tests 2nd generation mobile radar equipment

    U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Kurtis Knights, 29th Intelligence Squadron target development network analyst, assembles a mobile radar, March 1, 2023, at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. The radar is the second generation of its kind, providing mobile communications with an end-to-end connection

  • AFTAC briefs Member of Congress on nuclear mission

    Rep. Bill Posey, who represents Florida’s 8th District, visited the Air Force Technical Applications Center Feb. 22 to receive a mission update on current world events that affect the nuclear treaty monitoring center. Topics of discussion included classified briefings involving AFTAC’s current

  • Air Force Secretary immerses into Nuke Treaty Monitoring Center mission

    For the first time since assuming his position in July 2021, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall visited the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear treaty monitoring center here Jan. 18 to learn more about how the organization performs its global mission. Kendall, accompanied by Honorable Kristyn

  • Family of AFTAC Headquarters’ namesake visits for first time

    In 2014, the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear treaty monitoring center held a ribbon cutting ceremony to officially commemorate the naming of its headquarters after an iconic leader and pioneer of long range detection. The Air Force Technical Applications Center christened its 276,000