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  • 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

  • AFTAC partners with Florida Tech for third research agreement

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center here renewed its cooperative research and development agreement with Florida Institute of Technology Nov. 15 at a symbolic signing held at the university’s Melbourne, Fla., campus. A CRADA is a government contract that allows for R&D collaboration between

  • Scouts earn rare badge with help from AFTAC

    Boy Scouts from around Central Florida traveled to the Air Force Technical Applications Center Oct. 22 to earn one of the Boy Scouts of America’s more rare badges, the Nuclear Science Merit Badge (formerly known as the Atomic Energy Badge). Just over 5,000 Scouts worldwide earn the NSMB each year,

  • “Call me when you quit”

    He’s met queens and princes, presidents and movie stars.  He’s won multiple gold medals, carried the American Flag to center field during the opening ceremonies of Super Bowl LI, and has been in the company of some of the U.S. military’s most senior officers. And yet, he remains grounded, humble,

  • CTBTO Executive Secretary visits AFTAC

    The executive secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization visited the Air Force Technical Applications Center Oct. 25 to learn more about the intricate and important partnership the two agencies share. Dr. Robert Floyd took over as CTBTO’s top leader in August 2021 and in

  • Finlayson takes command of nuclear treaty monitoring center

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center gained a new commander June 2 during the time-honored military tradition known as the change of command ceremony. Col. James “Cobra” Finlayson assumed command from Col. Katharine Branson, with Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of 16th Air Force, serving as

  • AFTAC, MSC inactivate ballistic missile tracking ship

    The Department of Defense's sole nuclear treaty monitoring center, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command, inactivated U.S. Naval Ship Invincible Dec. 15, 2021, at a ceremony at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. Members of the Air Force Technical Applications Center

  • Florida nuke experts witness payload launch into orbit

    Scientists and engineers from the Air Force Technical Applications Center had the rare opportunity to see the realization of their work aboard the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program Satellite 6, or STPSat-6, and witness the fruits of their labor hurtle into the atmosphere from Space Launch

  • AFTAC gets first-ever Space Force vice commander

    For the first time in its history, the Air Force Technical Applications Center has a Space Force colonel as the vice commander. Col. Richard R. Beckman took the oath of office Aug. 20, officially swearing him into the U.S. Space Force at a ceremony held at the nuclear treaty monitoring center