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  • AFTAC hosts Student Expo in conjunction with WiSE Symposium

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center, headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., hosted its annual Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Symposium March 12-13 at the Space Coast Health Foundation in Brevard County. On the second day of the symposium, nearly three dozen exhibitors with

  • KSC chief, PDDNI among keynote speakers at WiSE Symposium

    The Air Force Technical Applications Center, headquartered at Patrick Space Force Base, Fla., hosted its annual Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Symposium March 12-13 at the Space Coast Health Foundation in Brevard County. Among the distinguished keynote speakers were Ms. Janet Petro,

  • SECAF, 16th Air Force CC visit America’s Cryptologic Wing

    The 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing hosted Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall on Feb. 2 and U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Kevin Kennedy 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) commander, from Feb. 1-2, 2024, to learn about the wing’s cryptologic mission.

  • STRATCOM commander visits nuke treaty monitoring center

    For the first time since taking command of U.S. Strategic Command, Gen. Anthony J. Cotton and his Command Senior Enlisted Leader, Sgt. Maj. Howard Kreamer, visited the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear treaty monitoring center Nov. 16. The combatant command leadership team came to the Air Force

  • Det 4 provides a data analysis capability for ACC units

    Air Combat Command's Detachment 4 supports commanders and warfighters across ACC's Numbered Air Forces, Air Operations Centers, Wings, and levels below the Wing to deliver decision dominance through data analytics. Det 4's mission is to execute operational analysis by transforming data into decision

  • 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

  • 363d ISR Wing NCO embodies Lance P. Sijan’s leadership and character

    On Nov. 9, 1967, Capt. Lance P. Sijan ejected from his disabled aircraft during a flight over North Vietnam and evaded capture for more than six weeks. Sijan was the first Air Force Academy graduate to receive the Medal of Honor, awarded posthumously, in 1976. He received the military’s highest

  • 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