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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Operating a computer program that allows him to destroy a ballistic missile with a relay mirror-laser combination is Maj. Gen. Ted F. Bowlds, right, commander of Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Explaining the program is 1st Lt. Brian Spanbauer of the laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate. The general was among several thousand attendees at last week’s 23rd National Space Symposium in Colorado Springs. Six of the laboratory’s technology directorates were at this corporate exhibit, one of more than 100 displays at this event.
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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – A researcher who was presented an Air Medal and a Joint Service Commendation Medal was the first of 24 people at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate here who were recognized at a ceremony on Thursday (Feb. 22).
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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Susan J. Thornton was promoted Monday (Feb. 12) to senior executive service, a rank just below that of top presidential appointees, reserved for U.S. government employees serving in key positions throughout approximately 75 federal agencies. Thornton heads the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate here.
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KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – Susan J. Thornton, right, speaks informally to Brig. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski just before being promoted to senior executive service, a rank just below that of top presidential appointees. The general, commander of the Military Satellite Communications Systems Wing at Los Angeles (Calif.) Air Force Base, officiated at the ceremony this Monday (Feb. 12). As director of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., Thornton heads a $300-million-a-year, 800-person organization that develops high-energy lasers, high-power microwaves, and other directed energy technologies for the United States Air Force and the Department of Defense.
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HAWAII – Replacing a telescope atop Mauna Kea with one that can spot Earth-threatening asteroids and comets is the subject of public meetings slated to take place over the next two weeks on the islands of Hawaii, Oahu and Maui.
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