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  • Tech. Sgt. Matthew O'Neill working at a computer.

    557th WW integrating with 16th AF missions

    The 557th Weather Wing is working to integrate its strengths into the recently formed 16th Air Force, which brought intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber, electronic warfare, information operations and weather all under one roof. Integration is a key theme for the Air Force’s first information warfare numbered air force.
  • Chief Master Sgt. Summer Leifer (center), 16th Air Force Command Chief, sends a burst of air using an air cannon at a hybrid seismic-infrasound sensor that's being tested by Central Repair Facility Airmen at the Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, Fla. Leifer and 16th Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh (right/center, smiling), visited the nuclear treaty monitoring center Dec. 16, 2019 to get an up-close look at how AFTAC plays a critical role in the Numbered Air Force’s overarching intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber and electronic warfare mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Susan A. Romano)

    New 16th AF commander, command chief immerse into AFTAC mission

    The new 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) commander visited the Air Force Technical Applications Center Dec. 16 to get an up-close look at how the nuclear treaty monitoring center plays a critical role in the Numbered Air Force’s overarching intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, cyber and electronic warfare mission.
  • Gen. Stephen W. "Seve" Wilson, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, listens as Col. Chad J. Hartman (foreground), commander of the Air Force Technical Applications Center, briefs the general Dec. 4, 2019 on how the U.S. technical surveillance center of excellence is addressing "wicked problems" that nuclear nonproliferation poses to senior defense officials. Also pictured is Col. Brande H. Walton, Vice Commander for the 45th Space Wing, Patrick AFB, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Susan A. Romano)

    VCSAF meets with nuclear scientists, engineers about future operations

    Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen W. “Seve” Wilson paid a visit to the Air Force Technical Applications Center here Dec. 4 to meet with nuclear scientists and engineers about their role in global nuclear deterrence and nonproliferation. The purpose of the visit was to give the visiting Air Force senior leaders an opportunity to discuss future operations and algorithmic warfare with members of the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear treaty monitoring center and the U.S.’s technical surveillance center of excellence.
  • Victoria Scira, a nuclear data analyst at the Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, Fla., examines a thermal ionization mass spectrometer in the AFTAC's Ciambrone Radiochemistry Lab. Scira was recently hired to work at the nuclear treaty monitoring center after being selected for the Air Force Personnel Center's Science and Engineering Palace Acquire program that offers permanent full-time positions in various career fields to prospective candidates (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew S. Jurgens)

    Local ’16 valedictorian recruited by AFTAC as nuclear data analyst

    Through the Palace Acquire Program, the Air Force Technical Applications Center here recruited a recent University of South Florida undergraduate to work as a nuclear data analyst in the center’s Ciambrone Radiochemistry Laboratory. Victoria Scira joined the AFTAC team in June 2019 after graduating magna cum laude from USF in May with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.
  • Students attending STEMversity in Milledgeville, Ga., work on a lab experiment with the help of Airman from the Air Force Technical Applications Center. Each year, volunteers from the nuclear treaty monitoring center at Patrick AFB, Fla., provide expertise in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to the summer campers at Central Georgia Technical College. (U.S. Air Force photo by Stephanie Homitz)

    Experts from AFTAC travel to Georgia for STEMversity

    In an effort to foster the betterment of underserved minority middle and high school students, members of the Air Force Technical Applications Center here traveled to Georgia recently to serve as mentors at STEMversity. Dr. Andrew Giminaro, a nuclear forensics analyst for the nuclear treaty monitoring center, led the team of AFTAC volunteers who provided expertise in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to the summer campers at Central Georgia Technical College in Milledgeville.
  • CTBTO Preparatory Commission Executive Secretary Dr. Lassina Zerbo (right) meets with Air Force Technical Applications Center Commander Col. Chad Hartman at Patrick AFB, Fla., July 25, 2019 to discuss the collaborative partnership the two organizations have been able to capitalize on by employing emerging technologies and breakthroughs in nuclear monitoring innovations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew S. Jurgens)

    International, technical partnership continues to flourish

    Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization Preparatory Commission executive secretary, Dr. Lassina Zerbo, traveled from his headquarters in Vienna to meet with Air Force Technical Applications Center commander, Col. Chad Hartman, in Florida July 25 to discuss modernization of the National Data Center and how AFTAC’s support to the International Data Center is fundamental to their re-engineering efforts.
  • Pictured is the medallion presented to inductees on the Air Force Technical Applications Center's Wall of Honor. The medallion, which was created by 1st Lt. Adam Satterfield and Master Sgt. Chad Taguba, former members of AFTAC, symbolizes the inductees' contributions to long range detection and nuclear treaty monitoring, AFTAC's primary mission. The back of the medallion has a personalized inscription that reads, “Let this medallion signify its recipient is a member of an elite and noble group of Airmen who stand in silent vigil for the good of all humankind.” (U.S. Air Force photo by Susan A. Romano)

    Three inducted into AFTAC Wall of Honor

    Three former members of the Air Force Technical Applications Center here were inducted into the center’s famed Wall of Honor recently.
  • Tech. Sgt. Dmitriy Burshteyn, a field test team noncommissioned officer in charge with the Air Force Technical Applications Center, uses a remote firing device to detonate explosives while field testing new infrasound equipment at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew S. Jurgens)

    From Uzbekistan to America: One Airman's Tale

    Bukhara is a centuries-old, culturally-rich city in the Asian country of Uzbekistan. Located on the historic Silk Road (a network of ancient trade routes that connected the East to the West), it has long been an epicenter of exports, scholarship, language and religion.
  • Members of the Miami Hurricanes hockey team stand in unity with the Air Force Technical Applications Center hockey club during the National Anthem Feb. 23, 2019 at an exhibition game at Pembroke Pines Ice Arena, Miami’s home rink. AFTAC went on to defeat the 'Canes 12-8. (Courtesy Photo)

    AFTAC Hockey defeats nationally-ranked Miami Hurricanes

    In a stunning victory against a nationally-ranked Division 3 hockey club, the Air Force Technical Applications Center hockey team defeated the Miami Hurricanes Feb. 23 at Pembroke Pines Ice Arena, Miami’s home rink.
  • U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Oralia Howard, an Air Force Spark Tank finalist from Royal Air Force Lakenheath whose project dealt with F-15 and F-16 launcher overspray protectors, examines a 3-D sphere created by members of the Air Force Technical Applications Center's Innovation Lab at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Howard was one of six finalists who visited the nuclear treaty monitoring center March 1, 2019 to collaborate on innovation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Matthew S. Jurgens)

    USAF Spark Tank finalists, winner visit AFTAC

    Finalists from the 2019 Air Force Spark Tank competition visited the Air Force Technical Applications Center here March 1 to meet with members of the center’s Innovation Lab and observe how failure has led to success for the nuclear treaty monitoring organization.
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