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  • 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.
  • Dr. Julie Gostic, a nuclear evaluator for the Materials Technology Directorate at the Air Force Technical Applications Center, displays an environmental sample to Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson (left) during the secretary’s visit to the nuclear treaty monitoring center at Patrick AFB, Fla., Feb. 8, 2018. (U.S. Air Force photo by Susan A. Romano)

    SecAF briefed on AFTAC role in nuclear explosions

    Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson visited the Department of Defense’s sole nuclear treaty monitoring center Feb. 8, 2018 to get a first-hand glimpse into the role the center plays in worldwide nuclear event detection.The Air Force Technical Applications Center hosted Wilson while she was in town for AFTAC’s annual Women in Science and
  • Airmen assigned to the Technical Support Squadron, Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, Fla., monitor seismic activity throughout the world in direct support of AFTAC’s nuclear treaty monitoring mission. The center maintains a global network of nuclear event detection sensors called the U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System – the largest sensor network in the U.S. Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by William B. Belcher)

    Persistent surveillance gives squadron its global purpose

    Deep within the walls of a four story structure along Florida’s Space Coast sits a squadron of Airmen whose number one mission is to detect, identify and locate nuclear explosions anywhere in the world.The Technical Surveillance Squadron, a subordinate unit to the Air Force Technical Applications Center, operates 24/7/365 and provides persistent
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