SecAF immerses into Nuke Treaty Monitoring Center mission
Published Jan. 19, 2023
By Susan A. Romano
Air Force Technical Applications Center Public Affairs
PATRICK SPACE FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFNS) -- For the first time since assuming his position in July 2021, Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall visited the Defense Department's sole nuclear treaty monitoring center at Patrick Space Force Base Jan. 18 to learn more about how the organization performs its global mission.
Kendall, accompanied by Kristyn Jones, assistant secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management and Comptroller, spent time with Airmen and Guardians of the Air Force Technical Applications Center to learn how they detect technical data from foreign nuclear explosions and report it to national decision makers.
AFTAC is the Air Force's largest sensor network, responsible for operating and maintaining a global network of nuclear event detection equipment as part of the U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System. Kendall and Jones received briefings from AFTAC's seismic, materials, directed energy and weapons of mass destruction subject matter experts to illustrate the depth, scope and breadth of the center's verification technologies.
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