The Air Force Real Property Agency is working to convert underutilized land and infrastructure into value for the Air Force at installations across the country using the enhanced use leasing program. This is the program already used at Kirtland AFB, N.M., to launch development of an academic research facility. Air Force officials are developing enhanced use lease arrangements at Hill AFB, Utah; Patrick AFB, Fla.; Tinker AFB, Okla.; and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. An effort under consideration by Air Combat Command would lease approximately 6,000 acres with mothballed radar facilities as potential sites for renewable energy equipment. ACC says the old radar sites are ideal for something like wind farms because they are at high altitude.
Celebrating 100 Years of Liquid-Fueled Rockets
March 11, 2026
March 16, 2026, marks 100 years since Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. Over the past century, new and ever more capable liquid-fueled rockets have literally propelled humanity into space. Why liquid-fueled rockets?