BUCKLEY AFB, Colorado, March 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Reserve Personnel Center issued the following news: Applicable to: Individual Ready Reserve The Air Force is set to conduct a Push Pull Mobilization exercise from 5-9 August 2024 at Lackland Air Force Base and Keesler Air Force Base. The exercise will focus on the Air Force's ability to mobilize the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) members to augment the Active-Duty forces. A call for volunteers from the IRR was initiated via e-mail on 1 M  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- NASA issued the following statement on Feb. 29, 2024, by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: * * * The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on former NASA Administrator and astronaut Richard Truly, who passed away Feb. 27, 2024, at his home in Genesee, Colorado, at the age of 86. "NASA is the place it is today because of people of character, vision, and a spirit of service - people like the great man we lost Feb. 27, former NASA administrator, associ  more

LOVELAND, Colorado, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release on March 1, 2024: On Tuesday, March 5, the Bureau of Reclamation expects to begin releasing Colorado-Big Thompson Project water to the Big Thompson River due to ongoing work at Pole Hill Powerplant. Releases from Olympus Dam in Estes Park will begin slowly, at a rate of about 40 cubic feet per second and potentially increase to as high as 440 cubic feet per second by mid-  more

PETERSON AFB, Colorado, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's U.S. Space Command issued the following news: U.S. Space Force Gen. Stephen N. Whiting, U.S. Space Command commander, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., February 29. Testifying alongside U.S. Air Force Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, Whiting outlined the command's increasingly vital role in national security. "U.S. Space Command, working with Allies and Partn  more