Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, NM; FY09 Economic Impact Assessment

The University of New Mexico's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) was commissioned by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and technology, an Air Force Research Laboratory partnership intermediary, to estimate the economic impact of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Kirtland Air Force Base (Kirtland AFB) on the economy of New Mexico for Federal Fiscal Year 2009 (FY09). This analysis covers the economic impact of the Directed Energy Directorate (RD) and the Space Vehicles Directorate (RV), hereafter referred to as AFRL, and which constitute the Phillips Research Site (PRS) at Kirtland in Albuquerque, NM. (Authors: Doleswar Bhandari, Jessica Bloom)