The Air Force announced earlier this month that Malmstrom Air Force Base was one of two bases selected for a nuclear microreactor. This week, the Air Force announced, in conjunction with the Defense Innovation Unit, that it has paired Westinghouse Government Services with Malmstrom to potentially develop and operate a microreactor on the base as part of the Advanced Nuclear Power
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Malmstrom Air Force Base is one of two bases selected as potential locations for nuclear microreactors under the federal Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations, or ANPI, program. The Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit selected Malmstrom and Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado. “By advancing the use of next-generation nuclear energy, the [Air Force] is strengthening the energy security of our
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Update April 11 with additional information An airman assigned to Malmstrom Air Force Base was killed April 9 in an off-base vehicle crash around 3 p.m. According to Malmstrom public affairs, the airman was transported to Benefis Health System by first responders following the incident and was pronounced deceased. The airman has been identified as Airman 1st Class Daris Benally,
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The Air Force’s Sentinel program is a behemoth with evolving details, but there’s been “forward aggressive progress.” That’s what Peter Sturdivant has seen in the six months since being named director of intercontinental ballistic missile infrastructure for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center at Hill Air Force Base in Utah. On April 1, Sturdivant and Lt. Col. John Mayer, the Sentinel
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The 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base has been named the Omaha Trophy winner again. Adm. Rich Correll, U.S. Strategic Command commander, announced the winners recently. The 2025 Omaha Trophy recipients are: Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: 341st Missile Wing, Malmstrom Air Force Base Ballistic Missile Submarine: USS Maryland (SSBN 738), Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga. Strategic Bomber: 509th
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Cascade County Commissioners have scheduled interviews for April 2 for the community installation liaison position for which they received a federal grant for last fall. Commissioners are scheduled to interview five candidates. The interviews may be conducted in closed session, under state law, since the Cascade County Attorney’s Office determined these interviews could be done privately if the applicants asserted
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Anjol Tajuan Lewis was sentenced to a 15-year Montana Department of Corrections commitment with all time suspended by Judge John Kutzman on March 6. Lewis entered a guilty plea on a felony count of assault with a weapon causing bodily injury in October in connection with the Nov. 6, 2022 shooting at The Do Bar. Lewis was 21 and an
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Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with two test re-entry vehicles at 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on March 3 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This launch, designated GT 255, was scheduled years ago, and is not in response to world events. The Air Force typically conducts
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The local 911 dispatch system went down for several hours in the early hours of March 3. The outage was due to maintenance on a fiber optic line that apparently caused a multi-county outage for cell coverage, affecting the 911 dispatch system from about 12:30-3 a.m. on March 3, according to multiple local officials. A reader contacted The Electric on
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Air Force Global Strike Command is conducting a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile next week. The test launch is scheduled between 11:01 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on March 3 and 5:01 a.m. PST on March 4 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It’s a routine test launch that was scheduled years in advance. First
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