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  • Air Force conducts third Sentinel static fire test

    The Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, Northrop Grumman and Aerojet Rocketdyne conducted a static fire test March 16, 2024, for the Stage-3 solid rocket motor of the LGM-35A Sentinel weapon system at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex, Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee.

  • AEDC awards new Test Operations and Sustainment contract

    The Contracting office at Arnold Air Force Base awarded the Test Operations and Sustainment (TOS) II contract valued at more than $3.7 billion on March 14.  This contract will ensure continuity of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) ground test mission for the next several years.Beyond

  • Arnold AFB Fitness Center marks a year of Kickboxing

    Kicking, punching, and blocking their way to a healthier lifestyle are the folks at Arnold Air Force Base Fitness Center. In the January 2023, the center began offering kickboxing classes to its members. The center recently celebrated a year of the class that continues to grow in interest. Arnold

  • DOD resource offers array of information on dietary supplements

    A resource is available for team members at Arnold Air Force Base and across Arnold Engineering Development Complex seeking more information on dietary supplements.Operation Supplement Safety, or OPSS, is the Department of Defense’s program for anything related to dietary supplements. OPSS partners

  • Ladder Safety Month: Slips, Trips and Falls

    I had started gathering information for this article, it is Ladder Safety Month after all, when I was interrupted by a call from a buddy of mine telling me that his wife had slipped in the mud, fell to her knees, and broken her femur.She was not jumping or falling from a height or doing something

  • Annual prescribed burn season nears at Arnold AFB

    The Arnold Air Force Base Natural Resources Management Team will soon begin prescribed fire operations.To support the Air Force’s mission at Arnold Engineering Development Complex, headquartered at Arnold AFB, prescribed fire will be utilized to help maintain plant communities in such a way that

  • Maj. Gen. Alice Treviño visits Arnold AFB

    Maj. Gen. Alice Treviño, deputy assistant secretary for contracting with Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, visited Arnold Air Force Base Dec. 5-6 to meet with base contracting personnel and get a closer look at some of the test capabilities

  • UTSI welcomes AEDC commander for 29th annual Black History Celebration

    The University of Tennessee Space Institute hosted its 29th annual Black History Month Celebration Feb. 14 in the UTSI Auditorium where Arnold Engineering Development Complex commander, Col. Randel Gordon, was the speaker.He spoke about a personal hero, U.S. Air Force Capt. Ed Dwight Jr. A

  • AEDC honors annual award winners

    Arnold Engineering Development Complex leadership honored military and civilian government AEDC annual award winners and nominees for their contributions and achievements in 2023 during a Feb. 15 ceremony. “Arnold Engineering Development Complex is by far the most professional, most capable group of

  • Arnold AFB’s economic impact exceeds $1 billion in fiscal year 2023

    The economic impact of Arnold Air Force Base across the state of Tennessee was $1.06 billion for the 2023 fiscal year.Arnold AFB impacted the local areas through payroll, secondary jobs created through local spending, and other expenditures for supplies, utilities, fuel and services and the spin-off