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  • National Weather Service tours AEDC

    Members of the National Weather Service (NWS) recently visited Arnold AFB to understand the impact their services have on testing at the center. ATA's Emergency Management Team worked very closely with both the Huntsville and Nashville NWS offices in order for Arnold AFB to attain the designation of

  • Former AEDC employee and well-known local artist Don Northcutt remembered

    Manchester resident Don Northcutt, a well known local artist who came to AEDC in 1952 to work as a technical artist, has died.For 40 years, Northcutt rendered scenes of Middle Tennessee into timeless images that will preserve old barns, country stores, train depots and homesteads long after they've

  • AEDC’s Rita Bell retires after a long and rewarding career at Tunnel 9

    Rita Bell, the data reduction and computer software mathematician at AEDC's Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 facility in White Oak, Md., is retiring after a long career spanning more than 40 years."Rita Bell was a member of a three-person data reduction team at the Naval Surface Weapons Center White Oak Wind

  • AEDC’s Mitch Turrentine volunteers with local PEN Foundation

    Mitch Turrentine, an ATA Flight Systems Plant Operations engineer, is someone who has known what he wants out of life from an early age.Turrentine first came to AEDC as a co-op student when he began pursuing his college education at Motlow State Community College. He soon transferred, first to

  • Team AEDC takes an active role in 30th Mach Tenn Triathlon

    Close to 20 Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) employees recently participated in the 30th Mach Tenn Triathlon, an event with many ties to the Air Force base where much of the swim-bike-run race is held."The Mach Tenn Triathlon originated more than 30 years ago," said Melissa Miller, the

  • AEDC engineers earn graduate degrees from UTSI

    University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) students who had earned their graduate degrees since summer 2011 were recognized at a reception held in their honor May 7. This year's guest speaker was Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) General Manager Steve Pearson, who used James Madison and Alexander

  • Arnold Community Council members visit Congress in support of AEDC

    Arnold Community Council (ACC) members recently made their annual trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with elected officials and staffers about Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC).Early in the planning for this trip, the group knew they wanted to garner Congressional support for AEDC and

  • AFMC command chief reflects on 30-year career 'adventure'

    Air Force Materiel Command's top enlisted sergeant will end his military career June 1, 2012, bringing to a close a career that he says launched a "great adventure" around the world.Chief Master Sgt. Eric Jaren, AFMC's command chief, will say goodbye during a retirement ceremony at the National