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  • Wilhite earns Meritorious Service Medal following successful tour

    Cmdr. David Wilhite, the Arnold Air Force Base Simplified Acquisition Base Engineering Requirements program manager, was recently recognized for his achievements upon completing a two-year tour as Commanding Officer of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 14 (NMCB-14), a Reserve Navy Seabee

  • Arnold Fire and Emergency Services highly trained special rescue team

    The Arnold Air Force Base Fire and Emergency Services is a fully certified fire department, with all personnel trained in the core competencies of firefighting and emergency response, including specialized rescue training.Because of the industrial nature of much of the work that takes place at the

  • AEDC stands up ICBM Combined Test Force at Hill Air Force Base

    The growth of AEDC’s critical role in providing the United States Armed Forces with developmental test and evaluation support for the newest and premier weapon systems continues with the stand up of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Combined Test Force (CTF) to support modernization and

  • 2018 Safety Focus Campaign announced

    The topics for the NAS 2018 Safety Focus Campaign have been announced. This campaign is a follow-up to the successful 2017 Safety Condition Campaign. During the 2017 campaign, employees identified over 800 unsafe or non-compliant conditions at various AEDC locations and, at this time, have

  • Tunnel 9 moves closer to 360-degree TSP capability

    The team at AEDC Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 in White Oak, Maryland, has for some time considered a 360-degree capability for tests involving temperature-sensitive paint, or TSP, and has worked for about a year on ways to achieve it.Thanks to recent innovations developed after a customer’s need

  • AEDC teams assist in preparing the Dream Chaser for its future missions

    The Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser space plane recently had a successful free-flight test over the Mojave Desert in California, later making its landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California.The Hypersonic CTF at Edwards AFB is managed by AEDC, which is headquartered at Arnold Air Force

  • AEDC Tunnel 9 team members taking initiative in STEM outreach

    AEDC supports many Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) efforts throughout middle Tennessee impacting nearly 19,000 students in more than 60 schools since 2013 and has a program dedicated to STEM at Arnold Air Force Base.But the STEM efforts don’t stop in Middle Tennessee, the

  • AEDC team working to achieve FIAR compliance

    Over the past eight months, AEDC team members have been preparing inventory records for audit by certified public accountants as a part of the Department of Defense Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) Program. Program priorities were established in August 2009 and require DOD