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  • AEDC Spotlight: Michelle Sutton takes on AEDC career step-by-step

    For 37 years, Michelle Sutton, a senior financial management specialist with the AEDC Financial Management and Comptroller Division, has taken different steps to her current job title, beginning with her first AEDC job as a Stay-in-School.The SIS program is designed to provide students an experience

  • Small businesses turn out for NAS outreach session

    More than 75 small business representatives from across Tennessee and Alabama turned out for the National Aerospace Solutions Small Business Outreach event held June 22 at the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center.The event was co-hosted by the Manchester, Franklin County and Tullahoma Chambers

  • NAS assumes operations at AEDC

    As of 12:01 a.m., July 1 the new contractor overseeing the Test Operations and Sustainment (TOS) contract at Arnold Engineering Development Complex is National Aerospace Solutions, LLC.NAS is a limited liability corporation represented by Bechtel National, Inc., GP Strategies, and Sierra Lobo,

  • Keeping wind tunnels running at peak capability important to AEDC

    During the early 1950s, AEDC began to stand-up a new and much larger wind tunnel testing facility than was available anywhere else in the nation at the time. To power this state-of-the-art 16 foot test cell to Mach speeds, the world's largest electric motors ever built were designed and fabricated.

  • AEDC beginnings remembered during the 65th anniversary

    When Gen. Henry "Hap" Arnold realized the potential for an air engineering facility that would advance the Army Air Corps air power development, it was the beginning of AEDC history.It wasn't until June 25, 1951, that Arnold's vision, "An Air Force Second to None," was taking shape in Middle

  • AIAA Tennessee Section presents annual awards

    The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Tennessee Section held an annual awards luncheon at the Arnold Lakeside Center, June 2, where professional engineers were recognized for their significant technical accomplishments, outstanding achievements and support to AIAA Section