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  • Team AEDC participates in Battlefield Day exercise

    Team AEDC members took to the "battlefield" Aug. 15 to test their fitness.Battlefield Day, put together by the AEDC Fitness Center once a year, is a series of events designed to push competitors' level of fitness. Participants competed in relays and sprints, hit a 170-pound tire with a hammer and

  • AEDC removed from consideration for EPA National Priorities List

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency has decided to remove Arnold Engineering Development Complex from consideration for the agency's National Priorities List.Effective March 15 the EPA removed Arnold AFB from consideration for the list, which is a compilation of hazardous waste sites

  • Everett becomes a Certified Homeland Protection Professional

    David Everett, a plans and programs officer with the Arnold Air Force Base police department, recently earned the designation of Certified Homeland Protection Professional (CHPP) by the National Sheriffs' Association, Center for Public Safety in partnership with the National Domestic Preparedness

  • AFMC promotes ‘Colorful Choices’ in September

    During the month of September, Air Force Materiel Command will be promoting its 'Colorful Choices: Fruit and Veggie Initiative.'September is National Fruit and Vegetables Month, an excellent time to revisit these bright and colorful powerhouses of a healthy nutrition plan. Eating the recommended

  • AEDC workers take part in STEM workshop

    AEDC workers are getting the tools they need to inspire young minds and encourage students to consider careers in engineering.Seventeen AEDC and Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) employees and four local teachers visited the Challenger/STEM Center at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga Aug. 2-3,

  • NFAC team conducts ‘game-changing’ technology test for NASA

    AEDC's National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex at Moffett Field, Calif., is the site of an ongoing pioneering test campaign supporting NASA's Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) project. HIAD, described as a round, stacked series of "high-tech inner tubes," is under development as a

  • Team AEDC celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

    As news broke of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) "Curiosity" rover's successful landing on the "Red Planet" Aug. 6, a number of people affiliated with the Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) were paying close attention to the story."Curiosity" is the most highly advanced, mobile robot

  • AEDC's Tunnel 9 director celebrates the landing of NASA's Mars Science Lab

    As news broke of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) "Curiosity" rover's successful landing on the "Red Planet" Aug. 6, Arnold Engineering Development Complex's (AEDC) Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 Director Dan Marren was watching the live TV broadcast of the event."Last night, after eight months of