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  • AEDC's Sheila Trent remembered

    Lynn Armer spent almost 20 years working at AEDC with Sheila Trent, but they became more than coworkers.Their work friendship grew from sharing different foods in the office that they made at home to going out together to pick out family dogs. Armer's sons helped out at the Trent family's farm,

  • Be proud of your role this Independence Day

    On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, starting the colonies on the path to freedom. The next day, John Adams wrote to his wife, describing the time as "the most memorable epoch in the history of America" and saying he was "apt to believe that it will be

  • AFMC anniversary highlights 20 years of command's warfighter support

    The warfighter need for streamlined logistics support and expertise in science, technology, research, development and testing launched the creation of Air Force Materiel Command, which marks its 20th anniversary on July 1, 2012. "AFMC supports the entire spectrum of the Air Force mission, and 20

  • AFMC ready to transition to 5-center construct

    With three major milestones complete, Air Force Materiel Command officials are ready to consolidate the number of centers as part of its command-wide transition to the 5-Center construct.Centers will be activated at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio and Tinker AFB, Okla., in the coming weeks. At Edwards

  • 2012 AEDC Fellows announced

    AEDC will induct a new AEDC Fellow, a Lifetime Achievement Fellow and the first Craftsman Fellow at the annual AEDC Fellows Banquet June 25.Dr. Robert S. Hiers III is the newest AEDC Fellow, joining 64 others selected for the honor since the program began in 1989.The AEDC Lifetime Achievement Fellow

  • Chemical and Metallurgical Lab supports wide variety of functions at AEDC

    It's fitting that a facility that deals in elements plays such an elemental role in what goes on at AEDC.Almost every worker at AEDC depends on the Chemical and Metallurgical Lab at one point or another as they perform their duties.The lab's chemists and metallurgical experts help keep facility

  • 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