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  • AFMC creates Governance Structure to oversee reorganization

    Air Force Materiel Command is using a dedicated process to guide the command's planned restructure from 12 centers to five.According to a charter approved by AFMC Commander Gen. Donald Hoffman, the AFMC Reorganization Implementation Governance Structure guides the development, coordination,

  • Students put skills to the test in design competition

    The idea of creating an elevator that can reach space is daunting enough. Doing it with materials that may have been worth less than the box they came in is even more so.But several area high school students took on the task at this year's Student Design Competition, held at the Hands-On Science

  • AEDC’s Tunnel 9 team implements major facility upgrade during busy year

    A short break during a busy time at the Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel 9 facility at White Oak, Md., has provided an opportunity to replace the facility's 30-year-old transformer."After a successful test series for missile defense and in advance of a multi-year test campaign for the Conventional Prompt

  • Jere Matty retiring after 30 years at AEDC

    For Jere Matty, working at Arnold Engineering Development Center was a perfect fit. He literally saw the writing on the wall on his first day.The wall was a stall in a bathroom at the von Kármán Gas Dynamics facility. The writing was a differential equation someone had been working on."At a pilot

  • Suggestion earns award for employee, cost savings for AEDC

    A suggestion that will save Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) $23,548 annually and earned an employee cash award through the Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) Ideas in Action Suggestion Program required innovative thinking by Marty Gordon.Gordon, a software engineer for ATA, was recognized

  • AEDC's Crawford Parrish aims high

    Crawford Parrish has always aimed high, both literally and spiritually. "I wanted to learn to fly from the time I was very young," said Parrish, AEDC's Capabilities Analysis and Risk Assessment manager. "The Air Force seemed an obvious route so I pursued it. It probably had a lot to do with growing

  • 2012 Engineer-for-a-Day event brings back memories

    "The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good." L. Sprague de Camp, science fiction writer and Navy aeronautical engineerThis year National Engineers Week takes place Feb. 19-25. During one of the

  • AEDC junior officer’s council supports Teens for Jeans

    With help from AEDC's Company Grade Officer's Council (CGOC) and others, the Franklin County High School's "Teens for Jeans" Drive was a success.A couple of weeks ago, 2nd Lt. Matthew Karczewski, a hypersonic propulsion test engineer for AEDC's Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) and CGOC