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  • Parker leaving his mark on AEDC

    When J.Y. Parker first came to Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) as a young engineer not long out of Auburn University, he expected to spend a few years getting a master's degree from the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI) and return to Huntsville, Ala., where he previously

  • AEMTC re-elects officers to another term

    The Air Engineering Metal Trades Council (AEMTC) re-elected all its current principal officers to serve another term Nov. 22.Serving another term in office are AEMTC President Jimmy Dale Nance, Vice President Jay Vandergriff, Recording Secretary Reina Shanks and Secretary Treasurer Annette

  • The engineering process: at work and home

    For most of us, we chose an engineering career to fulfill our interest and desire to understand how things work and how to make them work better. We immerse ourselves into the "engineering process" and focus all our energies to this work each day of our lives. Many professionals today, including

  • ATA announces award fee

    The Air Force announced an award fee rating of 94 for the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) operating contractor, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), for the period April 1-Sept. 30, 2011. The award fee determining official (FDO), Randall D. Culpepper, gave the contractor high marks with

  • AEMTC premium reductions to save approximately $1.2 million

    The Air Engineering Metal Trades Council (AEMTC) at Arnold Engineering Development Center has announced it will save its members and their employer, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), hundreds of thousands of dollars in fiscal year 2012.Trustees for the Aerospace Contractors Trust (ACT) voted Nov. 7

  • OSI needs help identifying fraud activities

    Benjamin Franklin once said, "There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily fall than that of defrauding the government." As the Department of Defense come to grips with a constrained fiscal environment, for now and the foreseeable future, an even higher premium is

  • AEDC leads the way with data acquisition technology upgrade validation

    A recent ribbon-cutting ceremony at AEDC's J-1 turbine engine test cell marked a major milestone, signifying the validation of an Engine Data Acquisition and Processing System (EDAPS) upgrade.Melissa Tate, Test Systems Division/ Aeropropulsion Systems Project Section (TTSIB) Investments Air Force

  • AEDC's largest aircraft model ready for future testing

    An ongoing store separation test on "smart weapons" from the bomb bay of a new 10-percent scale B-52H model in AEDC's 16-foot transonic propulsion wind tunnel (16T) rightly has the attention of test engineers.Prior to the test, all eyes were on AEDC designers, schedulers and machinists as they

  • Cooler weather ushers in cold and flu season

    Every year about this time, the number of patients seen at the Aerospace Testing Alliance/Comprehensive Occupational Resources (ATA/CORE) Dispensary at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) begins to increase. It's the unofficial beginning of cold and flu season.The Dispensary provides