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  • 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

  • AEDC firefighters push injured girl in 5K race

    Arnold Engineering Development Center Assistant Fire Chief George DeShields and Firefighter Anthony Jimcoily finished the Nov. 5 Snyder Foundation's Cops and Kids 5K Run/Walk in Smyrna with a time of 34:50, a respectable time for many runners. The time was particularly satisfying for DeShields and

  • Memories for the 60th anniversary

    I was fortunate to start work at AEDC when the Air Force decided to add space testing to their complex of test facilities. I studied the physics of condensation and published a paper on the topic. It was read by Ken Templemeyer who was in charge of developing the space chambers. At issue was the

  • AEDC employee coaches LEGO® League teams

    These aren't your father's LEGOs®, but your father probably didn't participate in LEGO League.FIRST® LEGO League (FLL®) is a robotics program for ages 9-14, which is designed to get children excited about science and technology and teach them valuable employment and life skills. FIRST represents the