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  • AEDC and UTSI collaborate on cryogenic challenge

    A recently completed cryo-contamination experiment in AEDC's small ultra high vacuum (UHV) chamber, overseen by ATA's Dr. Heard Lowry III and conducted by three University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate students, is being heralded as a success.Jim Burns, AEDC's space chambers lead, initiated

  • AFRL tests Speed Agile transport vehicle concept at NFAC

    Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) researchers have embarked upon a critical set of experiments designed to test a new Short Take Off and Landing (STOL) transport vehicle concept. During this set of experiments, a 23-percent scale model is being tested in the Arnold Engineering and Development

  • Charlie Armstrong bids AEDC farewell

    In 1961, Charlie Armstrong, along with his elementary school classmates, visited the Shelbyville Fire Department. That experience left a distinct impression on Armstrong, an AEDC Fire Department firefighter crew chief who is retiring from Arnold after nearly 38 years in the profession."Shelbyville's

  • Col. Michael Brewer is new AEDC commander

    Col. Michael T. Brewer formally accepted command of the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) at Arnold Air Force Base, Tenn., Aug. 2.Colonel Brewer is the former commander of the 46th Test Wing, Air Armament Center, Eglin AFB, Fla. He received his commission in 1986 after graduating from

  • Education fair showcases opportunities for AEDC, community

    Members of the military, Department of Defense (DOD) civilians, contractors and the public showed up for the third annual Arnold education fair July 15.This was the first year the fair, which was held at the Arnold Lakeside Center (ALC), was opened up to the public.The event began three years ago to

  • Estate planning briefings a hit with work force

    Wills, powers of attorney, advance directives and living trusts are types of important legal documents that many people tend to avoid thinking about.But a portion of the Arnold Engineering Development Center work force is now better educated about those topics after almost 200 people turned out for

  • AEDC to help "feds feed families"

    The Junior Force Council (JFC) at Arnold Engineering Development Center is organizing food collection for the Feds Feed Families food drive campaign.This year's campaign theme is "Feeding Families One Fed at a Time."JFC volunteers have set up collection boxes in various buildings across base,

  • AEDC's Kirk Rutland is dancing with his star

    In 1983, before following his dream of becoming a pilot, Kirk Rutland tried something he was less comfortable with, on an impulse."I took one ballroom dancing class before I went to flight school, with a community center, kind of as a whim," said Rutland, AEDC's deputy for the maintenance division.

  • Project Management Institute organization now local

    A team effort, spearheaded by Susan Rymer, business manager for ATA's Investments Department at AEDC, recently resulted in the establishment of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Chattanooga Chapter Middle Tennessee Branch. The new branch gives local project management professionals residing in

  • AEDC's Lance Baxter helps bring scouting back

    When Lance Baxter, chief of AEDC's technology branch, volunteered to deploy to Iraq late last year, he made an interesting and unexpected discovery. Baxter, who works for the Missile and Space Intelligence Center in Huntsville in his capacity as a major in the Air Force reserves, arrived at