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  • Curtis Allen selected for chief master sergeant

    Senior Master Sgt. Curtis W. Allen has earned the highest enlisted rank in the Air Force - chief master sergeant.Chief master sergeants make up only one percent of the total enlisted population, adding prestige to the promotion.It means Sergeant Allen, who is the Maintenance Division superintendent

  • Reflections on a 41-year career in the aerospace industry

    Even many adults do not seem to know what they want to do when they grow up. But Randy Simpson knew from an early age he wanted to be become an engineer in the aerospace industry."As a baby boomer growing up in the late 50s and early 60s, I watched with great interest as our fledgling space program

  • AEDC lighting improvements also save energy

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is continuing to implement an Air Force directive to "make energy a consideration in all that we do."One of the most visible energy-saving upgrades is to interior lighting for buildings on base. For example, the new lighting system in the Engine Test

  • Arnold Police participate in "active shooter" training

    Arnold Air Force Base Police Department (APD) should be better prepared to deal with an active shooter after completing recent up-to-date training.APD officers and Tullahoma policemen completed the training Oct. 4-15 at Tullahoma High School while students and teachers were on fall break.Lt. Buck

  • AEDC receives environmental award

    As a major environmental cleanup project at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) is starting to wind down, the work being done to restore the environment here is getting some prestigious recognition.The base recently earned the Air Force Gen. Thomas D. White Environmental Restoration Program

  • Longest-running jet engine test at AEDC is complete

    Engineers at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) reached a mission-critical performance and evaluation testing milestone on the most widely used advanced technology fighter engine in the world."The year-long F100 Accelerated Mission Test (AMT) in SL-3 achieved a

  • UTSI student receives ITEA scholarship, works with AEDC team on experiment

    James Rogers, a second-year aerospace engineering graduate student at the University of Tennessee Space Institute (UTSI), got a pleasant surprise at a recent Arnold Professional Society lunch and learn event at the Arnold Lakeside Center.Prior to a presentation from Ted Fecke, Senior Leader for

  • AEDC's predictive maintenance team lauded with prestigious award

    AEDC's predictive maintenance program has won the 2010 Uptime® Magazine Best Overall Predictive Maintenance Program award.In an e-mail sent to AEDC's leadership, Terrence O'Hanlon, the publisher of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime® Magazine, said, "Your team has a great deal to be proud of as reaching

  • AEDC Fire Department conducts extrication training

    The Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fire Department is now on the "cutting edge" of vehicle extrication technology. Firefighters used their rescue equipment, including a new metal-cutting saw, on a variety of vehicles during annual training conducted Nov. 8-10 at LKQ Salvage in

  • Safety emphasis “Changing Direction” for the season

    Coming off a highly successful safety campaign this summer called "Break the Cycle," Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), the operating contractor at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) wants to "Change Direction" this fall and winter.With ATA, the number of slips, trips and falls generally