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  • AEDC prepares for environmental audit

    Environmental engineer Keith Carnley said the Air Force Materiel Command will send in auditors to review Arnold Engineering Development Center's environmental management system during the second week of December. They won't be auditing data systems, according to Carnley. Instead, they will assess

  • AEDC workers fill up holiday care packages for personnel deployed overseas

    On Nov. 8, Master Sgt. Andre McDowell and Staff Sgt. James Key set out a box for donations in the Logistics office at AEDC's A&E Building. They were hoping to get enough items to fill a printer paper box, which they would use to put together care packages for Air Force personnel who are currently

  • AEDC Visitors Center to close down for holidays

    A change is coming to the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Visitors Center's hours this holiday season, but according to data gathered over the last couple of years, it is a change most people probably will never notice.Starting this Thanksgiving, the Visitors Center at the main gate

  • AEDC officials, National Weather Service preparing for stormy weather

    Officials at AEDC use every tool available to keep base personnel safe, especially when the weather takes a turn for the worse.One of those tools is the National Weather Service. Emergency Management Lead Daryl Justice says he and Emergency Management Coordinator Brad Walker can always get in touch

  • Bronze bust honoring Lance Cpl. Gregory A. Posey, USMC, to be dedicated

    U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Gregory A. Posey gave his last measure of devotion to his country on a battlefield in Afghanistan.Now, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) employees are showing their devotion to Lance Corporal Posey by unveiling a bronze

  • Mosley: a family looks back on a shared experience

    "Teach a youth about the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6)In 1951, Robert Mosley Jr., now 80, took a short break from working outside on a hot summer day to look around the site where the U.S. Air Force's Air Engineering Development Center was taking

  • AEDC's Charles Easley recognized as a Hometown Hero

    In 2003, when Master Sgt. Charles Easley looked out the window of the C-131 as the pilot rapidly brought the plane down onto the runway of the darkened Baghdad International Airport, he felt excited at the prospect of entering a country the U.S. and allied forces had just invaded, landing while

  • AEDC reduces customer power costs by almost $5 million

    AEDC averted a $4.86 million energy bill for its customers with a program called night operations or "night ops." As part of night ops, tests that require the most energy consumption are done during the evening and into the morning of the next day when power is cheaper and more readily available.