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  • Local community leader selected to attend the National Security Forum

    Franklin County resident and Tullahoma business owner, Mike Niederhauser, has received and accepted a personal invitation from the Secretary of the Air Force to attend the 57th Annual National Security Forum (NSF) at the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. The purpose of NSF is to

  • Suggestions save money for AEDC, earn awards for employees

    At Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), ideas can truly lead to action, as well as rewards for employees and savings for the company. Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA) Ideas in Action suggestion program implemented one employee-generated suggestion in March, which should result in an

  • ATA managers receive CPR training

    Aerospace Testing Alliance's (ATA) senior leadership team is now 100 percent trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and in the use of automated external defibrillators (AED). The training, conducted by Tony Rollins of ATA Safety and Health, occurred in multiple sessions, the most recent of

  • Arnold AFB staff rallies for flood response

    For the next week, the Nashville disaster relief sites have been declared an alternate place of duty for all Department of Defense employees at Arnold Engineering Development Center. Acting upon requests from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency, AEDC Commander, Col. Michael T. Panarisi, called

  • The other electrical hazard; AEDC's arc flash safety program gets high marks

    An arc flash can happen in less than a thousandth of a second, causing substantial damage, fire and death. A dramatic example of this phenomenon is a lightning strike, as often seen during a thunderstorm. Equally dangerous is the type of arc flash that can occur at industrial complexes like AEDC.An

  • In-Person with Derrick Hinton

    Derrick Hinton, principal staff assistant and adviser to the director of Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) visited Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) April 7 - 9 as part of a NASA-DoD Aeronautics Facilities Users Meeting.This meeting is a result of the NASA and DoD National

  • Ramesh Gulati, AEDC best practices result in book

    Ramesh Gulati, asset management and reliability planning manager with Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), has been called an "ambassador" for Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). That's because everywhere he goes - both inside and outside the company - he tries to create a "reliability

  • Tom Irvine: NASA's vision for collaboration with AEDC

    During the recent Aeronautics Test Facilities Users Meeting at Arnold Engineering Development Center, the deputy associate administer for the aeronautics research missions directorate at NASA headquarters took some time to share his vision for the agency's future.Tom Irvine, who has been involved

  • ATA honored for focus on continuing education

    Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), AEDC's operating partner, is being honored for encouraging continuing education among its program managers. The Nashville chapter of the Program Management Institute (PMI) has named ATA its Corporate Sponsor of the Year for 2009. The Project Management Institute is

  • AEDC testers react to upcoming first orbital flight test of X-37

    The U.S. Air Force-Boeing X-37B orbital test vehicle (OTV) is set to launch into space atop an Atlas V booster from Cape Canaveral, Fla., April 21. The upcoming launch has caught the attention of engineers, technicians and craftsmen at AEDC who supported the X-37 program over the years."It's great