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  • Louis Vanacore named new ATA investments director

    Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) General Manager Dr. David Elrod recently announced that ATA has appointed Louis Vanacore as the contractor's new Director of the Projects and Design Engineering Department, also known as Investments. With more than 30 years of engineering and project management

  • Carol Pratt looks back on her life - a labor of love

    Benjamin Franklin once said, "He that can have patience can have what he will." As a government budget analyst at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) and a mother, Carol Pratt knows a lot about the virtues of patience. She said both her profession and being a parent require patience,

  • New vice commander sees Arnold assignment as great opportunity

    Coming from a strictly aircraft maintenance background, Col. Eugene Mittuch, Arnold's new vice commander, was somewhat surprised when he found out his next assignment would be at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC). "My first impression so far is that this place is very impressive," he

  • Arnold public web site has new look, features

    In May, the Air Force unveiled a new look for its official Web sites, and the Arnold public Web site migrated to that new look July 27. For frequent visitors to the Arnold site, the changes are obvious at a glance. The site features a larger layout, larger photos, new technology and less clutter.

  • Morris Ferry Dock to temporarily close for upgrade work

    The Morris Ferry Dock boat ramp on Woods Reservoir will be closed temporarily from Aug. 3 - 13 due to maintenance work to clear trees and brush. In February 2009, Morris Ferry Dock officially re-opened after the U.S. Air Force, Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (TWRA) and Franklin County officials

  • Minuteman III replacement program wraps up

    Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) engineers wrapped up testing of the Propulsion Replacement Program (PRP) for Minuteman III rocket motors in the center's J-6 test cell last week. The J-6 facility, which was built in 1994, is used for testing large rocket motors at simulated altitudes up

  • Christie LaPoint leads by example

    In 2007, when Christie LaPoint stepped off the plane onto the hot tarmac at Balad Air Base in northern Iraq, the Houston native felt like she already knew the place. LaPoint, the most recent addition to Aerospace Testing Alliance's Operations Center at Arnold Engineering Development Center, was no

  • Commander's childhood dream comes true at Arnold

    New Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Commander Col. Michael Panarisi's dream job as a child was to be an engineer. Being accepted to MIT was the beginning of that dream until the colonel realized he would not be able to afford the tuition. However, a childhood mentor advised him to think

  • AEDC reaches major milestone with hypersonic engine testing

    A 10-year effort to upgrade a high speed, high temperature, blow-down ground test facility at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) culminated in a recent hypersonic Mach 6 test run on a state-of-the-art combined-cycle engine demonstrator. "This test was significant," said Matthew Bond, test