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  • AEDC contractor award fee announced

    Air Force officials announced the award fee for the Arnold Engineering Development Center's (AEDC) support contractor, Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA), today for the period April 1 through Sept. 30, 2008. The award fee determining official, AEDC Commander Col. Art Huber, approved an award fee of

  • AEDC and Edwards teams, UTSI Professor win Tennessee AIAA section awards

    The local Tennessee American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) section recently held its 2008 awards ceremony at the ALC. Awards presented included the Hap Arnold award, two Billy J. Griffith awards, a special award and the AIAA Booster award. The General Henry H "Hap" Arnold Award,

  • New executive director named

    Michael Britt Covington is AEDC's new executive director. In this role, Covington will be responsible for assisting the center commander in overseeing the daily operations of Arnold. Covington, who reports for duty at AEDC Monday, comes from Tinker AFB, Okla., where he was the technical director for

  • Jessica McNeese - a woman with healing in her heart

    As a child Jessica McNeese always said she was going to be a doctor. Later in life, another goal emerged, but her interest in helping people remained. "I wanted to take care of people - I'm a very mothering kind of person," she said. "I thought I'd be a doctor, but I didn't want to take the call

  • AEDC collaboration with Redstone pays off

    A collaborative effort initiated by a team at AEDC's Precision Measurement Equipment Lab (PMEL) has resulted in the successful renovation of two major metrology assets for DoD customers of the Army's Primary Standards Laboratory (APSL) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. In 2006, James

  • Arnold receives 'excellence' award for sixth time

    Air Force officials announced Monday that Arnold Engineering Development Center is a winner of the 2008 Air Force Organizational Excellence Award (AFOEA) for work accomplished June 1, 2006 - May 31, 2008. This is the sixth time AEDC has received this unit award; the last being in 1998. Created in

  • Navy officer docks it after 36 years

    It was the summer of '68 and the draft was in full swing. He stood in line to receive his draft physical. The Army corporal sternly managed the long line of draftees. He happens to notice a Navy recruiter walking by out of the corner of his eye. Like a cocky, undisciplined 18 year old, he grabbed

  • Engineers help demilitarize aging rockets

    Recently, Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) played a role in the environmentally-safe destruction of an aging Army Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) rocket motor in the center's J-6 rocket motor test facility. El Dorado Engineering (EDE), of Salt Lake City, Utah, came to AEDC with a