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  • Mental Health Awareness Month: Resources available for those in need of help

    Each May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness for mental health, as the name implies, but also to promote mental illness education and support.Lee Smith, Arnold Engineering Development Complex Community Support coordinator, said the goals of Mental Health Awareness Month

  • Continuous Evaluation program in place to ensure secure operations

    Military personnel, government employees and contractors across Arnold Engineering Development Complex are subject to enrollment in Continuous Evaluation, or CE, which is an ongoing screening process to review the background of individuals tasked with sensitive duties or those eligible to access

  • AEDC announces 70th anniversary open house

    Members of the community are invited to help the men and women of the Arnold Engineering Development Complex celebrate the organization’s 70th anniversary.The “Hap Arnold Day” 70th Anniversary Celebration will take place at Arnold Air Force Base, where AEDC is headquartered, on June 26 from noon to

  • Kangas hopes STEM outreach buds greater interest among area students

    Heather Kangas has made it her mission to take science, technology, engineering and math - otherwise known as STEM - beyond photos, charts and text and bring it to life for children living in close vicinity to Holloman Air Force Base. “I think it’s important just because not everybody’s been exposed

  • Wildflowers bloom at Arnold AFB

    The first week of May each year is recognized as National Wildflower Week, a celebration started by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. According to the center’s website, the observance began in 1987 “to celebrate the beauty and importance of native wildflowers across the United States.”The

  • AEDC supporting Golden Horde testing

    The 586th Flight Test Squadron, Detachment 1, a unit of the 704th Test Group of Arnold Engineering Development Complex, is currently supporting one of the Air Force Vanguard programs – Golden Horde.Vanguards, part of the Air Force 2030 Science and Technology Strategy, are focused on advancing

  • AEDC critical to fielding DARPA OpFires

    Critical testing for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program was recently completed in Arnold Engineering Development Complex test facilities.  This testing supported the DARPA Operational Fires, or OpFires, program, and was completed in October 2020 in the von Kármán Gas Dynamics

  • Cadets get a closer look at possible future during Arnold AFB visit

    With the beginning of their Air Force careers rapidly approaching, four future Airmen visited Arnold Air Force Base March 18 and 19 to get an up-close look at the types of work they may soon be performing and hear directly from some who were once in their shoes to help them better prepare for the

  • Arnold FES urges springtime fire safety

    Flowers are blooming, and the birds are singing. The sun is setting later as the sound of children playing and lawnmowers whirring resonate through neighborhoods. Winter is over. Spring has sprung.The longer days and pleasant weather mean more people are going to be spending more time outside over