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  • Test cell that helped put man on moon completed 60 years ago

    The Satellite Rocket Test Cell still stands above much of the surrounding landscape at Arnold Air Force Base, serving as a reminder of the work performed across the installation to not only ensure national defense but to meet a goal as lofty as the cell’s stature – landing Americans on the moon. The

  • Team AEDC Frontlines: Steve Macon

    Editor’s note: The Team AEDC Frontlines series is a recurring feature that puts the spotlight on some of the members of Team AEDC on the “frontlines” supporting our mission, people and families during the COVID-19 crisis.Steve Macon is regarded by his colleagues as the face of fire prevention at

  • Arnold AFB Airmen support combatant commanders

    Arnold Engineering Development Complex team members work together day-in, day-out to execute the mission of testing systems that ensure the U.S. military maintains superiority over foes. This mission is often focused on the future fight, but Airmen assigned to AEDC also deploy to support combatant

  • AEDC names Wing-level Sijan Leadership Award winners

    Arnold Engineering Development Complex senior leadership announced the 2020 Lance P. Sijan Award Winners for AEDC on July 21.The award, first given at the Air Force level in 1981, recognizes Airmen who demonstrate the highest qualities of leadership in the performance of their duties and in their

  • AEDC and NAVAIR work together to establish Remote Data Room

    Sitting in front of a computer screen in the Propulsion Systems Evaluation Facility (PSEF) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, also known as PAX, some 700 miles away, PSEF test engineer Leo Rubio speaks to analysts and monitors test data as if he was actually in the control room at Arnold

  • Arnold AFB Gate Screening Procedure Change

    Starting 17 July, all persons, to include service members, dependents, civilian employees, retirees, contractors, and individuals unaffiliated with the DoD, who meet any of the following criteria, at any point within the 14 days prior to attempted entry, will be denied access to Arnold AFB.

  • Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing

    Drive-Thru COVID-19 Testing for anyone who has base accessJuly 17, 2020 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.100 Kindle Drive (The loop in front of Building 100) Arnold Air Force Base will be hosting drive-thru Covid-19 testing with the TN Department of Health and the TN National Guard. All personnel must have base

  • Bonner assumes AEDC Test Division chief post

    When Col. Ernest Lincoln Bonner and his own family needed it most, they received an outpouring of support from his Air Force family.“Our wing, group and squadron, they picked up every mission responsibility I dropped with literally no notice,” Bonner said. “They helped us take care of our oldest

  • Arnold AFB test teams maintain mission focus through COVID-19 constraints

    Most teams at Arnold Engineering Development Complex tasked with carrying out work critical to national security, for a period of time, did not have a full complement of personnel on hand.Precautions requiring adherence, such as team members maintaining a proper distance from one another and the use

  • Arnold machinists continue work to support AEDC mission, national defense

    Test operations across Arnold Engineering Development Complex are not possible without the proper components for the test facilities. Those overseeing testing rely on craft personnel within the Complex to provide the consumable parts necessary to accommodate customers and accomplish the mission.